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The Edge Of The World [DVD]

Niall MacGinnis (Actor), Belle Chrystall (Actor), Michael Powell (Director) Rated: Universal, suitable for all Format: DVD
4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
IMDb7.3/10.0
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Format PAL, Closed-captioned
Contributor Andy Gear, John Laurie, Kitty Kirwan, Michael Powell, Niall MacGinnis, George Summers, Eric Berry, Campbell Robson, Belle Chrystall, Finlay Currie, James Garrioch, Grant Sutherland, Mima Gear See more
Language English
Runtime 1 hour and 11 minutes
Colour Color / Black & White

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THE EDGE OF THE WORLD
A film by Michael Powell

Shot over four arduous months in the wild, windswept Shetland Islands, Michael Powell's first independent production establishes the daring techniques and experimentation that would later become familiar hallmarks of his career.

The Edge of the World tells the moving story of a remote island and it's inhabitants, whose traditions and way of life are threatened by a rapidly industrialising world. To settle an argument over whether the islanders should give up their livelihood and move to the mainland, two childhood friends follow an ancient tradition and climb the island's highest cliff face. The outcome shatters the island's peace and splits the two clans apart.

Making the film proved so demanding and sensational that its 32-year-old director was moved to write a full-scale book about his obsession with the tragic grandeur of Scotland's Outer Isles and his struggle to film it, 200,000 Feet on Foula which actor Daniel Day Lewis reads from here on this DVD. Other extra features include a commentary by film critic Ian Christie and Thelma Schoonmaker, Return to the Edge of the World (1978) in which Powell returns to the island forty years later, St.Kilda Britain's Loneliest Isle, a travelogue film shot in 1928, and Michael Powell's Home Movies. The film and all bonus materials feature hard-of-hearing subtitles.

UK | 1937 | black & white | 74 minutes + 50 minutes extra material | Academy ratio 1.33:1 | Optional hard-of-hearing subtitles | Region 2 DVD

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'When I finally saw the restoration of The Edge of the World in 1990, I was struck by how it combined the influence of Flaherty...with Powell's penchant for mysticism. And already there's that sense of the experimental film present.' --Martin Scorsese

'When I finally saw the restoration of The Edge of the World in 1990, I was struck by how it combined the influence of Flaherty...with Powell's penchant for mysticism. And aleady there's that sense of the experimental film present.' --Martin Scorsese

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  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 4:3 - 1.33:1
  • Is discontinued by manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 19.1 x 13.7 x 1.5 cm; 0.28 g
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ 5035673005897
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Michael Powell
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ PAL, Closed-captioned
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 11 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ 12 Jan. 2004
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Niall MacGinnis, Belle Chrystall, John Laurie, Eric Berry, Kitty Kirwan
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Bfi
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0000CGD18
  • Country of origin ‏ : ‎ United Kingdom
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
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  • Griswold
    5.0 out of 5 stars A classic film from the thirties about the harsh reality of life on Scotland's western isles islands
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 January 2025
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    I saw this film many years ago and have often looked for it to add to my collection, The extras at the end of the film are greatly interesting.
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  • Matt.J
    5.0 out of 5 stars very good thanks
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 November 2024
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    good film
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  • Hans Wigman
    3.0 out of 5 stars Sympathetic story in a documentary style
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 December 2024
    There's a lot to like about this early Michael Powell film, which he obviously liked very much himself. Shot in 1937 and in B&W it's based on the true story of islanders forced to leave their island north of Scotland because it was becoming inhabitable. But in this film evacuation is only a final flourish, preceded by a melodramatic story: Ruth is in love with Andrew and her brother Robbie is friends with him. Robbie is arguing for leaving their island Foula as he feels it's stuck in the past and has no future, much to the chagrin of his father Peter Manson. Andrew takes Peter's side and the two young men decide to force the argument 'the old way' by climbing up freestyle up a notorious cliff. Robbie takes a wrong route, leading to a tragic accident. Andrew leaves the island as Peter won't let him wed his daughter, but returns when he learns that he's fathered a child. Finally, the islanders see the truth in Robbie's plea for which he needlessly died and they leave the island - without Peter, falling to his death mirroring his son's death.

    I quite like old films like these, showing a world that is gone. The ruggedness and beauty of the island is shown off gloriously. The small cast of professional actors, aided by the inhabitants of Foula, is very good indeed. That said, I thought the melodrama, however well put to film, rather slight and its brushstrokes too coarse: the story bounds from one season or year to another. We have hardly time to realise Ruth (unrealistically glamorous anyway) is pregnant, for example, when we see the baby surely more than 6 months old being admired by her grandads.

    So, not a great film but most definitely a sympathetic one. And while I'm not glowing with admiration I can certainly imagine why other people will.
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  • Zedman
    4.0 out of 5 stars A film of its' time, but still of interest
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 October 2016
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    This film is the work of a still young and somewhat inexperienced Michael Powell as Director, and creative driving force.
    In many ways it is more of a social document, mourning the loss of a way of subsistence living on Scotland's bleakly beautiful outermost islands.
    Filmed on Foula, it purports in the film to take place on Hirta, the largest and once permanently occupied island in the Hebridean St Kilda group.
    Michael Powell was apparently refused permission to film on St Kilda which had been evacuated by its' permanent occupants a few years before this film was made in 1936.
    With a mix of local Foula inhabitants, and a handful of professional actors including John Laurie (decades later to play Frasier in Dad's Army), the film is a little pedestrian by today's standards, but the scenery ( including towering cliffs overlooking the sea ), and the depiction of a small island community, make the film a worthwhile watch for me. Without giving away any spoilers, the plot surrounds the debate the islanders are having about whether they can remain on the island, or should they seek help to be evacuated and rehoused on the mainland.
    Despite facing the same problems as St Kilda, of many of its' younger inhabitants emigrating to the mainland or further afield, l understand that Foula still has a population of 30+ people!
    The inhabitants built their own small airfield which allowed Powell, Laurie and a couple of others involved in the original project to return to Foula to make a short rather fanciful documentary decades later.
    This is included in the extras, along with another short black and white documentary of St Kilda itself, from the thirties, probably made largely for showing in Glasgow cinemas to encourage tourist trips to that island group.
    The original feature film and docus are still in reasonable condition for their age, and subtitles in English are also available for the hard of hearing, or for bits of dialogue people are unsure of.
    Some of Scotland's outermost isles in the Hebrides, Orkneys and Shetlands have housed military and/or research centres over the decades, and this along with developments in electricity generation, radio and satellite technology, and the building/rebuilding of schools etc. has made viable some continuing occupancy by small communities once isolated for large parts of the year due to treachorous weather conditions.
    But the very basic way of life of whole communities surviving through subsistence crofting, eked out by the cottage industry of cloth production, together with some fishing, and the capturing of sea birds and their eggs from the precipitous rock faces of the cliffs, has l believe pretty much died out.
    As well, l hope, has the old feudal system of total ownership of the islands by the lairds. Some islanders l understand also had their own Gaelic dialect variations, as well as Gaelic or Norse traditions and beliefs.
    If interested, there are many books available through Amazon, about St Kilda and other island groups written by people either with first hand knowledge, or through research.
    It is a subject l admit l know very little about, but this dvd may whet your appetite for further investigation if you are not already interested in these islands, their histories and communities yourself.
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  • A. W. Wilson
    5.0 out of 5 stars THE EDGE OF THE WORLD DVD from BFI
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 December 2020
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    Never seen it in all my cinema going years, TV or Video. I ha ve missed a gem. One of a kind. A quirky very personal film, made with tremendous bravery by the cast and crew. Some of the storm/climbing scenes are unlike anything I can think of that I have seen before. Clear B/W photography all on bleak unforgiving location, the film tells the slim story of the Islanders and their daily struggles to survive, and decide if, reluctantly the island should evacuate, as living gets harder and harder. The principal roles are so well played (underplayed? there is little melodrama) by John Laurie and Finlay Currie as heads of the 2 main families. An almost unrecognisable, young Niall MacGuiness plays the young Islander who is in love with Laurie's daughter, and makes her pregnat. This was something unusual in cinema in 1937. Not married!! NO!. The whole story is told movingly and often thrillingly over 74 minutes. Good B/W prints, sound and subtitles. Intersesting extras. Not a film for everyone, but if you love cinema and want to see something unique, then, please, give this a go. It moved me to a tear (or two).
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  • Mary Crofts
    5.0 out of 5 stars excellent video, even if I did have to change ...
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 September 2015
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    excellent video, even if I did have to change my "range" on my computer screen since it is in one whatever and I'm in another. Don't understand this at all. Also don't understand why some videos and books can't be mailed to the States. Makes no sense. I'd understand it if I were ordering perfume or firecrackers or some substance that could be made into something harmful. But why one book and not another? And why one DVD and not another? I've gone thru the various "helps" on the computer that are supposed to help me understand this, but all they are is more confusing. I want to order more from amazon.uk but will be limited by this "rule".
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  • Marc
    5.0 out of 5 stars Beau film de ce grand David Lean !
    Reviewed in France on 4 May 2021
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    Bien reçu mon paquet.Bons délais.
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