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Don Siegel's EDGE OF ETERNITY is a Technicolor Neo Noir, a B-Movie Potboiler and a Novelty Film using actual footage of (and being based around) The Grand Canyon... where at the crest, a murder takes place before the body's mysteriously hung in a small rural connecting town's vacant office... where good deputy Cornel Wilde investigates what's also a partial Mystery/Whodunnit...
Although there aren't many juicy culprits to choose from, the most obvious being otherwise affable bartender Mickey Shaughnessy, who has played so many energetically cutthroat villains, he can't be what he seems (the same going for chain-smoking Canyon custodian Jack Elam)...
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his performance is low-key likeable, Wilde's scene-by-scene detective-work is the best thing going... but too much time's spent on a distracting romance with beautiful redhead Victoria Shaw, initially important as she'd driven dangerously down winding roads past Wilde... right before he could investigate a location where the body turned up...
So technically, she could have provided a great 11th hour deliberately-distracting femme-fatale twist but, instead, the always capable (and later iconic) director goes for an anticipated Grand Canyon mile-high cable-bucket brawl that should have lasted longer since everything's leading to the famous location: making EDGE OF ETERNITY more entertaining travelogue filler than an effectively-intense theatrical thriller.
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| Year: 1959 Rating: *** |
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