The director Vernon Sewell clearly had a great love of the sea and he made a number of films featuring it.This is a rather threadbare production featuring escaped criminals who arrive on a lighthouse whilst escaping from a bank robbery.They gradually take it over with the help of the crew except for the Captain,who refuses to be a part of the escape.Eventually he is killed.The crew and robbers make their escape in a dinghy.However they fall out and in the end only 2 are left.It is a fairly average second feature of its era and I suppose its main asset is its brevity.Maybe not one of Hammeers best efforts but quite entertaining at times.
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Average thriller
GeoSlv11 July 2011
A rare Hammer film not available commercially now. It's an average quality black and white production about criminals taking over a light house on an island. The title refers to that light being put out. The lighthouse crew think they are rescuing survivors of a sunken boat. These are bank robbers trying to escape, and a conflict ensues. The story develops in flashback style, when a passing yacht discovers what looks like an abandoned lighthouse. They investigate and find it deserted. Then the film shifts to a previous day (without making that clear to the viewer) and we see what happened. It's an interesting location and theme, and is adequately produced, but not an important film.
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