A lighthouse keeper has been murdered in mysterious circumstances and, during the ensuing investigation a Phantom Light keeps appearing at the scene of his death.A lighthouse keeper has been murdered in mysterious circumstances and, during the ensuing investigation a Phantom Light keeps appearing at the scene of his death.A lighthouse keeper has been murdered in mysterious circumstances and, during the ensuing investigation a Phantom Light keeps appearing at the scene of his death.
Anthony Holles
- Mr. Mason
- (uncredited)
Ernest Jay
- Railway Worker
- (uncredited)
Vi Kaley
- Woman in Pub
- (uncredited)
John Singer
- Cabin Boy
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaWhen Alice Bright (Binnie Hale) remarks that she had just been performing in a play, Sam Higgins (Gordon Harker) retorts, "East Lynne?" This is a reference to the oft produced play and movie of Mrs. Henry Wood's novel of the same name. "East Lynne" was enjoyed for its mad plot and frequently incomprehensible dialogue.
- GoofsSam Higgins arrives at Tan y Bwlch to take a boat to the North Stack lighthouse offshore. Both places exist but are about 60 miles apart. Tan y Bwlch is on the shore of a reservoir, not the sea, and North Stack lighthouse, on the isle of Anglesey, is onshore, not off.
- Quotes
Alice Bright: Mr Higgins. I'm going to tell you the truth. I'm an actress, hiding from the police.
Sam Higgins: What, you act as bad as all that?
- ConnectionsFeatured in Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger (2024)
Featured review
The terror of the lighthouse in the fog leading ships to wreckage, with madmen in charge of the casualties
Michael Powell's genius is exploding in wondrous innovations and marvels of imagination already in this early film about Wales. The introduction sets the mood, when a Welsh woman as the station master comes to greet a train with its passenger, the new lighthouse guard, in a fantastic local rural costume like a witch and speaking no word of English but only Welsh,. The hysterical intrigues and events are very much reminding of Hitchcock's "Number Seventeen" three years earlier, the same kind of mix of terror and madness, eccentrics and cluster of colliding events, getting grimmer all the time, but the local atmosphere is the dominating charm. It's about wreckers using the local people's readiness for superstition to operate their wicked business, Hitchcock was to use the same theme in "Jamaica Inn" four years later, and both films are equally successful and irresistibly charming and exciting. There is no Charles Laughton and Maureen O'Hara here, but instead you have Gordon Harker who is the right man for the job, although he gets too much to handle. The story is terrific, and Michael Powell was to use much of the same vein in his later masterpiece "I Know Where I Am Going" in Scotland ten years later.
Details
- Runtime1 hour 16 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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