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Reviews of The Edge of the World (1937)

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Reviews:-

• Fascinating trivia (and any goofs) connected with the film
• All location & studio details known

• Contemporary Review - March 13th, 1937
• Contemporary Review - Picture Show, August 14th, 1937
• Contemporary Review - Letter to Picturegoer, December 25th, 1937
• Contemporary Review - World-Radio, 24 & 31 March 1939
  Could this be the first TV screening of a Michael Powell film?
• Contemporary Review - Picture Show, August 21st, 1948 (Reissue)

• Belle Chrystall
• Review from The New York Times 9th January 2000
• 'Edge of World' still cuts it
• Michael Powell Coming Into His Own
• The Communal Balancing Act (Chicago Reader)
• Review from The Nation
• Review from Village Voice
• Review from The Christian Science Monitor
• Sharing peak times with Powell By Alastair Dunnett; The Scotsman; September 1, 1997
• Review by Scott Tobias
• 1938 Review - The New Republic
• End of the Line
• Review from The New York Times - 25 September 1999
• 1938 Review of "200,000 feet on Foula"
• TV Guide review
• "Radio Times" film guide
• Powell's Poetry
• Movie-making experience on remote site changed lives
• St Kilda on film
• Foula: The Edge of the World
• Chicago Reader Review by Dave Kehr
• On Hirta, No Man Is an Island by John Anderson

• Link to -> Dave Earl's site about Foula
  Includes details of his visits & lots about the real islanders who acted as extras.
• Link to -> Foula Heritage
• Link to -> Review by Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
• Link to -> Onion review
• Link to -> Bil Antoniou's review
• Link to -> EotW locations at ScotlandTheMovie.com
• Link to -> BFI FilmOnline

• Link to -> Download The Edge of the World
  EotW is one of the first films being offered for download (for a small fee) by the BFI

• Court case over EotW (March 1938)

• EotW cast & crew signatures

And a few articles about the island rather than the film (although the film sometimes gets a mention)

• Foreword to a book about Foula by Michael Powell (the foreword, not the whole book)
• Article about Foula - High Mountain Magazine
• A rock and a hard place - St Kilda revisited
• Getting to "The Edge of the World"
• St Kilda: Island on the Edge of the World
• Link to -> Foula: Still at the edge of the world
• Link to -> Foula and St Kilda - survival and decline
• Link to -> Tribute to the island and the film by David Earl
• Link to -> Back to the Edge of the World David Earl's visit to Foula
• Link to -> Living at the edge of the world Life on Foula in 2008

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The Edge of the World (1937) on DVD

• Details about the DVD
  There are many other reviews of the film itself, these are mainly concerned with the DVDs.
  • Comparison of Milestone & BFI DVDs by DVD Beaver

• Reviews of the BFI (UK) edition:
  • Press Release about the DVD from the BFI
  • Daily Telegraph review
  • The Times review [extract]
  • Steve Crook's review

• Reviews of theMilestone (US) edition
  • Dwight Rettie's review
  • Link to -> DVD Savant review by Glenn Erickson
  • Link to -> DVD Exclusive review
  • Link to -> DVD Town review
  • Link to -> DVD Journal review
  • Link to -> DVD Talk review
  • Link to -> Seattle Weekly review
  • Link to -> Turner Classic Movies review
  • Link to -> Variety review
  • Link to -> The Digital Bits review

    And just to show that not everyone loves it unreservedly ...

  • Link to -> FilmCritic.com
  • Link to -> Combustible Celluloid

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Pictures from the PaPAS Gallery

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