The head house for the cable car and some of the relic equipment as seen in the film have been preserved and may be viewed today, almost as it was in the film. The mine played out in 1960 and was closed. Guano was considered a good organic fertiliser before the use of modern synthetics. US Guano owned and operated the Bat Cave Mine at the time. The climax of the film, involving a fight on a US Guano cable car suspended above the Grand Canyon, was filmed in the aerial tramway to the Bat Cave mine, in the western Grand Canyon of Arizona. Hope Summers as Motel Owner(uncredited)įilming took place in Kingman, Oatman, and Gold Road, Arizona.Bernhard “Barney” Dehl police officer (uncredited).O'Brien falls to his death, and Martin rescues and comforts Janice. He and O’Brien end up fighting outside the car. Martin leaps aboard a cable car that travels over the deepest point in the Grand Canyon. O'Brien thinks he is in the clear when he sees no cars following him, but helicopter patrols have kept him in sight. O'Brien takes Janice hostage in her car and shoots up Martin's patrol car. When Bob discovers the murders, he refuses-and O'Brien kills Bob just as Janice drives up. With Cornel Wilde, Victoria Shaw, Mickey Shaughnessy, Edgar Buchanan. It turns out O’Brien has been illegally extracting gold from a closed mine, and expects Bob to fly him to Las Vegas in a private plane. Edge of Eternity: Directed by Don Siegel. A worried Janice follows him, and Martin follows Janice. While Martin is at Janice's house, Bob rushes out after a mysterious phone call. 2 3 The painting was completed in early May at a time when he was convalescing from a severe relapse. Sorrowing Old Man (At Eternitys Gate) is an oil painting by Vincent van Gogh that he made in 1890 in Saint-Rémy de Provence based on an early lithograph. Janice's brother Bob is a rich wastrel who spends most of his days at Scotty O'Brien's tavern, the sole local drinking spot. 80 cm × 64 cm (31.5 in × 21.2 in) Location. Meanwhile, Eli becomes the murderer's next victim, stabbed to death by someone he welcomes into his home as a friend.

Martin correctly assumes the man has made the cross-country trip to investigate possible theft from the company.

It develops that he is an Eastern executive of an Arizona mining company. Janice provides a vital clue when she identifies the hanged man's suit jacket as being made by an exclusive New York City tailor. The Deputy and Janice team up to solve the murders. On returning to the abandoned mining office he calls home Eli finds the man dead, hanging with his hands bound behind him. However, Eli has a reputation for telling tall tales, so the deputy ignores him to chase an attractive woman, Janice Kendon, speeding recklessly down the road.

The man is then seen wandering, dishevelled and talking apparent nonsense by Eli, an old prospector who tells a Deputy Sheriff about it. He is able to leap out of the way at the last moment, and in a fierce struggle knocks his attacker over the rim to his death. ContentsĪ man has parked his car and is looking into the Grand Canyon with binoculars when someone releases the emergency brake and pushes the vehicle toward him. Directed by Don Siegel, it was shot in CinemaScope on location in the Grand Canyon. Edge of Eternity is a 1959 American crime film starring Cornel Wilde, Victoria Shaw, and Mickey Shaughnessy.

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