A woman sits knitting on the porch of her home when a man appears and takes the knitting from her.A woman sits knitting on the porch of her home when a man appears and takes the knitting from her.A woman sits knitting on the porch of her home when a man appears and takes the knitting from her.
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Isabel Harrington
- The Woman
- (uncredited)
Raymond S. Harrington
- The Man
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Curtis Harrington(a film by)
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- TriviaFilmed at Salton Sea on the San Andreas Fault in California.
- Alternate versionsDirector Curtis Harrington planned to include sound effects but lacked resources and money, so the film was originally only accompanied by music. Harrington was never satisfied with the audio, so at the end of his life when he decided to have his films archived and preserved, he oversaw the addition of new sound effects. Both versions were included on the DVD/Blu-Ray "The Curtis Harrington Short Films Collection."
Featured review
Decent Experimental Short from Harrington
On the Edge (1949)
** 1/2 (out of 4)
This early experimental film from director Curtis Harrington casts his own parents in the two leads. An elderly man walks up on an elderly woman who is sitting in a rocking chair knitting. He soon takes some of the wool and runs off to some sort of pit. ON THE EDGE is a film that I'm sure each viewer could take something different away from. The "meaning" of the movie is certainly something people could debate but I'm not into this sort of thing so I'll just comment on the film. The movie certainly makes you feel on the edge with its good but sometime rough editing and I really thought Harrington did a fine job at showing somewhat of a countdown as the man faces what he's going up against. I'm not going to ruin the ending but it's done very nicely.
** 1/2 (out of 4)
This early experimental film from director Curtis Harrington casts his own parents in the two leads. An elderly man walks up on an elderly woman who is sitting in a rocking chair knitting. He soon takes some of the wool and runs off to some sort of pit. ON THE EDGE is a film that I'm sure each viewer could take something different away from. The "meaning" of the movie is certainly something people could debate but I'm not into this sort of thing so I'll just comment on the film. The movie certainly makes you feel on the edge with its good but sometime rough editing and I really thought Harrington did a fine job at showing somewhat of a countdown as the man faces what he's going up against. I'm not going to ruin the ending but it's done very nicely.
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- Michael_Elliott
- Aug 16, 2015
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- Runtime6 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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