Review – Thunder Rock

What a weird movie. A disillusioned former journalist (Michael Redgrave) escapes from humanity by taking a job as a lighthouse keeper in Lake Michigan. In his isolation he finds his mind haunted by the made-up ghosts of the captain and passengers of a boat that crashed on nearby rocks nearly a century before. At first his companions are stiff and one-dimensional. But after he contemplates his fruitless struggles to get the world to wake up to growing threats to global peace in the late 1930s, he finds himself able to journey back into the pasts of his ghosts as well. The odd, disconnected nature of the separate stories gets tied up a bit at the end, but even then this comes across as a strange way to make a point about perseverance in the face of adversity. Mildly amusing