Ronald Colman

Walter Huston

Muriel Angelus

Ida Lupino

Dudley Digges

Ernest Cossart

Ferike Boros

Pedro de Cordoba

Colin Tapley

Ronald Sinclair

Sarita Wooton

Halliwell Hobbes

Charles Irwin

Francis McDonald

George Regas

Wilfred Roberts

Jimmy Aubrey

Clara Blore

Ricardo Lord Cezon

George Chandler

Joe Collings

Clyde Cook

Harry Cording

Armba Dandridge

Barbara Denny

Ted Deputy

Barry Downing

Jack Egger

Harold Entwistle

Leslie Francis

Gerald Hamer

Sam Harris

Fay Helm

Bill Hurley

Colin Kenny

Larry Lawson

Connie Leon

George Melford

Clive Morgan

Pat O'Malley

Bob Perry

Cyril Ring

Gerald Rogers

John Graham Spacey

Hanley Stafford

Robert R. Stephenson

Hayden Stevenson

David Thursby

Carl Voss

Blue Washington

Ben Watson

Charles Bennett

Rudyard Kipling

Robert Carson

William A. Wellman

Hans Dreier

Theodor Sparkuhl

Victor Young

Robert Odell

Thomas Scott

Clem Jones

Hugo Grenzbach

Cliff Lyons

George Parrish

Edward Salven

Walter Oberst

Guy Bennett

Wally Westmore

F.O. Collings

Sidney Street

Joseph C. Youngerman

Charles Bradshaw

Richard Hageman

Evelyn Finley

Stanley Goldsmith

A. E. Freudeman

Yakima Canutt

Leo Shuken

Drama

The Light That Failed

Paramount Pictures

United States of America

CinemaSerf

Rudyard Kipling excelled at telling tales of Empire - his detailed knowledge and vivid imagination has been the source of many a strong adventure. This one is a bit different though. Ronald Colman ("Dick") is a war correspondent in the Sudan who is injured in action. Sent back home to convalesce, he becomes a bit of a sensation with this paintings and after meeting childhood sweetheart "Maisie" (Murial Angelus) again, things look set fair. Unfortunately, he begins to notice that his eyesight isn't what it was, and after consulting a physician, he learns that he is going blind. He decides to go out with a bang - his masterpiece - and so decides to paint "Betty" (Ida Lupino) a young girl living with his best friend "Torpenhow" (Walter Huston) who helped save him in the desert. When his work is complete, jealousy rears it's ugly head and he is left with little else than to return to the army, again as a correspondent, where he once more rides against the Dervishes. At times, this is quite slow - but Colman and Angelus have a certain charm to their performance, and as the artist's eyesight deteriorates, I did feel a certain degree of sympathy for this rapidly declining melancholic man soon to be robbed of much of his raison d'être. I wasn't so sure of Lupino - her efforts just a bit forced and her dialogue doesn't really allow her character to come across as much more than an angry young woman. I could have done with a little more action, the romances subsume it largely after about twenty minutes; but it is still an enjoyable watch.

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