The Light That Failed (1939 film)

The Light That Failed is a 1939 drama film based on Rudyard Kiplings novel of the same name. It stars Ronald Colman as an artist who is going blind.

Years later, Dick Ronald Colman is a British soldier in the Sudan. When the natives attack suddenly, he saves the life of his friend, war correspondent Torp Torpenhow Walter Huston, but receives a wound to the head as a result.He turns to painting to try to make a living. When his works start to sell, he returns to England. His realistic paintings of scenes from the war in the Sudan become immensely popular with the critics and the public. In London, he moves in with Torp and is reunited with a grownup Maisie Muriel Angelus, a painter like himself, though not as successful. Liking the financial rewards, Dick is persuaded to sanitize his gritty realism to make his works more attractive to the masses. Torp and fellow war correspondent The Nilghai Dudley Digges try to warn him about it, but he pays no heed he becomes complacent and lazy. Maisie decides to move away and stop seeing him. ........

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