The Light That Failed (1939)

Directors

William A. Wellman

Cast

Charles Irwin, Colin Tapley, Dudley Digges, Ernest Cossart, Ferike Boros, Francis McDonald, Georgios Regas, Halliwell Hobbes, Pedro de Cordoba, Ronald Colman, Walter Huston

The story

In 1865, youngster Dick Heldar is briefly blinded when his girlfriend Maisie accidentally fires his pistol too close to his head. She later tells him that her guardians are sending her away somewhere to be educated, but she agrees when he says she belongs to him "forever and ever." Years later, Dick is a British soldier during the Mahdist War in Sudan. When the natives attack suddenly, he saves the life of his friend, war correspondent "Torp" Torpenhow, but receives a head wound as a result.

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