The Light That Failed

IMDb link: 0031572
IMDb rating: 6.4 (636 votes)
Genres: Adventure, Drama, War, Romance
Director: William A. Wellman, Ida Lupino
Cast: Ronald Colman, Walter Huston, Muriel Angelus and others

Release date: 24 Dec 1939
Release year: 1939
Runtime: 99 minutes
Country: United States
Keywords: wellman and chandler, drunkenness, pet dog, war injury, friend, self sacrifice, accidental shooting, loss of vision, artist's model, 1880s

Plot:

Dick Heldar, a London artist, is gradually losing his sight. He struggles to complete his masterpiece, the portrait of Bessie Broke, a cockney girl, before his eyesight fails him.

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