The Light That Failed

(1939)

97 minutes

Drama

Directed by William Wellman

Cast:

Ronald Colman as Dick Heldar 
Walter Huston as Torpenhow 
Muriel Angelus as Maisie 
Ida Lupino as Bessie Broke 
Dudley Digges as The Nilghai 
Ernest Cossart as Beeton 
Ferike Boros as Madame Binat 
Pedro de Cordoba as Monsieur Binat 
Colin Tapley as Gardner 
Ronald Sinclair as Dick as a boy 
Sarita Wooton as Maisie as a girl 
Halliwell Hobbes as Doctor 
Charles Irwin as Soldier model 
Francis McDonald as George 
George Regas as Cassavetti 

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A London artist by the name of Dick Heldar is beginning to lose his eyesight.  He goes through opposition to finish his masterpiece, the photograph of a native girl named Bessie Broke. Then he loses his sight.