The Light That Failed
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Edward José
Robert Edeson
Jose Collins
Lillian Tucker
Claude Fleming
Edward José
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Synopsis
Painter Dick Hedlar returns from war service in North Africa and meets his childhood sweetheart Maizie. His romance is interrupted when Maizie enters his apartment and finds him embracing his model Bessie. She does not know that Dick had nursed Bessie through an illness but that the model tried to stab him in a fit of jealousy over Maizie. Dick starts to go blind and eventually decides to go back to North Africa to prevent his friend Torpenhow from giving up his army career in order to help him. Maizie and Torpenhow follow Dick to Egypt and find him as he is under attack by native tribesmen. Maizie rushes to her lover and they die in each other's arms.
Director
Edward José
Cast
Robert Edeson
Jose Collins
Lillian Tucker
Claude Fleming
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According to Motion Picture News, this was the first adaptation of a work by Kipling for the screen. Some scenes in this film were shot on Fayerweather's Island, off Bridgeport, CT, according to news items. Paramount Pictures released a film based on the same source with the same title in 1923, directed by George Melford, and starring Percy Marmont. (See AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1921-30; F2.3071.) In 1939, Paramount released another version, directed by William Wellman and starring Ronald Colman.
