"The Light That Foiled"

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 7 December 1940, Page 8

"The Light That Foiled"

The book, by Rudyard Kipling, has J been twice filmed before, and its warlike atmosphere, taking the locale into the East, now so prominent, makes it of a topical nature. Colman is depicted . as having an eye-weakness from a boy. which, added to by a knife-cut, intended for a friend. Torpenhow (Walter Huston), over the eye. injures the optical nerve, inducing total blindness eventually. He gets the blow at the front in the Sudan, j where Huston was a war correspondent. On returning .to London he continues painting, at which he had been very successful, but owing to a desire for easy money, had dropped in the quality of his work. Now. finding his sight failing, he is inspired to complete one last great work’ and does so in a j gargoylish polrait of Ida Lupino, with'

J the eyes of the girl lie had loved since he was a boy. newcomer Muriel Angel us. Blindness results. and Huston, who is living with Colman. tells Muriel of his condition, but though she does come to him, the blind herself to him. Then he learns that the model. Ida Lupina, in one of her childish fits of ! ra."?. had ruined his masterpiece. > He follows Huston to a renewed war in the Sudan, succeeds in getting into a cavalry corps and rides in a charge to be killed. Huston is absolutely first-class as Torpenhow. war correspondent, and Dudley Digges excellent as the Nilghai. j Ferike Boros stands out in a slight 1 role.