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The Light That Failed (1923 film)

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Genre
  
Drama

Duration
  

Director
  
George Melford

Story by
  
Rudyard Kipling

Country
  
United States

Language
  
Silent (English intertitles)

Release date
  
October 25, 1923 (1923-10-25)

Based on
  
The Light That Failed  by Rudyard Kipling

Writer
  
Jack Cunningham (adaptation), Rudyard Kipling (story), F. McGrew Willis (adaptation)

Screenplay
  
F. McGrew Willis, Jack Cunningham

Cast
  
Jacqueline Logan
(Bessie Broke),
Percy Marmont
(Dick Heldar),
Winston Miller
(Dick Heldar),
Mary Jane Irving
(Maisie Wells),
Sigrid Holmquist
(Maisie Wells)

Similar movies
  
The Jungle Book (1967), Jungle Menace (1937), Hello - Frisco - Hello (1943), Moontide (1942), Green Grass of Wyoming (1948)

The Light That Failed is a 1923 American silent drama film that was directed by George Melford and written by Jack Cunningham and F. McGrew Willis based on the novelette of the same name by Rudyard Kipling. The film stars Jacqueline Logan, Percy Marmont, David Torrence, Sigrid Holmquist, Mabel Van Buren, Luke Cosgrave and Peggy Schaffer. The film was released on October 25, 1923, by Paramount Pictures. It is not known whether the film currently survives, which suggests that it is a lost film.

It was remade in 1939 as a sound film The Light That Failed starring Ronald Colman.

Cast

  • Jacqueline Logan as Bessie Broke
  • Percy Marmont as Dick Heldar
  • David Torrence as Topenhow
  • Sigrid Holmquist as Maisie Wells
  • Mabel Van Buren as Madame Binat
  • Luke Cosgrave as Binat
  • Peggy Schaffer as Donna Lane
  • Winston Miller as Young Dick
  • Mary Jane Irving as Young Maisie
  • References

    The Light That Failed (1923 film) Wikipedia
    The Light That Failed (1923 film) IMDb


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