The Light That Failed (Paramount). Ronald Colman, Walter Huston, Dudley Digges struggle with Kiplingesque stoicism through the somewhat dated heroics and stout fella philosophy of Rudyard Kipling's first novel, made into a picture for the second time. Ida Lupino (re-emerging after a long hibernation) throws a rousing fit of hysterics as the hoydenish model who defaces Ronald Colman's pictorial masterpiece just after he goes blind. Unfortunately for the tragic effect, cinemaudiences can see for themselves that the blind artist's masterpiece is a daub.
Main Street Lawyer (Republic) has nothing to do with Author Bellamy Partridge's best-selling Country Lawyer (recently bought for...