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The Light That Failed
Also known as Lyset, der svandt in Denmark; La lumière qui s’éteint in France; Het licht dat verdween in the Netherlands
(1923) United States of America
B&W : Feature film
Directed by George Melford

Cast: Jacqueline Logan [Bessie Broke], Percy Marmont [Dick Heldar], David Torrence [Topenhow], Sigrid Holmquist [Maisie Wells], Mabel Van Buren [Madame Binat], Luke Cosgrave [Binat], Peggy Schaffer [Donna Lane], Winston Miller [Dick Heldar, as a youth], Mary Jane Irving [Maisie Wells, as a youth]

From an adaptation by Jack Cunningham and F. McGrew Willis of the novelette The Light That Failed by Rudyard Kipling. Cinematography by Charles Clarke (Charles G. Clarke). Presented by Jesse L. Lasky. / Released 25 October 1923. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The novelette was previously filmed as The Light That Failed (1916). The novelette was subsequently filmed as The Light That Failed (1939).

Drama.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 17 November 2022.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.2490; AFI-F2 n. F2.3071; Quirk-Colman p. 205 : Website-IMDb.