Starts with two tweens having fun with a handgun. The girl fires it too close to the boy's head and momentarily blinds him. Skips ahead. The boy had grown into Ronald Coleman. He's in the British Army and murdering Sudanese. Coleman is hit above his eye with a spear. Sadly, he survives. He returns to Britain and becomes an artist painting imperialist war scenes. This was based on a novel by Rudyard Kipling and you know what that guy was like.
He runs into his old girlfriend Maisie. She probably kind of owed him after almost killing him as a child, but she's working on being an artist herself and doesn't want to resume their relationship.
Oh, and then his eyesight starts to go as a result of his war wound.
With Walter Huston and Ida Lupino as an impoverished young woman he hires to model.
Directed by William Wellman.
Even if I could get past the killing and the British imperialism, there was no one to really get behind in this thing.
Available on The Criterion Channel.
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