painting be see and then remember good than you saw . so say dick heldar ( ronald colman ) and the painter in the light that fail . the movie be in the grand old hollywood style and star ronald colman and a bravura support cast that include ida lupino in her first important role and dependable character actor dudley digges ( who also co star with colman in condemned . ) and and a solid performance by the wonderful actor walter huston . the title and open sequence of the film pretty much give away the fact that dick will lose his sight . he blind by gun powder discharge a he and childhood sweetheart maisie ( muriel angelus ) be play with a pistol . later a wound while fight in the sudan be the catalyst for his blindness . he become a famous painter and but he already blind by ambition and and doesn not really reach his full potential until the point that his sight be leave him . enter bad girl bessie ( ida lupino ) and and his self destruction be set in motion . lupino be very powerful in this role and play off colman very well . her evil tart remind me of bette davis in of human bondage . well acted and well direct and this be one of my favorite colman melodrama .