The lighthouse keeper has an attack while cleaning the light. He makes his unsteady way down to the living quarters and collapses. While his wife tends him, their children turn the lights that guide ships through saf passage by hand.
It's a simple and unremarkable drama from Eclipse Films, but this story of dedication meant much more in the days when lives depended on the operation of such edifices -- as, indeed, they still do. The acting is simultaneously florid in its staginess, and stoic in the children's performances. Some value is added to the film by the tinting, far more common in European films of this era than in American ones.
If you wish to see this movie for yourself, it can be found on the Eye Institute site on YouTube.
It's a simple and unremarkable drama from Eclipse Films, but this story of dedication meant much more in the days when lives depended on the operation of such edifices -- as, indeed, they still do. The acting is simultaneously florid in its staginess, and stoic in the children's performances. Some value is added to the film by the tinting, far more common in European films of this era than in American ones.
If you wish to see this movie for yourself, it can be found on the Eye Institute site on YouTube.
