***SPOILERS*** Super schmaltzy and high cholesterol movie has to do with a man Alan Trent, Fredric March,who in him fighting for democracy against the hated Germans in WWI losses his sight and ends up a POW and is treated by the now likable Germans back to good health minus his perfect 20/20 eyesight. That's due an exploded German artillery shell that hit his bunker on the Western Front that wiped out Trent's entire front line unit! It's when Trent checked out to a seaside hotel to spend his last night before being sent to the front lines with his beloved Kitty Vane, Merle Oberon, that he was spotted by a drunken uncle of hers Lawrence Bidley, Claud Allister, going up to his hotel room with a bottle of wine flowers and a box of Kentucky Fried Chicken. It's then that Lawrence suspected all those goodies was for another women and ended up shooting his big fat mouth off about it that had Trent's good friend Gerald Shannon, Herbert Marshall, get a whiff of it.
Feeling that Trent was cheating on Kitty Gerald as Trent's company commander refused to give him a three day pass to see and marry Kitty that resulted in him a few hours later almost getting blown to pieces by a German artillery shell. Now back home and totally blind Trent changes his name to Roger Crane and becomes almost overnight a famous writer of children stories with everyone including Kitty thinking that he was in fact killed in action on the Western Front. It's when Gerald finds out who Crane really is-Alan Trent-he attempts to get him and Kitty back together again. Only to find out that Trent suffering from both blindness and post turmeric shock is less then willing to go along with his plans.
***SPOILERS*** Heart lifting five handkerchief final with Trent doing everything to make Kitty believe that he can in fact see falls flat on his face in sadly showing her that he can't. Trent misunderstood that Kitty loved him no matter what condition he was in and his losing his sight made no difference to her. All this time Trent acted like a fool in avoiding Kitty but now he "sees" just what a fool he was in doing that. As for Gerald he also realized just what a jerk he was in denying Trent a three day pass in thinking he cheated on Kitty which as it turned out he didn't.
Feeling that Trent was cheating on Kitty Gerald as Trent's company commander refused to give him a three day pass to see and marry Kitty that resulted in him a few hours later almost getting blown to pieces by a German artillery shell. Now back home and totally blind Trent changes his name to Roger Crane and becomes almost overnight a famous writer of children stories with everyone including Kitty thinking that he was in fact killed in action on the Western Front. It's when Gerald finds out who Crane really is-Alan Trent-he attempts to get him and Kitty back together again. Only to find out that Trent suffering from both blindness and post turmeric shock is less then willing to go along with his plans.
***SPOILERS*** Heart lifting five handkerchief final with Trent doing everything to make Kitty believe that he can in fact see falls flat on his face in sadly showing her that he can't. Trent misunderstood that Kitty loved him no matter what condition he was in and his losing his sight made no difference to her. All this time Trent acted like a fool in avoiding Kitty but now he "sees" just what a fool he was in doing that. As for Gerald he also realized just what a jerk he was in denying Trent a three day pass in thinking he cheated on Kitty which as it turned out he didn't.