"Bright Victory" was one of a group of movies made in the late forties
and early fifties to deal with wounded or paraplegic war veterans. This
one is a lot less sudsy than most and is given an extra dimension by
having a hero who is not only blind but a racist. He is very well played
by Arthur Kennedy, (in an Oscar-nominated performance and winning the
New York Film Critics award), and the film has a decent supporting cast.Mark Robson was the director and while he was always a good jobbing director he was not always the most inspired and was often at the mercy of his material. Here he has a sensitive subject and one that is not often dealt with and he handles it with a real degree of intelligence. A movie that should be revived more often than it is.
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