One-Eyed Kings: Raoul Walsh
"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king." There was a time when men were men and eyes were something you had two of. One for the rough, and one in the trunk for spare.
Raoul Walsh silent film star and canonical director lost his right eye in 1929 when a jackrabbit went through the windshield of his jeep, and the glass shards blinded it. His best work was still ahead of him.
Two apocryphal stories surround his decision to wear an eyepatch over the use of a glass eye. One he tells his doctor, "Every time I'd get in a fight, I'd have to put it in my pocket." The other, that he'd probably lose it gambling in a poker game or misplace it in a brothel and that he'd better go with the patch.
Raoul Walsh silent film star and canonical director lost his right eye in 1929 when a jackrabbit went through the windshield of his jeep, and the glass shards blinded it. His best work was still ahead of him.
Two apocryphal stories surround his decision to wear an eyepatch over the use of a glass eye. One he tells his doctor, "Every time I'd get in a fight, I'd have to put it in my pocket." The other, that he'd probably lose it gambling in a poker game or misplace it in a brothel and that he'd better go with the patch.
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