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A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.
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John Clements
Harry Faversham
Ralph Richardson
John Durrance
C. Aubrey Smith
General Burroughs
June Duprez
Ethne Burroughs
Allan Jeayes
General Faversham
Jack Allen
Lieutenant Willoughby
Donald Gray
Peter Burroughs
Frederick Culley
Dr Sutton
Clive Baxter
Young Harry Faversham
Robert Rendel
Colonel
Archibald Batty
Adjutant
Derek Elphinstone
Lieutenant Parker
Hal Walters
Joe
Norman Pierce
Sergeant Brown
Henry Oscar
Dr. Harraz
John Laurie
The Khalifa
Amid Taftazani
Karaga Pasha
Peter Cozens
Man
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I have been a coward – and I wasn’t happy.
The best cinematic treatment of A.E.W. Mason’s novel is here, a rousing and moving tale of a military man who is branded as a coward by those closest to him. Receiving four feathers as a sign of cowardice, Howard Faversham is inspired to go redeem himself in the eyes of his peers during the Mahdist War 1895.
Zoltan Korda throws everything but the “Kitchener” sink at the production.
1939 was a stellar year for cinema, arguably the greatest ever. Action/Adventure film fans were treated royally this year, with the likes of "Beau Geste", "Gunga Din" and "The Four Feathers" to whet the appetites. The latter is a top line production, a Technicolor spectacle of derring-do and manly codes such as bravery and honour. Some these days may balk at the imperialist fervour that hums along the way, and some characterisations are very much of the time, but with such film making expertise on show (the final battle sequences are high quality), from direction, acting, costuming, photography and musical score, this is classical cinema in its purist form. 9/10
John Chard06 May, 2014
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