Four Feathers The (1939)

Four Feathers The (1939)

Directed by Zoltan Korda this A.E.W. Mason novel was adapted by R.C. Sheriff (Goodbye Mr. Chips (1939)) to create an entertaining wartime adventure drama that received an Academy Award nomination for its Color Cinematography. A popular story and a remake which would be remade again & again the film stars John Clements as the young British Lieutenant Harry Faversham from a family with a proud military heritage of heroes who’s thought a coward (for his pacifism) by three of his peers and even (by inference) his fiancée (June Duprez). Upon resigning his commission Harry receives a symbolic white feather from each adding the fourth (as his fiancée’s) himself before breaking their engagement. Virtually ruined he then risks everything to restore his honor traveling great distances and even disguising himself as a deaf-mute Arab to assist his fellow officers in battle. One by one Harry ends up saving each of their lives after which he returns their feather. Ralph Richardson plays one of these who is blinded Jack Allen & Donald Gray (as his fiancée’s brother) the other two (they’d been imprisoned). C. Aubrey Smith plays his fiancée’s father an old warhorse who regales everyone to boredom with his endless (embellished) recounting of one of his famous battles during the Crimean War. Frederick Culley plays the doctor who figures out what Harry is doing; Allan Jeayes plays the father of 12 year old Harry (Clive Baxter) the General whose stories had terrified the youngster.

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