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The Four Feathers (1939)
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3 August 1939 (USA) morePlot:
A British army officer who resigns his commission on the eve of his unit's embarkation to a mission... more | add synopsisAwards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 2 nominations moreUser Comments:
Rousing Adventure Epic moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | John Clements | ... | Harry Faversham |
| Ralph Richardson | ... | Captain John Durrance |
| C. Aubrey Smith | ... | General Burroughs |
| June Duprez | ... | Ethne Burroughs |
| Allan Jeayes | ... | General Faversham |
| Jack Allen | ... | Lieutenant Thomas Willoughby |
| Donald Gray | ... | Peter Burroughs |
| Frederick Culley | ... | Dr. Sutton |
| Clive Baxter | ... | Young Harry Faversham |
| Robert Rendel | ... | Colonel |
| Derek Elphinstone | ... | Lieutenant Parker |
| Hal Walters | ... | Joe |
| Norman Pierce | ... | Sergeant Brown |
| Henry Oscar | ... | Dr. Harraz |
| John Laurie | ... | The Khalifa |
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130 min | 115 min (TCM print)Country:
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Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)MOVIEmeter: 
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A young English army officer resigns his commission just as war in Africa breaks out. His 3 best friends, officers all, and his fiancée each give him a white feather - the sign of the coward. Shunned & ostracized, he undertakes a mission to clear his honour & prove his courage.
This is a wonderful British adventure film, equally on a par with anything Hollywood was to produce in that golden year of 1939. Shot in color, with spare-no-expense filming in the Sudan, THE FOUR FEATHERS is a paean to the glory days of Victoria's Empire & the men who fought to build it.
Sir John Clements is excellent as the young hero. Although virtually unknown to American audiences his entire career, Sir John was a very fine actor with a warmly distinctive voice which he uses here to advantage. Sir Ralph Richardson appears, terrific as always, as one of the friends; so does John Laurie, very good as the troublesome Khalifa. Sir C. Aubrey Smith, magnificent as a curmudgeonly old general, provides the final hurdle Sir John must jump to regain his reputation.