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The Four Feathers (1929)

Adventure | 81 minutes
3,83 3 votes

Genre: Adventure / Drama

Duration: 81 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack and Lothar Mendes

Stars: Richard Arlen, Fay Wray and Clive Brook

IMDb score: 6,9 (387)

Releasedate: 1 June 1929

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The Four Feathers plot

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British officer Harry Faversham would rather resign than fight the rebels in Egypt. Four of his former colleagues give him four feathers, as a sign that they think he is a coward. Faversham then decides to disguise himself as an Arab and goes to the war zone to free captured British there.

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Lt. Harry Faversham

Ethne Eustace

Lt. Jack Durrance

Capt. William Trench

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Harry Faversham - age 10

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For this early (but already third) film adaptation of this story, the plot was stripped down to the action sequences, causing Ethne and Durrance in particular to fade much more into the background (whereas in EAW Mason's original 1902 novel they receive just as much attention as Harry). And then some story elements were shuffled around as well, causing the episode in Omdurman to start halfway through the film instead of being its climax, and Harry taking command of Fort Khar from Durrance to be completely pulled out of the scriptwriters' imaginations, but all in all, it still works quite well thanks to the excellent casting with actors who keep the overacting in check, the spectacular North African location work including fleeing baboons, roaring hippos, and a burning savannah, and a serious pace that doesn't give the viewer time to rack their brains over the details of how Harry manages to pull it all off. One of the last "silent" film spectacles, and a well-deserved hit, even though EAW Mason may well have scratched his head at all the psychological simplifications of his characters and their issues.

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