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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 Willoughby | |
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Donald Gray | ... | Peter Burroughs |
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Frederick Culley | ... | Dr. Sutton |
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Clive Baxter | ... | Young Harry Faversham |
Robert Rendel | ... | Colonel | |
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Archibald Batty | ... | Adjutant |
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Derek Elphinstone | ... | Lieutenant Parker |
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Hal Walters | ... | Joe |
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Norman Pierce | ... | Sergeant Brown |
Henry Oscar | ... | Dr. Harraz |
Resigning his commission on the eve of his unit's deployment against Egyptian rebels, a British officer seeks to redeem his cowardice by secretly aiding his former comrades, disguised as an Arab. When his unit is overwhelmed and captured by the rebels, the hero finds an opportunity to return the "feathers" of cowardice sent to him by his former comrades by freeing them.
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.