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The Four Feathers is a 1939 British Technicolor adventure film directed by Zoltan Korda, starring John Clements, Ralph Richardson, June Duprez, and C. Aubrey Smith. Set during the reign of Queen Victoria , it tells the story of a man accused of cowardice and his efforts to redeem his name.
The Four Feathers is a 1902 adventure novel by British writer A. E. W. Mason that has inspired many films of the same title. In December 1901, Cornhill Magazine announced the title as one of two new serial stories to be published in the forthcoming year. [ 1 ]
The Four Feathers is a 2002 war drama film directed by Shekhar Kapur and starring Heath Ledger, Wes Bentley, Djimon Hounsou and Kate Hudson. Set during the British Army's Gordon Relief Expedition (late 1884 to early 1885) in Sudan , well after the formation of Mahdiyya , it tells the story of a young man accused of cowardice .
Harry resigns his commission on the eve of his regiment's departure, whereupon he receives a white feather (a symbol of cowardice) from three of his fellow officers and his fiancée. Unable to live as a coward, Harry contacts a sympathetic friend of his father's, Dr Sutton, to obtain his help and contacts to join the campaign in the Sudan.
She began acting in her adolescence with the Coventry Repertory Company [1] after studying at the Froebel Institute, and appeared in The Crimson Circle in 1936. Her next film was The Cardinal (1936), and she had a small part in The Spy in Black (1939), but it was the adaptation of A.E.W. Mason's The Four Feathers (1939), that made her a film star.
Frederick Culley (8 March 1879 – 3 November 1942) was a British film actor.He is best remembered as the kindly Dr. Sutton in The Four Feathers (1939). [1] His Father, Richard Palethorpe Culley, was an entrepreneur and philanthropist and his mother, Mary Widgery, came from a family of artists.
It was also depicted in the climax of the 1939 film The Four Feathers [28] and later as a short episode in the 1972 film Young Winston, where Churchill takes part in the charge of the 21st Lancers. [29] About that period too, Lance Corporal Jones mentions his own participation in the battle during the comedy series Dad's Army. [30]
The Stratton Story (1949) – biographical drama film telling the true story of Monty Stratton, a Major League Baseball pitcher who pitched for the Chicago White Sox from 1934 to 1938 [294] Twelve O'Clock High (1949) – war drama film based on the novel of the same name by Sy Bartlett and Beirne Lay Jr. , who drew deeply on their own wartime ...