The Four Feathers
The Four Feathers is the fifth film adapted from the novel of A.E.W Mason. The setting is in 1989 in Sundan where a young soldier Harry Faversham decides to leaves his duty after his father’s death. Meanwhile, his regiment ships out to battle the rebels. His demobilizing decision is misunderstood as an act of cowardice. The result is that he gets 4 white feathers - a symbol of cowardice from three friends and his fiancée. To regain honor and love, Harry enters the final challenge: Rescue people from danger and return to England.
22 May 1980, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
20 February 1978, London, England, UK
19 September 1939, Leyland, Lancashire, England, UK
1971, London, England, UK
1 April 1973
25 April 1978, Newcastle Upon-Tyne, England, UK
19 November 1971, Lyon, France
13 May 1946, Rugby, Warwickshire, England, UK
4 April 1979, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
29 October 1940, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
22 September 1970, London, England, UK
5 February 1969, Newport, Gwent, Wales, UK
16 April 1977, Bahr al Ghazal, Sudan
January 24, 2008
It's cold, misguided, confusing, illiterate, boring, badly acted and flat-out laughable.
September 23, 2002
Ledger does a great job in the action sequences and the more tender scenes.
September 20, 2002
It's beautifully done, but there's not much of a point to it.
February 18, 2006
Michael Schiffe and Hossein Amini's screenplay adaptation (is) as full of holes as the tracks of a camel herd. [published 9-19-02]
December 28, 2010
A decent film with some intense battle violence.
September 26, 2002
Kapur weighs down the tale with bogus profundities.
September 20, 2002
It's a pretty compelling yarn, not to mention full of pretty pictures, and yet it could be so much more than that.
December 28, 2008
The Sahara desert, gorgeously photographed by Robert Richardson, displays the most personality in the entire picture.
June 17, 2003
This unique tale of heroic redemption, sacrifice and unlikely comrades-in-arms is fascinating.
September 20, 2002
What's missing, crucially, is the passion required to make this unlikely tale work.
June 26, 2003
Ultimately, The Four Feathers is nothing more than a handsomely mounted escapist action flick.
September 20, 2002
A movie that lacks the jingoistic bravura of earlier editions ... but hasn't replaced it with meaningful historical revisionism appropriate to our post-colonial age.
