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The Four Feathers

  • 1929
  • 1h 21min
VALUTAZIONE IMDb
7,0/10
369
LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
Richard Arlen and Fay Wray in The Four Feathers (1929)
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Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaWhen British officer Harry resigns from his regiment, he is labeled a coward by family and friends and gets four feathers as a mark of his disgrace. In order to redeem himself and win his fi... Leggi tuttoWhen British officer Harry resigns from his regiment, he is labeled a coward by family and friends and gets four feathers as a mark of his disgrace. In order to redeem himself and win his fiancée back Harry sets out on a dangerous mission.When British officer Harry resigns from his regiment, he is labeled a coward by family and friends and gets four feathers as a mark of his disgrace. In order to redeem himself and win his fiancée back Harry sets out on a dangerous mission.

  • Regia
    • Merian C. Cooper
    • Lothar Mendes
    • Ernest B. Schoedsack
  • Sceneggiatura
    • A.E.W. Mason
    • Hope Loring
    • Howard Estabrook
  • Star
    • Richard Arlen
    • Fay Wray
    • Clive Brook
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    7,0/10
    369
    LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
    • Regia
      • Merian C. Cooper
      • Lothar Mendes
      • Ernest B. Schoedsack
    • Sceneggiatura
      • A.E.W. Mason
      • Hope Loring
      • Howard Estabrook
    • Star
      • Richard Arlen
      • Fay Wray
      • Clive Brook
    • 8Recensioni degli utenti
    • 7Recensioni della critica
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    Richard Arlen
    Richard Arlen
    • Lt. Harry Faversham
    Fay Wray
    Fay Wray
    • Ethne Eustace
    Clive Brook
    Clive Brook
    • Lt. Jack Durrance
    William Powell
    William Powell
    • Capt. William Trench
    Theodore von Eltz
    Theodore von Eltz
    • Lt. Castleton
    Noah Beery
    Noah Beery
    • Slave Trader
    Zack Williams
    • Idris
    Noble Johnson
    Noble Johnson
    • Ahmed
    Harold Hightower
    • Ali
    Philippe De Lacy
    Philippe De Lacy
    • Harry Faversham - age 10
    E.J. Ratcliffe
    • Col. Eustace
    George Fawcett
    George Fawcett
    • Col. Faversham
    Augustin Symonds
    • Col. Sutch
    Rex Ingram
    Rex Ingram
    • Fuzzy Wuzzy Native
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Leon Janney
    Leon Janney
    • Child in Prologue
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    • Regia
      • Merian C. Cooper
      • Lothar Mendes
      • Ernest B. Schoedsack
    • Sceneggiatura
      • A.E.W. Mason
      • Hope Loring
      • Howard Estabrook
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    9JohnHowardReid

    A Rather Dark Version of The Sun Never Sets

    Paramount's final all-silent movie (with a synchronized music score and a few sound effects) was The Four Feathers (1929). Far more faithful to the Empire-at-all-costs spirit of the novel than later versions, the mood here is far less romantic (in both senses of that word). In fact, although Fay Wray plays the heroine, her role is really quite small (and she is unattractively photographed to boot). William Powell has a larger role to play, although his character is overshadowed by Richard Arlen who makes a reasonably convincing stab at the Sun-Never-Sets hero (and as his role is completely silent, his accent never shatters this illusion). Watch for a natural-born actor, Harold Hightower, in his only movie role as the boy with the monkey. Directors Schoedsack and Cooper (of King Kong fame) contribute some really thrilling, shot-on-exotic-locations, all-action sequences, including an eye-numbing hippo stampede that seems to go on forever yet never runs out of puff.
    7AlsExGal

    Notice the changing fortune of one member of the cast...

    .. that cast member being William Powell. I'll get to that later This is the tale, remade in 1939 and in sound, of four friends in the British army, friends from childhood. Richard Arlen has the starring role here as Lt. Harry Faversham. Always brought up to feel that cowardice is the worst character trait one can display, Harry grows up in fear of - well - fear! So when he gets notice that his regiment is being sent to the Sudan, he tries to pretend he didn't get that notice and has just coincidentally decided to resign. He threw his notice into the fire but didn't notice the fire isn't burning. His three friends see the notice and deem him a coward. They send him three feathers as a sign of their disgust. Harry's fiancee, Ethnee (Fay Wray), also disapproves and gives him a fourth feather. Harry's father, on his deathbed, advises Harry to kill himself!

    So now Harry sets out to the Sudan as a civilian, determined to make his former friends take their feathers back. Fortunately for Harry, the British army has been extremely incompetent and is under siege by the locals. So here is his chance to redeem himself and rescue his friends! The plot takes it from there!

    Now back to William Powell. Throughout his tenure at Paramount, Powell had been either playing the buffoon ("Forgotten Faces") or a villain ("Feel My Pulse"). But a funny thing happened just before this film was made - Powell made a couple of talking films. And the public discovered he had quite a distinguished voice. Thus in this, his last silent film, Paramount gave his character some dignity for a change. This film is worth studying if only for that. In fact, in five years, Powell will be the only major male member of the cast who still has a notable film career. Arlen had a fine speaking voice, but he was one of many casualties of the talkies. Clive Brook had an autocratic British accent, and this just did not mesh with the roles and the image he had in silents. Plus he - like many Hollywood stars in the 30s - had numerous threats made concerning the kidnapping of his children. Because of these threats he and his wife and children moved back to England in 1936.

    In summary, this is a rousing adventure film and one of the last silent films Paramount made and is very much worth seeking out.
    8richardchatten

    Rip-Roaring Ripping Yarn

    This characteristically elaborate production from the people who later gave us 'King Kong' plainly took so long to make it was overtaken by the introduction of sound and wound up as Paramount's last silent feature, thus necessitating a Movietone soundtrack. No matter, it still gives Alexander Korda's definitive 1939 Technicolor super-production a run for its money as rip-roaring macho entertainment.

    There are a number of plot differences between this version and its successors which I'll put down to it probably being closer to A.E.W.Mason's 1902 novel, but it still gets most of the best-remembered moments into a trim 81 minutes. Cameraman Robert Kurrle keeps it looking good throughout, while the spectacular location work (including extraordinary footage of monkeys and hippopotami plunging into a river) is all one would expect of the team who gave us 'Grass' and 'Chang', with rousing battle scenes against a spectacular desert backdrop that easily bear comparison with Korda's version.

    George Fawcett is a forbidding Col. Feversham (sic), Fay Wray makes an appealing heroine, but like Clive Brook and Noah Beery Sr. (playing a slave trader) doesn't get much screen time, while William Powell as in most of his silent roles looks rather incongruous without a martini glass in his hand. Most of the weight of the film falls up on the broad shoulders of brilliantined Richard Arlen, who isn't terribly convincing as the scion of a long line of old military duffers, but is certainly adept at the derring do.
    8xerses13

    Good Effort By Cooper/Schoedsack...

    Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack's first feature film that integrated their naturalist outdoor adventure style with Hollywood production values. Following GRASS (1925) and CHANG (1927), THE FOUR FEATHERS (1929) was one (1) of the last films in the transition from the Silent Era to Sound. It featured sound effects and a synchronized musical score. Paramount provided the stars, RICHARD ARLEN, CLIVE BROOK, WILLIAM POWELL, FAY WRAY and the technical skill to illustrate the story. This guaranteed its success at the box office when other such transitional-est films failed.

    A.E.W. MASONs' THE FOUR FEATHERS had been filmed at least two (2) times before, 1915 and 1921. It would be adapted directly again in 1939, 1955 (STORM OVER THE NILE), 1977 (T.V.), 2002 as well as used as a basis for other films. Each adaptation contains variations from the novel too suit the then current producers motives. The version considered the best is 1939 that places emphasis on SACRIFICE, OMDURMAN and EMPIRE, we rate it TEN (10)**********STARS, IMDb.

    COOPER/SCHOEDSACK put special emphasis on the natural aspects of filming in Africa including a stampede of Hippopotamuses as well as other elements native to the area. The cast does a first class job interpreting the screen play showing the sophistication of the late silent era. No mugging or obvious pantomime for the camera to get the point across. Film is well done and worth seeing compressing the salient features of the original novel. A novel that should be read first prior to seeing any of the versions. This would be the last COOPER/SCHOEDSACK production that would feature a emphasis on their original naturalist style. After this their pictures would reflect more and more being studio bound. This was a absolute necessity though. Their fantastic concepts could not be done any other way.
    7bkoganbing

    Will Fevasham Do His Duty?

    The popular A.E.W. Mason novel, the British version of The Red Badge Of Courage, got its third screen version from Paramount in 1929. Technology was winning a race with Paramount that year. Had The Four Feathers been done a bit later it would have included sound and we would have heard such folks in the cast as Richard Arlen, William Powell, Clive Brook, and Fay Wray make their talkie debuts. Sound Effects were added on however post production.

    Richard Arlen is our protagonist Harry Fevasham in this version. He's been brought up in a military family and it and England expects every Fevasham to do his duty. But Harry even as a juvenile questions whether he has the right stuff. When his regiment is called to the Sudan he resigns his commission. Four of his fellow officers send him the anonymous white feather and brand him a coward. His fiancé turns from him, his family disowns him.

    What to do but go to the Sudan and in your own way fight for the British Empire. Fevasham's adventures, incognito at first, make up the rest of the novel and this film.

    This version can hardly be compared to the one that Alexander Korda made for the British cinema in 1939. It has the one unforgettable advantage of being filmed in the Sudan at the actual battle sites at Khartoum and Omdurman. This one has some nice location shooting in California's Imperial Valley and earnest performances from the cast.

    Good thing this one was preserved. See how it stacks up against the many others filmed.

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      • giugno 1929 (Stati Uniti)
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