Four Feathers
Cast & Crew
J. Searle Dawley
Edgar L. Davenport
Fuller Mellish
Ogden Child Jr.
Howard Estabrook
Arthur Evers
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Synopsis
At fourteen, Harry Faversham, the son of a general, is severely frightened when he hears officers relate bloody atrocities committed in the Crimean War. Harry shivers in bed that night. Ten years later when his regiment is ordered to Africa, Harry resigns his commission as a captain, fearing he will be a coward. After three fellow officers each send him a white feather, symbolic of cowardice, and his fiancée, Ethne Eustace, gives him a fourth, Harry consults Lieutenant Sutch, who agrees that his supposed cowardice is a repulsion to violence that he has not overcome. Determined to make the others take back their feathers, Harry goes to Africa, where, disguised as an Arab musician, he saves the regiment led by Ethne's former suitor, Captain Durrance, rescues an officer from prison and retrieves lost dispatches. Back in Ireland, the feathers are taken back, and Durrance, to whom Ethne became engaged out of pity since he was blinded by the desert sun, releases her so that she can love Harry.
Director
J. Searle Dawley
Cast
Edgar L. Davenport
Fuller Mellish
Ogden Child Jr.
Howard Estabrook
Arthur Evers
George Moss
Irene Warfield
David Wall
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Notes
This film was the first that Dyreda Art Film Corp. released through Metro Pictures Corp. Irvin Willat was the head of Dyreda's camera department at the time of the shooting of this film. Mason's novel was remade many times, including a 1921 British version, directed by René Plaissetty and starring Harry Ham; a 1929 Paramount production, starring Richard Arlen, Fay Wray and William Powell (see AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1921-30; F2.1936); a 1938 British version, directed by Zoltan Korda and starring John Clements and Ralph Richardson; and a 1956 British production, directed by Zoltan Korda and Terence Young and starring Anthony Steel.
