Overview:
A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.| Status: | Released (1939-04-20) |
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| Awards: | 2 nominations total |
| Screen: | R.C. Sherriff, Lajos Biró, Arthur Wimperis |
| Productions: | London Films Productions, United Artists |
| Production Countries: | United Kingdom |
| Spoken Languages: | English |
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Casts
- 65851: John Clements - Harry Faversham
- 12689: Ralph Richardson - John Durrance
- 2438: C. Aubrey Smith - General Burroughs
- 39800: June Duprez - Ethne Burroughs
- 95027: Allan Jeayes - General Faversham
- 108093: Jack Allen - Lieutenant Willoughby
- 78744: Donald Gray - Peter Burroughs
Crews
- 65852: Zoltan Korda - Director - Directing
- 56959: A.E.W. Mason - Novel - Writing
- 65854: R.C. Sherriff - Screenplay - Writing
- 20136: Georges Périnal - Director of Photography - Camera
- 7647: Miklós Rózsa - Original Music Composer - Sound
- 115373: Irving Asher - Associate Producer - Production
- 2490: Alexander Korda - Producer - Production
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Reviews
John Chard
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I have been a coward – and I wasn’t happy. The best cinematic treatment of A.E.W. Mason’s novel is here, a rousing and moving tale of a military man who is branded as a coward by those closest to him. Receiving four feathers as a sign of cowardice, Howard Faversham is inspired to ....
Continue reading ->Filipe Manuel Neto
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**A little forgotten gem that, perhaps, deserved to be revisited by the public.** This film is one of several adaptations of a novel set during the Anglo-Egyptian conquest of Sudan. It's quite good and must have been a "super production" for the time it was made. Very well directe ....
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A British officer (John Clements) is called up to serve in Kitchener's army that will set out to avenge the defeat of General Gordon in the Sudan. He is deeply in love with his fiancée (June Duprez), however, and so decides to prioritise his family over his career. Bad move, that - h ....
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