"British Bull's-eye" to: Be Screened at Nanking with East Surreys in Film "A British bull's eye!" says "Time" in its review of the latest Alexander Korda production to reach Shanghai; if somewhat less forcefully, every other important American reviewer re-echoes this sentiment in his assessment of "Four Feathers", technicolor cinema version of A. E. W. Mason's best selling novel of the same name.
An exciting and dramatic adventure Story revolving round General Kit-Cheners spectacular capture of Khartoum, it has the broad expanse of the Egyptian Soudan for background. Filmed on the actual scenes of the' engagement, the magnificent battle scenes carry a sharp impression of reality, that is materially aided by the brilliant colour photography. The hordes of Dervishes, sweeping down onthe waiting British, provide one of the biggest thrills in recent pictures. They come in yelling masses, mounted on camels and horses and afoot, and twice the Tommies turn the attack.
Behind all this- spectacle is the dramatic tale of aman who fights to prove to friends and sweetheart that he is not the coward they believe him to be which, indeed, he believes himself to be. Heading the cast are Ralph Richardson, John Clements, Jack Allen and Donald Grey, four young officers; C. Aubrey Smith, Grey's father and a retired veteran; June Duprez. as his daughter, engaged io marry Clements, and loved by Richardson.
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