While it’s inherently unfair to apply today’s standards to a screenplay of this vintage, even the most tolerant appraisal would have to conclude that, despite its historical basis, this Four Feathers is guilty of excessive condescension and aggressive pandering. The film’s storyline simply isn’t believable, and its three acts range from sentimental to melodramatic to outright preposterous.
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I don't know if I've seen this, or part of this, or if the feathers thing was used in an Erroll Flynn movie, but parts of it sound familiar.
RH: Four Feathers has been remade at least 6 times, although I find no record of Flynn being in any of them. The nature of the material was certainly tailor made for him.
Well, I've probably seen part of one of them and saw Flynn the same week. ;-)
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