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Set in 1884 Sudan, this fifth film to be adapted from the A.E.W. Mason novel follows a British officer who resigns his post right before his regiment ships out to battle the rebels. Perceiving his resignation as cowardice, his friends and fiancée give him four white feathers, the symbol of cowardice, but little do they know he's actually going undercover and plans to redeem his honor.
Op de avond van zijn verloving met Ethne, dochter van een gesneuvelde officier, krijgt Harry Faversham te horen dat zijn regiment verscheept gaat worden naar de toenmalige Britse kolonie Soedan, om een rebellie van moslimextremisten de kop in te drukken. Harry voelt er echter niets voor om in den vreemde een strijd te gaan voeren die hem niets aangaat en hij neemt ontslag. Dit valt niet in goede aarde bij zijn vrienden en zij sturen hem elk een witte veer, het brandmerk van de lafaard in legerkringen. Bovendien krijgt hij nog een vierde witte veer van zijn verloofde, die daarmee hun relatie als beëindigd beschouw...
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t. Wanneer de eerste berichten van slachtoffers Engeland bereiken, en Harry tevergeefs tussen de namen van de gesneuvelden zijn vrienden zoekt, gaat hij naar Soedan om de veren terug te geven door middel van een heldendaad.
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Based on the novel by A.E.W. Mason, this movie adaptation is the third of its kind, following 1939 and 1977 versions. It is the story of a British commander, Harry (Heath Ledger), who follows in his father's footsteps by joining the army. He is engaged to marry the woman of his dreams, Ethne (Kate Hudson), whose father was also a soldier. But when his regiment is to be sent to war in the Sudan, Harry gets nervous. On a whim, he resigns his post, and is instantly rebuffed by three of his closest friends. They each give him a feather symbolic of his fear. When he tells Ethne what he has done, she gives him the four...
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th, explaining that she cannot love a coward. Lost and alone, Harry cannot come to grips with what has happened. So he travels alone to the Sudan, hoping to in some way help his fellow countrymen and redeem his honor. What he finds instead is a land rife with slavery, brutal violence, and a deadly desert climate. He is befriended by Abou (Djimon Hounsou), a Sudanese wanderer, who saves Harry's life time after time. Director Shekhar Kapur (ELIZABETH) makes this moving adventure story utterly believable with striking photography by Robert Richardson and unmatchable performances from Ledger and Hounsou.
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It's been a helluva merry-go-round of writers on Paramount's gestating reboot of the Jack Ryan franchise. A little bit of history: the started as a origin story penned by Hossein Amini (" The Four Feathers ," the upcoming " Drive "); then Paramount picked up the spec script "Dubai" by Adam Cozad tasking the writer to re-draft it for a Jack Ryan vehicle; Anthony Peckham (" Sherlock Holmes ," " Invictus ") then put his hands on the script only for Cozad to come back and give it another tinker; finally, last month, expensive and very hot screenwriter Steve Zaillian was hired to give it another rewrite but…
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