The Four Feathers (1929 film)

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The Four Feathers (1929 film) is a silent adventure drama adaptation of A.E.W. Mason’s novel about a British officer accused of cowardice, notable as an early epic directed by Merian C. Cooper.

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instanceOf adventure film
drama film
film
silent film
associatedWith British Army in fiction
authorOfSourceWork A. E. W. Mason
basedOn The Four Feathers (1929 film) self-linksurface differs
surface form: The Four Feathers (novel)
cinematographyBy Ernest Haller
Ray Rennahan
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
director Lothar Mendes
Merian C. Cooper
distributor Paramount Pictures
era late silent era
featuresCharacter Captain Trench
Colonel Feversham
Ethne Eustace
Harry Feversham
filmingTechnique large-scale battle scenes
location shooting
hasColorProcess Part-color
Two-color Technicolor sequences
hasGenre Adventure
Drama
hasSettingEvent Mahdist War
hasSourceMaterialGenre adventure novel
hasTheme courage
honor
redemption
isBlackAndWhite true
isSilentWithMusic true
language Silent
narrativeFocus British officer accused of cowardice
notableFor early epic scale production
partOfFranchise Film adaptations of The Four Feathers
producer Merian C. Cooper
productionCompany Paramount Pictures
surface form: Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation
productionType feature film
releaseDate 1929-06-01
releaseYear 1929
runtimeMinutes 120
setInLocation Sudan
United Kingdom
setInPeriod late 19th century

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Merian C. Cooper directed The Four Feathers (1929 film)
The Four Feathers (1929 film) basedOn The Four Feathers (1929 film) self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: The Four Feathers (novel)
Noble Johnson notableWork The Four Feathers (1929 film)