The Four Feathers #15

Later, back in England, Faversham performs his fourth heroic deed by correcting his fiancé’s formidable old father (C. Aubrey Smith) who is a retired general. Years earlier in the Crimean War, the general had led a bold charge which he delights in recounting at every opportunity. Faversham sets the record straight by pointing out that, as told to him by his father who was also there, the charge was actually the result of the general being unable to control his horse when it ran away with him. Unseen for many years because of legal entanglements, the 1939 version of THE FOUR FEATHERS is now available on DVD in a beautifully restored edition. Don’t confuse it with the 2002 remake with Kate Hudson, which is so beholding to political correctness that the story makes almost no sense. It is the 1939 version that is the “ripping good yarn!”