Harry Feversham is a British Army officer. When his regiment is sent to fight in the Sudan, he resigns his commission. His three closest friends and fellow officers view him as a coward and each send him a white feather, a symbol of cowardice. His fiancée has the same view and does the same. Humiliated by this, Feversham sets off to the Sudan to redeem his honour.
Reasonably entertaining. I watched the 1978 version of this film and found it stuffy and overly melodramatic but entertaining enough. This version is slightly better - the stuffiness is gone but there's still a lot of empty melodrama and periods where the film just drifts. On the downside, this version is 30 minutes longer, due to some scenes and plot developments being overly drawn out.
As with the 1978 version, it's still quite entertaining though. The battle scenes are very well done: gritty, action-packed and quite an impressive spectacle.
Overall, not brilliant but entertaining enough.
Reasonably entertaining. I watched the 1978 version of this film and found it stuffy and overly melodramatic but entertaining enough. This version is slightly better - the stuffiness is gone but there's still a lot of empty melodrama and periods where the film just drifts. On the downside, this version is 30 minutes longer, due to some scenes and plot developments being overly drawn out.
As with the 1978 version, it's still quite entertaining though. The battle scenes are very well done: gritty, action-packed and quite an impressive spectacle.
Overall, not brilliant but entertaining enough.