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Lost in Criterion
Spine 583: The Four Feathers
1 hour 56 minutes Posted Feb 16, 2024 at 7:44 pm.
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With their 1939 adaptation of The Four Feathers Zoltan Korda seems to have wanted to make a movie critical of British imperialism, while his brother, the film's producer Alexander Korda, seems to have wanted to make a movie in praise of their adopted British homeland. What we end up with is a beautifully shot film that is sometimes biting satire and sometimes unironic Islamophobic white saviorism.