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Fay Wray and Richard Arlen.
Photograph: Silent Era image collection.
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The Four Feathers
(1929) United States of America
B&W : Eight reels
Directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack and Merian C. Cooper, with Lothar Mendes
Cast: Richard Arlen [Harry Faversham], Fay Wray [Ethne Eustace], Clive Brook [Lieutenant Durrance], William Powell [Captain Trench], Theodore von Eltz [Lieutenant Castleton], George Fawcett [Colonel Faversham], Noah Beery [the slave trader], Harold Hightower [Ali], Noble Johnson [Ahmed]; Zack Williams [Idris], E.J. Radcliffe [Colonel Eustace], Augustin Symonds [Colonel Sutch], Philippe de Lacy [Harry Faversham, as a boy], [?] ? [Ethne Eustace, as a girl], [?] Rex Ingram?
Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation [A Cooper-Schoedsack Production]. / Associate producer, David O. Selznick. Screen play (scenario) by Howard Estabrook, from the adaptation by Hope Loring of the novel The Four Feathers by A.E.W. Mason (Alfred Edward Woodley Mason). Costume design by Travis Banton. Assistant director, Ivan Thomas. Photographed (cinematography) by Robert Kurrle + [Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack]. Assistant cameraman, Cliff Shirpser. Film editor, Ernest B. Schoedsack. Titles (intertitles written) by Julian Johnson + [John Farrow]. Musical score by William F. Peters (William Frederick Peters). Presented by Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky. / Premiered 12 June 1929 at the Criterion Theatre in New York, New York. Released June 1929. / Movietone 35mm spherical 1.20:1 format (synchronized sound version) [?] and Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format (silent version)? Western Electric Movietone sound-on-film synchronized sound system. / Powell’s 37th film, his last silent film. The film was released in Austria on 14 February 1930. The novel was previously filmed as Four Feathers (1921). The novel was subsequently filmed as The Four Feathers (1939). / Silent film, with synchronized music and sound effects.
Drama: Adventure.
Survival status: Print exists [16mm reduction positive].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Synchronized sound film
Listing updated: 4 August 2024.
References: Film credits, film viewing : Basten-Technicolor p. 50; Best-Those p. 56; Brownlow-Parade pp. 434, 581; Everson-American p. 236; Gallagher-Ford p. 220; Limbacher-Feature p. 86; Quirk-Powell pp. 98-100; Shipman-Cinema p. 102 : ClasIm-224 p. 55; ClasIm-298 p. 19 : Website-IMDb; Website-Wikipedia.
Home video: DVD.
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