The Four Feathers (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray] Reviews

The British stiff-upper-lip ethic of duty to Queen and Country above any personal belief or family responsibility is at the core of Zoltan Korda’s The Four Feathers. With our modern day knowledge of the horrors of war and the often dishonest, megalomaniacal reasons for its existence firmly set our minds, it’s sometimes uncomfortable to watch more naively jingoistic approaches to warfare shown in films from previous decades. But Korda’s The Four Feathers actually offers a very sophisticated view toward war service, and even when the film somewhat abandons its initial stance and jumps headlong into the action-adventure aspects of the war story, it still emerges as a more modern look at attitudes toward martial participation that sets it apart from other adventure films of the time like Beau Geste or In Which We Serve.

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