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A young British officer resigns his post when he learns of his regiment's plan to ship out to the Sudan for the conflict with the Mahdi. His friends and fiancée send him four white feathers as symbols of what they view as his cowardice. To redeem his honor, he disguises himself as an Arab and secretly saves their lives.
FeaturingHeath Ledger, Wes Bentley, Kate Hudson, Djimon Hounsou, Alex Jennings, Michael Sheen, Lucy Gordon, James Cosmo
Review snapshot***Brits fighting Sudanese rebels in 1884 with Heath Ledger, Wes Bentley and Kate Hudson***
Based on the novel by A.E.W. Mason, a greenhorn British regiment in 1884 is commissioned to Egyptian-ruled Sudan to fight Mahdi rebels. A young officer, Harry (Heath Ledger), unexpectedly resigns and is shamed as a coward by his three best friends (e.g. Wes Bentley) and fiancée (Kate Hudson). After the negative fallout he goes to Sudan undercover to hopefully redeem his honor.
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