Storm Over the Nile

The Four Feathers ranked high among Alexander Korda's prewar successes and, in this remake of the A.E.W. Mason story, his brother Zoltan assumes some producer credit as well as sharing the directorial chore with Terence Young.

The Four Feathers ranked high among Alexander Korda’s prewar successes and, in this remake of the A.E.W. Mason story, his brother Zoltan assumes some producer credit as well as sharing the directorial chore with Terence Young.

Use of the widescreen process is probably the main justification for the remake, particularly as it enhances the vivid battle scenes in which Kitchener’s troops rout the native armies at Khartoum, while imprisoned British officers capture the enemy arsenal. These spectacular sequences are the main highlight of the picture, which in other ways is outmoded in spirit and story content. Battle sequences filmed in the Sudan have a convincing look.

Generally, the acting hardly matches the lavish and spectacular qualities of the production. Laurence Harvey as a fellow officer who gets blinded by an overdose of sun, appears miscast. Only James Robertson Justice, as a veteran of the Crimea and father of Anthony Steel’s fiancee, fits happily into the story.

Storm Over the Nile

UK

• Production: London. Director Terence Young, Zoltan Korda; Producer Zoltan Korda; Screenplay R.C. Sherriff, Lajos Biro, Arthur Wimperis; Camera Ted Scaife, Osmond Borradaile; Editor Raymond Poulton; Music Benjamin Frankel; Art Director Wilfrid Shingleton
• Crew: (Color) Widescreen. Available on VHS. Extract of a review from 1955. Running time: 107 MIN.
• With: Anthony Steel Laurence Harvey Mary Ure Ronald Lewis Ian Carmichael James Robertson Justice

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