| tberry7403 | 27 Feb 2013 4:29 p.m. PST |
The 1939 version is on TCM at 8:00pm tonight!! Tim |
| Rudysnelson | 27 Feb 2013 5:31 p.m. PST |
I understand that Turner colorized this version. I wonder if it is the colorized or B&W.
Great movie. |
| RJ Andron | 27 Feb 2013 5:41 p.m. PST |
The 1939 "Korda" version was originally filmed in Technicolor. |
 John the OFM  | 27 Feb 2013 5:45 p.m. PST |
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| epturner | 27 Feb 2013 6:57 p.m. PST |
And great fun it is, I am watching it… John, we NEED to do this… Eric |
| Proniakin | 27 Feb 2013 8:06 p.m. PST |
Eric, I'm running El Teb at Cold Wars. Saturday, 2PM. Steve, 1NJ (ret) |
John Leahy  | 27 Feb 2013 8:13 p.m. PST |
Yeah, this is a good one! Follow it up with Khartoum, Zulu and Zulu Dawn and that's a wonderful day.  Thanks, John |
| John the OFM | 27 Feb 2013 8:24 p.m. PST |
I had seen the TV version (sucked) and the Heath Ledger version, but not the Korda. The Korda is MUCH better. |
| evilgong | 27 Feb 2013 8:42 p.m. PST |
I don't know if it's true that some of the Mahdist extras in the Omdurman depiction fought in the actual battle, but I'm willing to repeat it. |
| Cincinnatus | 27 Feb 2013 8:53 p.m. PST |
FYI – Storm Over the Nile (1955) is almost exactly the same movie as The Four Feathers and also directed by Korda. It's got most of the same scenes and I would bet shares the same dialog in some cases. You have to watch it if you want to see the entire range of these movies. |
| Steve W | 28 Feb 2013 4:43 a.m. PST |
Its has one of the best uses of condiments to re enact the Crimean War I have seen in a film |
| CommanderCarnage | 28 Feb 2013 7:28 a.m. PST |
Great flick one of my faves. I've never seen Storm Over the Nile. It doesn't play much here. |
 The Virtual Armchair General | 28 Feb 2013 10:49 a.m. PST |
Just a hair-splitter's moment! Alexander Korda's '39 version of TFF was shot in Technicolor--but ONLY those parts involving the principals and certain tight shots (two soldiers trading lines, etc). ALL the battle sequences were lifted from the 1929 silent version and (produced by Cooper and Schoedsack just three years before they made "King Kong"), at some expense and remarkable effort, were hand-tinted, one frame at a time, to match the rest of the new footage. The 1929 version was indeed filmed on the Omdurman Battlefield, and, we are told, there were among the locals hired for the action scenes some veterans of the real McCoy some 30 years earlier. All in all, easily the best version of this story, and one of the all-time great films for Colonial War Gamers! TVAG |
| Phil1965 | 28 Feb 2013 12:56 p.m. PST |
I may watch it, the last time I did I got a phone call telling me my mum had died suddenly, so please excuse me if I decide to give it a miss. |
| Doc Ord | 01 Mar 2013 7:21 p.m. PST |
Didn't they have an actual gun boat from the 1898 battle as well? |
now paints and bases the model.