Storm Over the Nile

Storm Over the Nile (1955)

Turmoil in the great Egyptian desert !

In 1885, while his regiment is sent to the Sudan to battle the rebellious Dervish tribes, British Lieutenant Harry Faversham resigns his officer's commission in order to remain with his fiancée Mary Burroughs in England. His friends and fellow officers John Durrance, Peter Burroughs and Tom Willoughby brand him a coward and present him with the white feathers of cowardice. His fiancée, Mary, adds a fourth feather and breaks off their engagement. However, former Lieutenant Faversham decides to regain his honor by fighting in the Sudan incognito.

Date of release
1955-12-26
TMDB
6.3 / 10 (10)
Runtime
1h 47m
Genres
Adventure, Drama, War
Director
Zoltan Korda, Terence Young

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: The Four Feathers

Storm Over the Nile is a 1955 British adventure film adaptation of the 1902 novel The Four Feathers, directed by Terence Young and Zoltan Korda. The film not only extensively used footage of the action scenes from the 1939 film version stretched into CinemaScope, but is a shot-for-shot, almost line-for-line remake of the earlier film, which was also directed by Korda. Several pieces of music by the original composer Miklos Rozsa were also utilized. It featured Anthony Steel, Laurence Harvey, James Robertson Justice, Mary Ure, Ian Carmichael, Michael Hordern and Christopher Lee. The film was shot on location in the Sudan.

Production

The film was one of the last movies made by Alexander Korda. The producer said he wanted to make films that were in colour and had big screen spectacle in order to entice audiences away from television. Finance came in part from Romulus Films.

Kenneth More says Korda offered him a lead role in the film but he turned it down to appear in The Deep Blue Sea (1955) instead. At one point it was going to be called None But the Brave. Ann Miller was reportedly offered a role. It was an early film role for Ronald Lewis who was signed to a contract by Korda after impressing on stage in Mourning Becomes Electra.

The film used locally posted British soldiers for some of the battle scenes. Zoltan Korda reportedly complained the process of blowing up the old footage to CinemaScope "stretched the camels out until they looked like greyhounds."

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