Storm Over the Nile

Storm Over the Nile
Original cinema poster
Directed by	Zoltan Korda Terence Young
Produced by	Zoltan Korda
Written by	R. C. Sherriff
Based on	novel by A. E. W. Mason
Starring	Anthony Steel Laurence Harvey James Robertson Justice Mary Ure
Music by	Benjamin Frankel
Cinematography	Osmond Borradaile Edward Scaife
Edited by	Raymond Poulton
Production company	London Films
Distributed by	British Lion Films Independent Film Distributors 20th Century Fox (UK) Columbia Pictures (USA)
Release date	26 December 1955 (UK) 22 June 1956 (USA)
Running time	107 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Box office	£197,803 (UK)

Storm Over the Nile is a 1955 film adaptation of the 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 utilised. 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.

The film depicts Harry Faversham, a sensitive child who is terrified by his father and his Crimean War friends relating tales of cowardice that often ended in suicide. Young Harry follows his father's wishes of being commissioned in the Royal North Surrey Regiment. He also becomes engaged to marry the daughter of his father's friend General Burroughs.

A year after his father's death, the North Surreys are given orders to deploy to the Sudan Campaign to join General Kitchener's forces to avenge General Gordon's death at Khartoum. Disgracefully, Harry resigns his commission on the eve of his regiment's departure, whereupon, as symbols of cowardice, he receives a white feather from each of three fellow officers and from his fiancé as well, comprising the famous four feathers.