Dear John:
What is being described is the superb movie version of the AEW Mason book,
having nothing to do with RK.
Dave Richards
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Radcliffe [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2000 11:19 AM
> To: Kipling Mailbase
> Subject: Fw: The Four Feathers
>
> Dear Ron
>
> Thanks for your note. I have forwarded it to our Kipling Mailbase in case
> anyone else has comments they want to make.
>
> All good wishes, John R
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ron Clibborn-Dyer <[log in to unmask]>
> To: Robert Davenport <[log in to unmask]>
> Cc: <[log in to unmask]>; <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2000 12:14 PM
> Subject: The Four Feathers
>
>
> > There is a very old Film titled The Four Feathers, about the Nile Wars
> when
> > Gordon was in Khartoum, and the battles with the Fuzzy Wuzzies of the
> Mahdi's
> > army.
> >
> > If my memory serves me right:
> > The story is about one Englishman who did not join-up and was thought to
> be
> > a coward. He went to the Nile and dressed as an Arab beggar was able to
> rescue
> > his friends from captivity in a terrible jail in the dessert.
> >
> > The battle scenes with the Fuzzie Wuzzies were particularly graphic, and
> > were later
> > brought to my mind when reading of Winston Churchill's experiences at
> the
> > Battle of
> > Omdurman when he became separated from the main body of troops in a wadi
> > [dry river
> > bed]
> >
> > In 1964 visited the scene of this skirmish just outside Omdurman across
> the
> > White
> > Nile from Khartoum, where Chinese Gordon lost his head on the Palace
> steps.
> >
> > The book advertised by Amazon UK titled the Four Feathers by AE Mason
> may
> be a
> > reprint of an older book on this subject from which the film may have
> been
> > based.
> >
> > I would be interested to hear the outcome of your Enquiry, as I was only
> a
> lad
> > when I saw the film, and was in my 20's when I visited Omdurman on my
> way
> > down the
> > Nile.
> >
> > I would not be surprised if Kipling had written something about the
> Mahdi's
> > Fuzzie
> > Wuzzies - Whirling Dervishes come to mind, but I doubt that it were the
> book
> > on which
> > was based the film I saw when I was but a lad.
> >
> > Best wishes, Ron in Hong Kong
> >
> > *******************
> > Dear Sir
> > > At the library of congress is a book "The Four Feathers" by Rudyard
> Kipling.
> > > Do you know anything about this work?
> > Is it anything like the book by AEW Mason?
> > > Thanks!
> > > Robert Davenport
> >
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