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Best Foreign Film | 1939
"Storm Over the Nile (1955)" re-used a lot of the battle sequences from this movie, which did not lend themselves very well to cropping necessary to achieve the width of the CinemaScope ratio, nor did their comparative fuzziness blend well with the new footage which surrounded it.
The action scenes, photographed by Osmond Borradaile, were not only filmed where the historical battles had taken place, but also included among the many extras, people who had witnessed or participated in the fighting more than forty years earlier. These battle scenes further benefitted from Director Zoltan Korda's expertise at large-scale action and his early experience as a cavalry officer.
The sailing ships pulled by hordes of Sudanese along the Nile were constructed specially for the production in exact period detail at great cost.
Producer Alexander Korda spared no expense in this production, shooting in Technicolor, and doing most of the exteriors on-location in the Sudan.
For historical accuracy, Zoltan Korda hired a military Technical Advisor, Brigadier Hector Campbell, and had him drill the actors and extras exactly the same as soldiers would have been in the period of this movie's setting.
"Harry Faversham: In England, the white feather is the mark of a coward. Dr. Harraz: Ah, I see. Then why worry? Be a coward and be happy. Harry Faversham: No, Doctor. I have been a coward, and I wasn't happy."
"Ethne Burroughs: Some people are born free. They can do as they like without concern for consequences. But you were not born free, Harry, and nor was I. We were born into a tradition, a code which we must obey even if we do not believe. And we must obey it, Harry, because the pride and happiness of everyone surrounding us depends upon our obedience. Harry Faversham: I quite understand. There should be four feathers here."
