Storm Over the Nile

A sweeping, old-fashioned desert adventure about honor and shame, grand in scale but stiff in its stiff-upper-lip manner.

Directed by

Terence Young, Zoltan Korda

Genres

Adventure, Drama, War

Starring

Laurence Harvey, Anthony Steel, James Robertson Justice

Tagline

Turmoil in the great Egyptian desert !

Overview

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.

How it feels

Earnest, romantic, tense and melancholic. Measured and needs your attention.

About

Identity, betrayal, redemption, loyalty

Content

Mild violence. No gore, sexual content or swearing.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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