The Four Feathers (2002)
Directed by Shekhar Kapur
A young British officer resigns his post when he learns of his regiment's plan to ship out to the Sudan for the conflict with the Mahdi. His friends and fiancée send him four white feathers as symbols of what they view as his cowardice. To redeem his honor, he disguises himself as an Arab and secretly saves their lives.
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What critics compared The Four Feathers to
Gunga Din from the same year, featuring Cary Grant as a British soldier in India Beau Geste, also from 1939, about French soldiers and a colonial desert fortresss.
But it’s not good in an often hugely entertaining way—assuming, of course, that you’re ready to accept the idea of the main character (Nicolas Cage) and the whole business of Mephistopheles (Peter Fonda) squaring off against Mephistopheles Jr. (Wes Bentley, The Four Feathers).