• Michael Sheen – William Trench
• Heath Ledger – Harry Feversham
• Wes Bentley – Jack Durrance
• Djimon Hounsou – Abou Fatma
• Kate Hudson – Ethne Eustace
• Rupert Penry-Jones – Tom Willoughby
• Kris Marshall – Edward Castleton

When the regimental Colonel announces that the regiment is being dispatched to Egyptian-ruled Sudan to rescue the British General Charles Gordon, young Faversham becomes nervous and resigns his commission. Although he claims to have quit the army in order to stay in England with new fiancée because he would never “go to war for anyone or anything”, he is nonetheless censured by three fellow officers (Willoughby, Trench, and Castleton) for cowardice, but not his best friend Durrance, signified by the delivery of three white feathers to him. He also loses the support of his fiancée Ethne, who presents him with the fourth feather. His father, General Feversham publicly disavows him.

With his former comrades already en route to the conflict, the young Feversham resolves to redeem himself through combat in Sudan. Disguised as an Arab labourer, he pays a French slave trader to take him deep into the Sudanese desert.

Feversham is left alone in the vast sands when the slave trader is killed by his own slaves.Eventually a lone Sudanese warrior named Abou Fatma, locates the abandoned Feversham who had fallen unconscious from heat exhaustion. With the help of this unexpected guide, Feversham locates his old regiment but maintains an observing distance from his former comrades.

Feversham sends Abou to warn the British about an upcoming attack, but Abou is whipped for claiming that a British Officer had sent him. When Mahdist rebels attack the regiment during the battle, the British Square formation is broken by enemy cavalry and young Feversham rescues Durrance, who has been blinded by a rifle misfire, as the British forces rout.

Upon learning that another comrade had been captured by the Mahdist rebels, Feversham goes to the prison-fortress at Omdurman and allows himself to be taken in. He locates his comrade inside the prison amidst a sea of other prisoners and, with the help of Abou Fatma, escapes from the rebels.

His courageous exploits in Sudan puts him back in the good graces of his comrades, his fiancée and his father. Harry returns to England a hero, only to discover his fiance is now engaged to his best friend, Durrance.

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