| 词条 | The Four Just Men (1939 film) |
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| name = The Four Just Men | image = "The_Four_Just_Men"_(1939).jpg | image_size = | caption = Original Australian trade ad | director = Walter Forde | producer = Michael Balcon | writer = Edgar Wallace (novel) Angus MacPhail Sergei Nolbandov Roland Pertwee | narrator = | starring = Hugh Sinclair Griffith Jones Francis L. Sullivan Frank Lawton Anna Lee | music = Ernest Irving | cinematography = Ronald Neame | editing = Stephen Dalby Charles Saunders | studio = Ealing Studios | distributor = ABFD (UK) Monogram Pictures (US) | released = June 1939 | runtime = 85 minutes | country = United Kingdom | language = English | budget = | gross = | preceded_by = | followed_by = | website = }} The Four Just Men, also known as The Secret Four, is a 1939 British thriller film directed by Walter Forde and starring Hugh Sinclair, Griffith Jones, Edward Chapman and Frank Lawton.[1] It is based on the novel The Four Just Men by Edgar Wallace. There was a previous silent film version in 1921.[2] This version was produced by Ealing Studios,[3] with sets designed by Wilfred Shingleton. The Four Just Men was re-released in 1944 with an updated ending featuring newsreel of Winston Churchill and the Allied war effort as a fulfilment of the ideals of the Four. The adviser on the House of Commons of the United Kingdom scenes was Aneurin Bevan.[4]PlotThe Four Men are British World War I veterans who unite to work in secret against enemies of the country. They aren't above a spot of murder or sabotage to achieve their ends, but they consider themselves true patriots. Cast{{div col}}
Critical receptionThe New York Times reviewer wrote, "Four Just Men, by Edgar Wallace, whatever it might have been, was probably not a work of literature, and therefore, on that charitable assumption, it is gently, rather than harshly, that one must deal with the British-made screen version, now on view at the Globe Theatre. Like all pictures seeping over from England nowadays, it is more than a little infected with the virus propagandistus, but, over and above that common-carrier failing, it is a model of sheer incredibility crossed with what (carrying out the charity idea) we might designate as espionage melodrama".[5] According to a writer for the Radio Times decades later "it defiantly suggests that Britain could never fall under the sway of a dictator. But in all other respects it's a rollicking boys' own adventure, with some of the most fiendishly comic-book murders you will ever see... hugely entertaining sub-Hitchcockian antics". [6]References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/33836|title=The Four Just Men|work=BFI}} 2. ^{{cite web|url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b6bd7394f|title=The Four Just Men|work=BFI}} 3. ^Wood p. 100 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.britmovie.co.uk/films/The-Four-Just-Men_1939|title=The Four Just Men|publisher=}} 5. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9D07E0D71230E43ABC4A51DFB266838B659EDE|title=Movie Review - The Four Just Men - THE SCREEN; Two Spy Melodramas, 'The Secret Four' at Globe and 'Enemy Agent' at the Rialto, Are Seen Here - NYTimes.com|publisher=}} 6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.radiotimes.com/film/mcb6p/the-four-just-men|title=The Four Just Men|author=David Parkinson|work=RadioTimes}} Bibliography
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