From the Four Corners

Name: From the Four Corners
Genre: Drama, Short
Released: 1942-10-05
Duration: 15 min
Rating: 7.3
Cast: J. Johnston, W. Atkinson, R. Gilbert

1942
15m

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7.3/10

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J. Johnston in From the Four Corners (1942)

Drama Short

Members of three Commonwealth armies, an Aussie, a Canadian, and a New Zealander meet actor Leslie Howard who buys them a beer and makes them understand why they're fighting.Members of three Commonwealth armies, an Aussie, a Canadian, and a New Zealander meet actor Leslie Howard who buys them a beer and makes them understand why they're fighting.Members of three Commonwealth armies, an Aussie, a Canadian, and a New Zealander meet actor Leslie Howard who buys them a beer and makes them understand why they're fighting.

Director
- Anthony Havelock-Allan
Writers
- Leslie Howard
- A.G. Macdonald
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IMDb RATING

7.3/10

120

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Director
- Anthony Havelock-Allan
Writers
- Leslie Howard
- A.G. Macdonald
Stars

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Leslie Howard: Perhaps the men who came closest to putting them into words were those Americans, many of them the sons of British pioneers, who founding an independent nation proclaimed "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. That they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights - that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness". Those words and that spirit were born and nourished here, and your fathers carried them to the ends of the earth. They're our inheritance from the past, our legacy to the future. That's why you came here - to defend them.

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Featured in Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn (2016)

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7/10

Updating Peter Andres' review

The film is available in its entirety online at the Imperial War Museum.

http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1060021299

Unfortunately, the ownership watermark is placed annoyingly high on the frame and is there throughout the short, but it's the only place online I've been able to find it after several years of on-and-off searching. I only saw it once or twice years ago, and it's better than I remember. Mr. Howard does a fine job with a cursory history of England and her empire, centered on London, from Alfred the Great to the American Revolution, and the explorers she sent out "To the the Four Corners" as it were. The private soldiers were also quite good. They were a little stiff, but most professional actors of the time weren't as naturalistic as we expect. They were real soldiers playing, I assume, themselves.

Well worth 15 minutes of your time.