Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: film depicts Harry Faversham sensitive child and Crimean War friends relating tales of cowardice, Fact2: sensitive child is terrified by father, Fact3: North Surreys year after are given orders to deploy to Sudan Campaign to join General Kitchener 's forces to avenge Gordon 's death at Khartoum father 's death, Fact4: sympathetic friend of father 's to obtain help and contacts to join campaign in Sudan, Fact5: Harry Meeting Sutton 's friend Dr Harraz in is disguised as member of tribe Egypt
Output (English): The film depicts Harry Faversham, a sensitive child who is terrified by his father and his Crimean War friends relating tales of cowardice that often ended in suicide. Young Harry follows his fathers wishes of being commissioned in the Royal North Surrey Regiment. He also becomes engaged to marry the daughter of his fathers friend, General Burroughs. A year after his fathers death, the North Surreys are given orders to deploy to the Sudan Campaign to join General Kitcheners forces to avenge General Gordons death at Khartoum. Disgracefully, Harry resigns his commission on the eve of his regiments departure, whereupon he receives a white feather a symbol of cowardice from each of three of his fellow officers and his fiancee. Unable to live as a coward, Harry contacts a sympathetic friend of his fathers, Dr Sutton, to obtain his help and contacts to join the campaign in the Sudan. Meeting Dr Suttons friend Dr Harraz in Egypt, Harry is disguised as a member of a tribe that had their tongues cut out for their treachery by the supporters of the Mahdi. The tribe is identified with a brand that Harry undergoes as well as dyeing his skin colour. The extreme disguise is done to disguise the fact that he cannot speak Arabic or any other native language. In his guise as a native worker, Harry follows his old company which has been ordered to create a diversion to distract the enemy. His former comrade and romantic rival Captain Durrance loses his helmet on a reconnaissance patrol. He is unable to retrieve it or move from a position facing the sun as a result of Sudanese searching for him. The hours he was forced to look at the hot sun destroy the nerves of his eyes, making him blind. Harry warns the company of the enemys night assault, but is knocked unconscious. His company is wiped out, with Harrys former friends, the Subalterns Burroughs and Willoughby captured by the enemy and imprisoned in Omdurman. Harry plays mute with the blind Durrance to take him to British lines, then enters Omdurman to rescue his old friends.