Olivier's performance with the Arabic cadence and much repeated interjections of "Oh my beloved..." are a bit of the top...but then again so are the contemporary utterances of the mullahs.
The final paragraph of this review is telling: the very publication of this kind of book, from more than 100 years ago, with such care and artistry, is a work of OUR CIVILIZATION.
A good book to accompany this one is this novel: Mason, The Four Feathers. It is set at the time of the River War, but its drama is quite different. The book has been made into a film 3 times.
Olivier's performance with the Arabic cadence and much repeated interjections of "Oh my beloved..." are a bit of the top...but then again so are the contemporary utterances of the mullahs.