The Four Just Men (1939 film)

The Four Just Men is a 1939 British thriller film directed by Walter Forde and starring Hugh Sinclair, Griffith Jones, Edward Chapman and Frank Lawton. It is based on the novel The Four Just Men by Edgar Wallace. There was a previous silent film version in 1921. The film was made at Ealing Studios, with sets designed by Wilfred Shingleton.

The Four Men are British World War I veterans who unite to work in secret against enemies of the country. They arent above a spot of murder or sabotage to achieve their ends, but they consider themselves true patriots.The New York Times 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 Britishmade 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 commoncarrier failing, it is a model of sheer incredibility crossed with what carrying out the charity idea we might designate as espionage melodrama while the Radio Times wrote, produced by Michael Balcon at Ealing, it defiantly suggests that Britain could never fall under the sway of a dictator. But in all other respects its a rollicking boys own adventure, with some of the most fiendishly comicbook murders you will ever see... hugely entertaining subHitchcockian antics. ........

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