| Four Frightened People | |
| Director: | Cecil B. DeMille |
| Producer: | Cecil B. DeMille |
| Screenplay: | Bartlett Cormack Lenore Coffee |
| Based On: | novel by E. Arnot Robertson |
| Starring: | Claudette Colbert Herbert Marshall Mary Boland William Gargan |
| Music: | Karl Hajos John Leipold Milan Roder Heinz Roemheld |
| Cinematography: | Karl Struss |
| Editing: | Anne Bauchens |
| Studio: | Paramount Pictures |
| Distributor: | Paramount Pictures |
| Runtime: | 95 min. / 78 min. (1935 re-release) (USA) |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
Four Frightened People is a 1934 American Pre-Code adventure film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Claudette Colbert, Herbert Marshall, Mary Boland, and William Gargan. It is based on the 1931 novel by E. Arnot Robertson.
The film tells the story of two men (Marshall and Gargan) and two women (Colbert and Boland), who leave from a plague-ridden ship and reach the Malayan jungle. The relationships between the four people before they enter the jungle are examined and are transformed as they interact with natural phenomena and the natives who populate the jungle. The film also relates how each of the four people carried on in life after they emerged from the jungle.
The film was a box office disappointment for Paramount.[1]
This film, along with The Sign of the Cross, Cleopatra, The Crusades and Union Pacific, was released on DVD in 2006 by Universal Studios as part of The Cecil B. DeMille Collection.