Khartoum
Summary:
After declaring a holy war to rid the Sudan of Anglo-Egyptian rule in the 1880s, the fanatical Sudanese leader Muhammad Ahmad (Laurence Olivier) massacres a British-led force of 8,000 and marches on the strategic city of Khartoum at the confluence of the Blue Nile and the White Nile. The British government of Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone (Ralph Richardson) then sends one ... Full Summary >>
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Cast:
Charlton Heston - (Gen. Charles Gordon)
Laurence Olivier - (The Mahdi)
Richard Johnson - (Col. J.D.H. Stewart)
Ralph Richardson - (Mr. Gladstone)
Alexander Knox - (Sir Evelyn Baring)
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Review:
This film's scenario is an old one: Dig in. Take aim. Then fight to the last gasp. But director Basil Deardon's Khartoum executes the scenario on a grand scale. Set mainly in and near the Sudanese city of Khartoum between 1884 and 1885, it features massing armies, booming canons, and a desert landscape alternately beautiful and brutal. Bo... Continue >>
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