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Khartoum
1966
The Arab leader Mahdi is involved in a battle of wits and swords with the British General "Chinese" Gordon which leads to the epic siege of Khartoum. Academy Award Nominations: Best (Original) Story and Screenplay. Read more
| Starring | Charlton Heston, Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Richard Johnson |
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| Director | Basil Dearden |
| Genres | Drama |
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Khartoum
The Arab leader Mahdi is involved in a battle of wits and swords with the British General "Chinese" Gordon which leads to the epic siege of Khartoum. Academy Award Nominations: Best (Original) Story and Screenplay.
| Starring | Charlton Heston, Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Richard Johnson, Nigel Green, Michael Hordern |
|---|---|
| Director | Basil Dearden |
| Studio | MGM ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 2 hrs 3 mins |
| Certificate |  |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Dubbed | French, German, Italian, Spanish |
| Hearing-impaired | English, German |
| Subtitles | DVD: Danish, Dutch, French, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish |
| Released | Production year: 1966 To Rent: DVD: 31 Mar 2003 |
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A massive all-star cast and a huge budget help to make the more vacuous moments of this epic comparatively painless. It... read more on Time Out
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Good Historical drama
Khartoum is a well made fim that most people with an interest in history will enjoy. Even with Charlton Heston as a British 'hero' and Laurence Olivier ... read more »
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- 20 Jan 2005 at 08:27
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KHARTOUM (1966) is a good solid movie. It certainly has a very sweeping and epic feel to it, like LAWRENCE OF ARABIA or CROMWELL does. Charlton Heston is OK as ... read more »
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Heston is convincing as an englishman
perhaps because it ends in a downbeat way with the death of Gordon this film never attained the cult status of Lawrence of Arabia, as Gordon essentially fails... read more »
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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 ... read more »
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