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 |
|---|---|
| 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 | DVD: 31 Mar 2003 Production year: 1966 |
| Format | DVD |
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Charlton Heston stars in this big-budget epic about General Gordon's last stand, when Sudanese warriors, led by the Mahdi, gave the British Empire a serious jolt. Heston's portrayal of Gordon is finely studied, suggesting a complexity that the script never quite comes to terms with. His performance contrasts with that of Laurence Olivier, whose Mahdi is all eye-rolling, lip-quivering fanaticism, like a refugee from a Carry On film. Intended as a rival to Lawrence of Arabia, this boasts a fine supporting cast, including Michael Hordern and Ralph Richardson, and is often spectacular to watch, but Basil Dearden's direction is on the stodgy side.
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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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5 out of 5 people found this review helpful
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 as the 'mad Mardi' the scale of the production coupled with an excellent supporting cast overides any casting mistakes.
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5 out of 5 people found this review helpful
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 as the 'mad Mardi' the scale of the production coupled with an excellent supporting cast overides any casting mistakes.
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There was nothing small about Charlton Heston. He was a big, lusty man, with a scowl that might have been chiselled out of granite, a famously noble brow, and the kind of sculpted upper torso he was happy to show off well into middle age. It was a physique built for Cinema-Scope. With the movies' fighting television for audiences in the 1950s, Heston was the man of the hour. Cecil B De Mille cast him as the circus master in The Greatest Show On Earth (Best Picture winner in 1952), then as... Read more
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