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1966

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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

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	German, French, Spanish, Italian
Hearing-impaired	English, German
Subtitles	DVD: Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, 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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  - 04 Nov 2008 at 00:15
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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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  - Neville Kelley
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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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  - 12 Aug 2009 at 18:11
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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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  - 26 Jul 2007 at 20:46
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  TOP MOVIE !!!
  
  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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Clooney calls for action after release from police custody
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- 16 Mar 2012
Defiant George Clooney has called on U.S. government officials to take action now to prevent the looming starvation crisis in South Sudan following his arrest in Washington, D.C. on Friday morning (16Mar12). The Hollywood star and his journalist father Nick were placed in handcuffs and driven away by secret service agents after they ignored three requests from cops to leave the area of a humanitarian protest. Clooney, who had given a speech on the steps of the Sudanese embassy, his father and... Read more
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