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Khartoum Reviews

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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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- 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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  - BURNHAM
  - 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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  - GLASGOW
  - 28 Jan 2006 at 08:52
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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
  - Abergele, North Wales
  - 20 Jan 2005 at 08:27
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- - 5
  - 0
  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 »
  
  Report this review
- 65577
- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - Neville Kelley
  - Abergele, North Wales
  - 20 Jan 2005 at 08:27
- - 5
  - 0
  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 »
  
  Report this review
- 199606
- - a customer
  - GLASGOW
  - 28 Jan 2006 at 08:52
- - 1
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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 »
  
  Report this review
- 461490
- - paddiwack
  - 10 reviews
  - London
  - 26 Jul 2007 at 20:46
- - 0
  - 0
  Khartoum
  
  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 »
  
  Report this review
- 797105
- - MAXIMILIAN
  - 154 reviews
  - BURNHAM
  - 12 Aug 2009 at 18:11

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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....