Khartoum

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Actors: Charlton Heston , Laurence Olivier , Michael Hordern , Ralph Richardson , Alexander Knox , Peter Arne , Nigel Green , Richard Johnson , Douglas Wilmer , Ralph Michael , Zia Mohyeddin , Hugh Williams , Marne Maitland , Johnny Sekka , Edward Underdown

Director: Basil Dearden Eliot Elisofon

IMDB Rate: 6.8 out of 10 (2068 votes)

Plot Summary:After an Egyptian army, commanded by British officers, is destroyed in a battle in the Sudan in the 1880s, the British government is in a quandary. It does not want to commit a British military force to a foreign war but they have a commitment to protect the Egyptians in Khartoum. They decide to ask General Charles Chinese Gordon, something of a folk hero in the Sudan as he had cleared the area of the slave trade, to arrange for the evacuation. Gordon agrees but also decides to defend the city against the forces of the Mahdi - the expected one - and tries to force the British to commit troops.