Khartoum
91
General Charles Gordon defies orders to evacuate Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, staying to protect Khartoum's people from a massive Muslim army.
Why watch: Heston and Olivier in Ultra Panavision 70. Scorsese called it marvelous.
Cast
Charlton Heston as Gen. Charles 'Chinese' Gordon
Laurence Olivier as Mahdi
Richard Johnson as Colonel Stewart
Ralph Richardson as William Gladstone
Alexander Knox as Sir Evelyn Baring
Johnny Sekka as Khaleel
Michael Hordern as Lord Granville
Zia Mohyeddin as Zobeir Pasha
Marne Maitland as Sheikh Osman
Nigel Green as General Wolseley
Hugh Williams as Lord Hartington
Ralph Michael as Sir Charles Dilke
Douglas Wilmer as Khalifa Abdullah
Edward Underdown as Colonel William Hicks
Peter Arne as Major Kitchener/Tewfik Pasha; Khedive of Egypt
Crew
Basil Dearden — Director
Eliot Elisofon — Director
Robert Ardrey — Writer
Julian Blaustein — Producer
Weston Drury Jr. — Casting
Edward Scaife — Director of Photography
Fergus McDonell — Editor
John Howell — Art Direction
Frank Cordell — Original Music Composer
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