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- Laurence Olivier, in dark body makeup, plays Muhammad Ahmad, the Sudanese religious leader known as the Mahdi, opposite Charlton Heston as General Gordon. The film dramatizes the 1884-85 siege of Khartoum and ends with the Mahdi's forces taking the city and killing Gordon.
Khartoum (1966)
film · 1966 film by Basil Dearden
- Director
- Basil Dearden
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Distributors
- United Artists, Netflix
- Runtime
- 134 min
- Genres
- adventure film, war film, drama film
- Cast
- Laurence Olivier, Charlton Heston, Richard Johnson, Ralph Richardson