Khartoum

Khartoum

Actors:  Charlton Heston, Laurence Olivier, Richard Johnson Directors:  Basil Dearden, Eliot Elisofon

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 (Charlton He...