Khartoum (1966)

Directors

Basil Dearden, Eliot Elisofon

Cast

Charlton Heston, Laurence Olivier, Richard Johnson, Ralph Richardson, Alexander Knox

The story

In 1883 Sudan, an army of 10,000 poorly trained but well-armed Egyptian troops is lured into the desert. Commanding the force is former Bombay Army soldier Colonel William "Billy" Hicks (Edward Underdown), now a private individual paid by the Egyptian government. Hicks' army is defeated by native tribesmen led by Muhammad Ahmed (Laurence Olivier), a Nubian religious leader of the Samaniyya order who has declared himself Mahdi.

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