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# Khartoum [DVD]

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Review: Great movie - I loved Charlton Heston in this role as Charles “Chinese” Gordon, who stood by the Egyptian people in Khartoum instead of abandoning them as commanded by the British government. The battle scenes were outstanding and the courage of the defenders was touching considering the fate that they faced. I bought the book about the real life Charles Gordon to see how much reality was protracted in the movie..
Review: Classic inspirational story, classic film, but do read the history too - This is a wonderful story and a riveting film, as the other reviewers have noted. This DVD version is crisp and clear, well done. The final narrator comment is on the mark -- A world in which there is no room for Gordons is doomed to turn to sand. If you would like to learn in exquisite detail what the Mahdi was truly like, his background, the games he played interposing himself between God and man, his private vices versus public face of holiness, the extent of his crimes against duped humanity, how he died [the narrator fo the film says we will never know, but Rudolph Slatin reported the cause of death more than 100 years ago], then by all means read "Fire and Sword in the Sudan," written by Colonel Sir Rudolph Slatin Pasha, an Austrian officer held captive inside the inner circles of both the Mahdi and his successor the Khalifa Abdullahi for twelve agonizing years. General Gordon's severed head was brought to Slatin in prison before it was taken as prize to the Mahdi. Slatin, an expert linguist and accomplished field commander, was appointed by Gordon as governor of Darfur and led troops in the field against rebels for one year after being cut off from all contact with his government. He played convert to Islam as a strategy to inspire his troops and to stay alive as a personal slave to the Mahdi and the Khalifa, biding his time until he could make good his escape. Slatin's story is at least as inspiring as the life of the legendary General Gordon. Several anecdotes Slatin reveals about Gordon give a special insight into the kind nature of the great but human general. My only complaint about "Khartoum" -- The movie was grossly slanderous toward General Hicks, who commanded the troops massacred in the opening scene. Rediculed in the movie as a "fool," the facts show him a great hero. When questioned by one of his friends before the fatal expedition in which Hicks died and his 10,000 troops were wiped out, Hicks said, "I am as Jesus Christ in the midst of the Jews." He knew he was about to become a martyr. He and his handfull of officers all agreed their chances were bleak. Still he marched off, thinking his honor might be impugned if he refused to advance. When the Mahdi made Hicks an offer to accept his surrender with terms and passed out hundreds of handbills along the route of march documenting that offer, Hicks refused. He died to protect his honor just as Gordon later died. An officer sent to his death for nothing by ignorant politicians. Sound familiar? Sir Winston Churchill's book "The River War" is a brilliantly told first-hand account of the retaking of the Sudan. Churchill's written description of the charge of the 21st Lancers is as vivid as any war scene ever filmed. General Gordon's Khartoum Journals are also available in several different printings. "Khartoum" will open an entirely new world to those interested enough to study the history. Those were days when 3,000 men could be killed in one twenty minute clash by spear and sword, rifle and pistol. The scenes of bravery on a large scale are like nothing we could imagine today. Many of us tend to panic at the scale of human life taken in today's war on terror. We forget the huge scale of the battles our ancestors fought before the dawn of the age of modern weaponry and terrorist attacks. We underestimate the ability of a strong society to absorb incredible blows in battle, and risk joining the ranks of the terrorized and self-defeated. Abraham Lincoln once wrote that if this great nation is to ever die, it will be by suicide, not at the hands of foreign armies incapable of stealing a single drink from the Ohio river.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Contributor | Alan Tilvern, Alec Mango, Alexander Knox, Basil Dearden, Charlton Heston, Douglas Wilmer, Edward Underdown, Eliot Elisofon, George Pastell, Hugh Williams, Jerome Willis, Johnny Sekka, Laurence Olivier, Leo Genn, Lisa Guiraut, Marne Maitland, Michael Anthony, Michael Hordern, Nigel Green, Peter Arne, Ralph Michael, Ralph Richardson, Richard Johnson, Roger Delgado, Ronald Leigh-Hunt, Zia Mohyeddin Contributor Alan Tilvern, Alec Mango, Alexander Knox, Basil Dearden, Charlton Heston, Douglas Wilmer, Edward Underdown, Eliot Elisofon, George Pastell, Hugh Williams, Jerome Willis, Johnny Sekka, Laurence Olivier, Leo Genn, Lisa Guiraut, Marne Maitland, Michael Anthony, Michael Hordern, Nigel Green, Peter Arne, Ralph Michael, Ralph Richardson, Richard Johnson, Roger Delgado, Ronald Leigh-Hunt, Zia Mohyeddin See more |
| Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,547 Reviews |
| Format | Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen |
| Genre | Drama |
| Language | English |
| Runtime | 2 hours and 16 minutes |

## Product Details

- **Format:** Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
- **Genre:** Drama
- **Language:** English
- **Runtime:** 2 hours and 16 minutes

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great movie
*by M***. on December 18, 2025*

I loved Charlton Heston in this role as Charles “Chinese” Gordon, who stood by the Egyptian people in Khartoum instead of abandoning them as commanded by the British government. The battle scenes were outstanding and the courage of the defenders was touching considering the fate that they faced. I bought the book about the real life Charles Gordon to see how much reality was protracted in the movie..

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Classic inspirational story, classic film, but do read the history too
*by R***D on October 9, 2005*

This is a wonderful story and a riveting film, as the other reviewers have noted. This DVD version is crisp and clear, well done. The final narrator comment is on the mark -- A world in which there is no room for Gordons is doomed to turn to sand. If you would like to learn in exquisite detail what the Mahdi was truly like, his background, the games he played interposing himself between God and man, his private vices versus public face of holiness, the extent of his crimes against duped humanity, how he died [the narrator fo the film says we will never know, but Rudolph Slatin reported the cause of death more than 100 years ago], then by all means read "Fire and Sword in the Sudan," written by Colonel Sir Rudolph Slatin Pasha, an Austrian officer held captive inside the inner circles of both the Mahdi and his successor the Khalifa Abdullahi for twelve agonizing years. General Gordon's severed head was brought to Slatin in prison before it was taken as prize to the Mahdi. Slatin, an expert linguist and accomplished field commander, was appointed by Gordon as governor of Darfur and led troops in the field against rebels for one year after being cut off from all contact with his government. He played convert to Islam as a strategy to inspire his troops and to stay alive as a personal slave to the Mahdi and the Khalifa, biding his time until he could make good his escape. Slatin's story is at least as inspiring as the life of the legendary General Gordon. Several anecdotes Slatin reveals about Gordon give a special insight into the kind nature of the great but human general. My only complaint about "Khartoum" -- The movie was grossly slanderous toward General Hicks, who commanded the troops massacred in the opening scene. Rediculed in the movie as a "fool," the facts show him a great hero. When questioned by one of his friends before the fatal expedition in which Hicks died and his 10,000 troops were wiped out, Hicks said, "I am as Jesus Christ in the midst of the Jews." He knew he was about to become a martyr. He and his handfull of officers all agreed their chances were bleak. Still he marched off, thinking his honor might be impugned if he refused to advance. When the Mahdi made Hicks an offer to accept his surrender with terms and passed out hundreds of handbills along the route of march documenting that offer, Hicks refused. He died to protect his honor just as Gordon later died. An officer sent to his death for nothing by ignorant politicians. Sound familiar? Sir Winston Churchill's book "The River War" is a brilliantly told first-hand account of the retaking of the Sudan. Churchill's written description of the charge of the 21st Lancers is as vivid as any war scene ever filmed. General Gordon's Khartoum Journals are also available in several different printings. "Khartoum" will open an entirely new world to those interested enough to study the history. Those were days when 3,000 men could be killed in one twenty minute clash by spear and sword, rifle and pistol. The scenes of bravery on a large scale are like nothing we could imagine today. Many of us tend to panic at the scale of human life taken in today's war on terror. We forget the huge scale of the battles our ancestors fought before the dawn of the age of modern weaponry and terrorist attacks. We underestimate the ability of a strong society to absorb incredible blows in battle, and risk joining the ranks of the terrorized and self-defeated. Abraham Lincoln once wrote that if this great nation is to ever die, it will be by suicide, not at the hands of foreign armies incapable of stealing a single drink from the Ohio river.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ An okay military epic.
*by R***T on February 28, 2023*

I'd seen this film a couple of times during the 70s and 80s. It's not great entertainment, but it's one of those movies that passes the time for dudes on a lazy weekend afternoon. Heston plays a lord with questionable morals not brought up nor otherwise addressed in the movie, who defends the fortress city of Khartoun. What has always gotten me about this movie is why the moat was not dug deeper, and then extended as the water retreated to high season levels. I'm just baffled by that. Because had that been done, then Heston's character probably would have successfully defended the city. But that's just me. It's a dude film. About dudes fighting dudes during the height of the Victorian era in North Africa. Lots of shots fired, lots of camels and horses falling in front of the camera ... other stunts ... stuff like that. It's okay for what it is, but I think the film could have high lighted some of the strategy and tactics and let the viewing audience in on why certain decisions were made and others not. It's not a deep film but had the gloss of being an important one, and gets your hopes up before dashing them later on, so its kind of manipulative in that way. Again, it's week end fodder. Don't take it too seriously.

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