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Khartoum

  • 1966
  • Approved
  • 2h 14min
VALUTAZIONE IMDb
6,8/10
8833
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Charlton Heston and Laurence Olivier in Khartoum (1966)
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In Sudan, tra il 1884 e il 1885, le forze egiziane guidate dal generale britannico Charles «Chinese» Gordon difendono Khartoum dall'invasione dell'esercito musulmano guidato da un fanatico r... Leggi tuttoIn Sudan, tra il 1884 e il 1885, le forze egiziane guidate dal generale britannico Charles «Chinese» Gordon difendono Khartoum dall'invasione dell'esercito musulmano guidato da un fanatico religioso, Mohammed Ahmed el Mahdi.In Sudan, tra il 1884 e il 1885, le forze egiziane guidate dal generale britannico Charles «Chinese» Gordon difendono Khartoum dall'invasione dell'esercito musulmano guidato da un fanatico religioso, Mohammed Ahmed el Mahdi.

  • Regia
    • Basil Dearden
    • Eliot Elisofon
  • Sceneggiatura
    • Robert Ardrey
  • Star
    • Charlton Heston
    • Laurence Olivier
    • Richard Johnson
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    6,8/10
    8833
    LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
    • Regia
      • Basil Dearden
      • Eliot Elisofon
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Robert Ardrey
    • Star
      • Charlton Heston
      • Laurence Olivier
      • Richard Johnson
    • 89Recensioni degli utenti
    • 40Recensioni della critica
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    • Candidato a 1 Oscar
      • 3 candidature totali

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    Charlton Heston
    Charlton Heston
    • General Charles 'Chinese' Gordon
    Laurence Olivier
    Laurence Olivier
    • The Mahdi
    Richard Johnson
    Richard Johnson
    • Colonel J.D.H. Stewart
    Ralph Richardson
    Ralph Richardson
    • William Gladstone
    Alexander Knox
    Alexander Knox
    • Sir Evelyn Baring
    Johnny Sekka
    Johnny Sekka
    • Khaleel
    Michael Hordern
    Michael Hordern
    • Lord Granville
    Zia Mohyeddin
    Zia Mohyeddin
    • Zobeir Pasha
    Marne Maitland
    Marne Maitland
    • Sheikh Osman
    Nigel Green
    Nigel Green
    • General Wolseley
    Hugh Williams
    Hugh Williams
    • Lord Hartington
    Ralph Michael
    Ralph Michael
    • Sir Charles Dilke
    Douglas Wilmer
    Douglas Wilmer
    • Khalifa Abdullah
    Edward Underdown
    Edward Underdown
    • Colonel William Hicks
    Peter Arne
    Peter Arne
    • Major Kitchener
    Alan Tilvern
    Alan Tilvern
    • Awaan
    Michael Anthony
    • Herbin
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    Neville Becker
    Neville Becker
    • assistant, messenger to Gordon
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    • Regia
      • Basil Dearden
      • Eliot Elisofon
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Robert Ardrey
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    8coop-16

    wonderful,semi-historical epic

    This film, which I saw in downtown Detroit when I was eight years old,remains one of my all-time favorites.Its a little talky, a little pretentious, but still grand fun, with exciting battle sequences, wonderful, over the top performances,and a truly stirring, if corny score. Robert Ardrey, notorious theorist of the "territorial imperative",wrote the script, and Basil Dearden directed. Martin Scorsese once listed it among his guilty pleasures.
    9Nazi_Fighter_David

    An epic entertainment!

    Heston essays one of his best roles as Charles "Chinese" Gordon, the patriot who thrives on challenge... Gordon becomes a national hero for his exploits in China and his ill-fated defense of Khartoum...

    Gordon is a Christian with the Bible constantly under his arm... A national hero who abolished slavery in China... An honest man revered by the British, as well as by the foreigners... A martyr-warrior who ever truly loves the Sudan and cannot, under 'his' God, leave it to the misery and the sickness of which he once cured it...

    Gladstone ((Ralph Richardson) decides not to send troops to the trouble area... Instead he will send General Gordon... Gladstone realizes if Gordon is sent to Khartoum and fails to prevent a massacre, it is he who will be blamed; not the Briish government... For heroes are supposed to perform miracles...

    En route to Khartoum, Gordon discovers that most of Britain's allies and friends of his former exploits now support the mystic Mahdi... But when Gordon with Col. Stewart (Richard Johnson) finally reach Khartoum, the people give him a warm welcome... They feel their problems must soon be over now that Gordon Pasha has arrived...

    Things, however, do not go as planned... Khartoum runs out of food... The Mahdi's men infiltrate the city... And Gordon seek a plan...

    Lawrence Olivier is superb as the fanatical Arab leader, Muhammed Ahmed Al Mahdi, the Expected-One... His softly glowing black eyes never blink... His measured voice spreads holy terrors: "I have been instructed by the Lord Mohammed, Peace be upon Him, to worship in the Khartoum mosque. Therefore I must take Khartoum by the sword."

    With outstanding color photography, exquisite sets and costumes, "Khartoum" has great moments:

    • The bloody and brutal massacre of an entire army in a burning desert...


    • The Gordon/Mahdi meeting... The only non-historic element of the film which, in fact, never took place - contributes enormously to the dramatic effect of the motion picture.


    • The raid on the Mahdi's own supplies...


    • The exodus of all foreigners and Europeans out of the city...


    With an Oscar-Nominated script mounted on a grand scale, "Khartoum" is an epic entertainment, a fine and powerful motion picture...

    The exploits, the single-handed capacity Gordon Pasha displayed again and again to control large groups of people quite unarmed and alone, is almost magical; quite scary, in fact...
    7rmax304823

    Colorful but pedestrian.

    SPOILERS.

    I first saw this some years ago and found it impressive but maybe I've seen Lawrence of Arabia too often in the interim. It owes a lot of Lawrence, appearing as it did four years after. As in Lawrence,a lone British officer is sent to the desert to set things straight. He's mysterious, a paradox. He rides camels and gets into battles with the enemy. He fails in his mission.

    Well, Charlton Heston as "Chinese" Gordon doesn't really seem too mysterious when you come down to it, even though he himself tells us, "My life is not an open book. Not to you, not to any man. Not even to myself." Yet he's a pretty normal guy. People keep calling him "vain" behind his back but it doesn't seem like vanity to me when you're trapped behind the lines and expect the British, who sent you there in the first place, to come and get you out.

    Actually Heston is pretty good. His mass is imposing. His uniforms are splendiferous. His acting doesn't shoot out the lights but he's convincing because Gordon is well within his range. Olivier, as the Mahdi, "the expected one," the kind of rabid charismatic warrior that religions seem to generate on a regular basis, gives a little better performance because, let's face it, he's a more efficient ham. You killed to prevent killing, he tells Gorden. "I kill to prevent more killing. Tell me, Gordon Pasha, where is the difference?" And he holds both his hands up and gives them a little twist, while looking slyly out of the corner of his eyes at Heston. For Heston such techniques would be infra dig. Olivier plays this in blackface, by the way. All of the Egyptians, as well as the Sudanese, are in blackface. Man, these Egyptians are dark. Not just swarthy. Not even dark like sub-Saharan Africa is dark, but a shiny bluish-black like a freshly polished boot.

    It's not a bad film and it does describe Gordon and his predicament in intelligible terms. We're never at a loss for what's going on. But Lawrence of Arabia, inevitably, keeps springing to mind. And Khartoum seems plodding by comparison, especially in the direction. You may remember, to take a single example, the scene in which Lawrence and his irregulars blow up a train and then puncture the cars with machine gun bullets. Lawrence shouts for them to cease fire because the passenger cars are being turned into lacework. Nobody hears him, so he fires a flare. No one pays attention, so Lawrence must run out in front of his own guns screaming at his men to stop shooting. Finally the firing sputters raggedly to a stop.

    There's nothing like that here. In this movie, Gordon generals a battle on horseback with the Madhi's supporters and everybody -- every one of the extras -- runs to his mark and does what he's supposed to. The battles are full of the same extras in long shot, slashing away at each other with scimitars or whatever they are. Nobody seems to get dirty. The dialogue is strictly functional. And one has to think of Lean's USE of the desert setting. That fulsomely ominous vermilion sun peeking up over the flat spirit level of a horizon at dawn. We have the desert here too, but it might almost have been a painted backdrop. It isn't a presence. Dearden uses a lot of swooping helicopter shots as if to say, "Wow -- what a vast emptiness." But we don't get to KNOW it. We don't get to see its rocks or its animals or is leisurely dust devils. It might as well be a studio jungle as a desert.

    The score is good, though. It borrows from Eric Wolfgang Korngold but it's effective -- sweeping, majestic, and rife with breast-bursting button-popping imperial sentiment.

    In the end it's a watchable epic movie. If you haven't seen Lawrence of Arabia, rent the two of them and show them in succession -- if you can stay awake that long. It's the difference between a good-enough movie and a great movie.
    9Rich-99

    Good Drama And For Once History Is Not Too Distorted

    The siege of Khartoum and its loss under General Charles "Chinese" Gordon is one of those epic tales the Victorians loved. Gordon was such a flamboyant character that even Hollywood could not match him. "Khartoum" gives us the Victorian Epic while at the same time the seedier backroom Victorian politics that essentially sent Gordon to his death along with the citizens of Khartoum. Charleton Heston is quite good as Gordon ably giving us the many enigmatic facets of the real man's character. But even that falls short as I think Gordon is too complex a character for any actor. Olivier in black face as the Mahdi may offend the political correctness crowd but his performance is excellent, fair and avoids lapsing into carricature. The physical production is quite impressive with 2nd unit director Yakima Canut staging some very impressive battle scenes. If you want a sequel to this film than I would recommend the original 1930's version of "The Four Feathers" (which stared a very young John Gielgud) which takes place some 10 years after the events of "Khartoum" and centers on the retaking of the Sudan. Interesting to have a "sequel" come 30 years before. There is a TV remake of "The Four Feathers". Avoid it like the plague!
    vaughan.birbeck

    Gordon *was* a 'liberal!

    Charles George Gordon was one of those eccentric individualists like Lawrence of Arabia who spring up in British history. He was a deeply religious man who spent most of his hard-earned salary (he often accepted *less* pay than he was offered) on charitable work. He helped the poor, educating destitute boys and providing pensions for the elderly. The grafitto 'God Bless the Kernel (Colonel)' was often seen scrawled on walls near his home.

    He was also distrusted by the Establishment. A brilliant tactician and commander of troops he was constantly passed over for postings abroad because he was unpredictable. When he was asked to report on the grievances of the Basuto people by the British administration in South Africa, he sided with the Basuto and was shipped home very quickly. As Captain Willard says in 'Apocalypse Now': "They didn't dig what he had to tell them." You have to remember, too, that Gordon was a national hero. This was like firing Norman Schwarzkopf after the Gulf War.

    The film fails to touch the depths of Gordon's character and in some cases is well off the mark (Charlton Heston seems far too interested in that Egyptian dancer!). We are shown that Gordon could be ruthless in the pursuit of justice (he executes a servant for theft, regardless of any personal feelings).

    The fact remains that Gordon was a man of enormous moral and physical courage. He would not desert Khartoum and leave the people to be slaughtered. It now seems likely (and more in character) that he died fighting to the end.

    The film is a tribute to that courage and some of the best moments occur when we are allowed to see the twinges of self-doubt and anxiety that Gordon suffered and overcame. The well-staged action scenes are like decoration on the moral diemmas at the heart of the film. Charlton Heston is physically wrong for the part but gives one of his best performances. He isn't outclassed by Olivier in any way, an achievement in itself.

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      Khartoum (1966) was analyzed by David Levering Lewis in the 1995 book "Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies," edited by Mark C. Carnes. The article notes that producer Julian Blaustein sent a copy of the script to the real-life Mahdi's grandson, who responded that although his grandfather and General Charles "Chinese" Gordon never actually met, "...it's a very fine script." When Blaustein apologized for this error, the grandson replied, "Ah, but Mr. Blaustein, they should have."
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      Prime Minister Gladstone is shown in Parliament sitting on a red bench. The benches of the House of Commons have traditionally always been green.
    • Citazioni

      Col. J.D.H. Stewart: Why did you let them talk you into this mission?

      Gen. Charles 'Chinese' Gordon: As is well known, I, ah..regard myself as a religious man, yet I belong to no church. I'm an able soldier, yet I abhor armies. I can even add that I've been introduced to hundreds of women, but never married. in other words, no one's ever talked me into anything.

    • Versioni alternative
      The cinema version was uncut but UK video and DVD releases were cut by 29 secs by the BBFC to edit footage of dangerous horsefalls.
    • Connessioni
      Edited into Kronos: Raiders from Outer Space (1967)

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    • Data di uscita
      • 15 giugno 1966 (Stati Uniti)
    • Paese di origine
      • Regno Unito
    • Lingua
      • Inglese
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    • Azienda produttrice
      • Julian Blaustein Productions Ltd.
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