Key Crew
Director
Basil Dearden, Eliot Elisofon
Producer
Julian Blaustein
Writer
Robert Ardrey
Editor
Fergus McDonell
Keywords
epic
africa
siege
british empire
islam
sudan
victorian england
desert
insurgent
decapitated head
british colonialism
battle strategy
british officer
desert battle
19th century
british occupation
khartoum, sudan
historical battle
british imperialism
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An epically staged historical drama about the uprising in the Sudan by the Mahdi (Sir Laurence Olivier) and his army of Dervishes against the British Empire. Prime Minster William Gladstone (Sir Ralph Richardson) was initially opposed to committing troops to reverse this defeat, and so instead decid ...
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