Khartoum is truly a grand film, on the level of Lawrence of Arabia in quality of photography and writing (but not in length). It's a true story of "Chinese Gordon" who successfully eliminated the slave trade in the Sudan (Khartoum is its capital...read the complete Khartoum (1966) review at Christian Spotlight on the Movies
Military hero, mystic, egotist and a Bible-reading drinker—the man that was General Gordon was a many faceted character.
And his opponent, the Sudanese leader known as the Mahdi, also was a military genius and a mystic, a man with a vision but more...read the complete Khartoum (1966) review at Cleveland Press (Tony Mastroianni)