Eliot Elisofon

Khartoum

Basil Dearden, Eliot Elisofon

Charlton Heston, Laurence Olivier

English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians from the Sudan, Gordon stays on to protect the people of Khartoum, who are under threat of being conquered by a Muslim army.