Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Mar 30, 2018 1:54:08 GMT
Khartoum (1966), DVR'd off of THIS Channel.
Very well-told historical drama about British Gen. Charles "Chinese" Gordon (played by Charlton Heston) and his dealings with the army of the Mahdi (played by Sir Laurence Olivier) in 1885 Sudan. Some of the dialogue could easily have been written quite recently:
Gen. Charles 'Chinese' Gordon (Charlton Heston): The Mahdi plans to lay siege to Khartoum. Take it by force. To slaughter all the Egyptians - and those Sudanese who haven't accepted him.
Col. J.D.H. Stewart (Richard Johnson): [incredulous] But... there are 35,000 people in Khartoum.
Gen. Charles 'Chinese' Gordon: Those are his purposes. And I believe him. The man is sincere. He believes utterly in the Divine necessity for what he's doing. How could I have been such a stumbling fool! I'm a man who will question anything, except my own religious convictions. The Mahdi's no different. There's vanity for you! I seem to have suffered from the illusion that I have a monopoly on God.
Very well-told historical drama about British Gen. Charles "Chinese" Gordon (played by Charlton Heston) and his dealings with the army of the Mahdi (played by Sir Laurence Olivier) in 1885 Sudan. Some of the dialogue could easily have been written quite recently:
Gen. Charles 'Chinese' Gordon (Charlton Heston): The Mahdi plans to lay siege to Khartoum. Take it by force. To slaughter all the Egyptians - and those Sudanese who haven't accepted him.
Col. J.D.H. Stewart (Richard Johnson): [incredulous] But... there are 35,000 people in Khartoum.
Gen. Charles 'Chinese' Gordon: Those are his purposes. And I believe him. The man is sincere. He believes utterly in the Divine necessity for what he's doing. How could I have been such a stumbling fool! I'm a man who will question anything, except my own religious convictions. The Mahdi's no different. There's vanity for you! I seem to have suffered from the illusion that I have a monopoly on God.