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List Price: $14.94 Our Price: $10.99 You Save: $3.95 Features • Anamorphic • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • Dubbed • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 15 June, 1966 DVD Release : 07 May, 2002 |
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Khartoum description Set in the expanse of the Sudan desert in the midst of holy war, Khartoum (1966) plays like an attempt to work the Lawrence of Arabia magic on the (mostly) true story of eccentric British general Charles "Chinese" Gordon in 1884 North Africa. The magnificent opening desert battle suggests David Lean's epic sweep, at least until the film s ... review details |
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| The movie was suggested by Lytton Strachey's fine essay on Gordon that appeared in his classic EMINENT VICTORIANS, and indeed the story was brewing for a long time before a combination of international interests unleashed KHARTOUM in the English speaking world.
It was a time when Olivier, newly remarried and the surprised father of a young family, was desperate for money and wouild snatch up any job, so the film world was brightened, if that's the word, by Olivier appearing in any old movie if they gave him enough lucre. It's as if he was saying, I did the repertory thing for thirty years, it's time for a payoff. Thus we got extra helpings of ham in BUNNY LAKE IS MISSING, THE SHOES OF THE FISHERMAN, THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN, really any old blockbuster. It was a rare 60s movie that didn't have room for Olivier in it. He was never good in any of them, but in KHARTOUM his performance as the Mahdi causes enough offense nearly to justify, years later, the recent subway bombings in London. With russet makeup smeared over his face (slightly different shade than the blackface he used in OTHELLO), Olivier bites every piece of scenery known to man, playing rhe Mahdi as a mad tyrannical prophet of Islam, like a Westerners fantasy of Al Qaeda, hollering for white men's blood and letting his strange fantasies about Allah cloud his limited intellect. Next to him, Gordon (Charlton Heston) almost looks like a sane man. Maybe the filmmakers were making some sort of antiwar statement. At this distance it's hard to say. What we see is pretty frightening, for there's over the top and then there's OVER THE TOP AS THE MAHDI. |
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