Khartoum Overview:

Khartoum (1966) was a Action - Adventure Film directed by Basil Dearden and Eliot Elisofon and produced by Julian Blaustein.

Academy Awards 1966 --- Ceremony Number 39 (source: AMPAS)

AwardRecipientResult
Best WritingRobert ArdreyNominated
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William Gladstone: I don't trust any man who consults God before he consults me.


Gen. Charles 'Chinese' Gordon: Colonel, what are the chances of my sacking you as my aide?
Col. J.D.H. Stewart: If any exist General, please be assured that I'd be the first to point them out to you.


The Mahdi: It is sometimes wise, Gordon Pasha, to provide the man with a few sunny hours of fraudulent hope so that when night comes he will have a more perfect inward vision of the truth of his hopelessness.


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Lewis Gilbert was attached as director at one point.
The real Major General Charles Gordon was only 5 feet 5 inches tall.
Burt Lancaster turned down the role of Major General Gordon.
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