After the Egyptian army is destroyed in a battle in the Sudan in the 1880's in a Jihad by The Mahdi, the British government is in a quandary
General Charles "Chinese" Gordon, a folk hero in the Sudan who cleared the area of the slave trade, is asked to save the day.
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Charlton Heston as Gen. Charles 'Chinese' Gordon
Laurence Olivier as The Mahdi
