喀土穆
Khartoum
Release: 1966-06-09
·Runtime: 134m
·★ 6.3
历史
战争
冒险
一部很大氣很優秀但又被眾人忽略的佳作,接近五星!查爾登·海斯頓(Charlton Heston)始終都是正義英雄的角色,高大挺拔的外型配合滄桑的氣質,將高登的內在與外在演繹得恰到好處。令人驚喜的是勞倫斯·奧利弗(Laurence Olivier )改頭換面,抹面化妝後的穆罕默德·阿里,似乎總令人聯想到阿里王朝的開國君主第一代的南征北討的軍事梟雄。按時間推算,大概1880年崛起的赫迪夫應是陶菲克一世,似乎故事的原型只能取其象徵性,不作過多渲染。奧利弗爵士的演技太爐火純青了,招牌的正邪莫辨複雜人物演繹起來舉重若輕,絲毫不遜於海斯頓,絕對壓得住陣腳! 作為一個異國人身處在一個原本不屬於自身文化的國度裡,高登的角色顯得是那麼尷尬。一面是英國帝國主義下的官員,令一面又要獲得伊斯蘭人物的擁戴,人性在兩面壓逼下到底是向善,抑或向惡呢?人道主義在硝煙瀰漫的國土中,人心惶惶的情況下,又處於一個怎樣的位置?自身的信仰起到一個十分重要的關鍵作用,那不是基督徒或穆斯林的宗教信仰,而是人對真善美的追求,於是成就了偉大的人格,而崇高往往又通向一條悲劇之路。
Production Countries
United Kingdom
Production Companies
Julian Blaustein Productions Ltd.
United Artists
Trailers & Videos
Cast
Charlton Heston
as Gen. Charles 'Chinese' Gordon
Laurence Olivier
as Mahdi
Richard Johnson
as Colonel Stewart
Hugh Williams
as Lord Hartington
Peter Arne
as Major Kitchener
Leo Genn
as Narrator (voice)
Alexander Knox
as Sir Evelyn Baring
Michael Hordern
as Lord Granville
Marne Maitland
as Sheikh Osman
Douglas Wilmer
as Khalifa Abdullah
Edward Underdown
as Colonel William Hicks
Johnny Sekka
as Khaleel
Zia Mohyeddin
as Zobeir Pasha
Nigel Green
as General Wolseley
Ralph Michael
as Sir Charles Dilke
Roger Delgado
as Sheikh Abdul Rahim
Ralph Richardson
as William Gladstone
Alan Tilvern
as Awaan
Jerome Willis
as Frank Power