1 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:12,074 -= www.OpenSubtitles.org =- 2 00:06:50,641 --> 00:06:53,940 The Nile was always there. 3 00:06:53,978 --> 00:06:57,914 Long before Cairo, long before the tombs of kings... 4 00:06:57,948 --> 00:07:02,078 it was the reason for everything. 5 00:07:02,119 --> 00:07:06,613 It's a little hard to grasp how far this river's been flowing. 6 00:07:06,657 --> 00:07:09,182 This is the rain that fell on Abyssinia. 7 00:07:09,226 --> 00:07:12,787 These are the waters drained from central African lakes... 8 00:07:12,830 --> 00:07:18,200 that have flowed 4,000 miles to make Egypt green. 9 00:07:20,304 --> 00:07:22,636 The Nile has its memories. 10 00:07:22,673 --> 00:07:26,666 The story of Khartoum is a recent one... 11 00:07:26,710 --> 00:07:28,439 less than a century old. 12 00:07:28,479 --> 00:07:31,937 That's yesterday in this part of the world. 13 00:07:31,982 --> 00:07:34,314 But however far back you may go... 14 00:07:34,351 --> 00:07:39,084 all the Nile's recollections have several things in common. 15 00:07:39,123 --> 00:07:41,819 There's always God, for instance. 16 00:07:41,859 --> 00:07:45,090 Or, if you prefer, the gods. 17 00:07:45,129 --> 00:07:47,063 It seems to have been quite impossible... 18 00:07:47,097 --> 00:07:48,655 to live beside this river... 19 00:07:48,699 --> 00:07:52,362 and not to have visions of eternity. 20 00:07:52,403 --> 00:07:55,201 And there's always mystery. 21 00:07:55,239 --> 00:07:58,140 You never quite know. 22 00:07:58,175 --> 00:08:02,441 You wind up with a few questions that no one can answer. 23 00:08:06,584 --> 00:08:08,051 One more thing. 24 00:08:08,085 --> 00:08:11,680 Why is it that everything was always so big... 25 00:08:11,722 --> 00:08:14,247 outsized, larger-than-life? 26 00:08:14,291 --> 00:08:17,226 Vanity? Perhaps. 27 00:08:17,261 --> 00:08:19,855 Or visions. 28 00:08:19,897 --> 00:08:22,627 Vanity was always mixed up with vision. 29 00:08:22,666 --> 00:08:25,032 And that's part of this story, too. 30 00:08:26,770 --> 00:08:31,434 But it's the Nile that remains the original fact. 31 00:08:31,475 --> 00:08:35,912 The Nile and, of course, the desert. 32 00:08:38,115 --> 00:08:39,980 Move up, up the Nile. 33 00:08:40,017 --> 00:08:42,645 Leave Egypt behind and the green land. 34 00:08:42,686 --> 00:08:44,381 Enter the Sudan. 35 00:08:44,421 --> 00:08:49,085 A million square miles of desert and scrub. 36 00:08:49,126 --> 00:08:54,325 It was here out of the vast, hot African nowhere... 37 00:08:54,365 --> 00:08:57,198 that a man of the Nile, a man of vision... 38 00:08:57,234 --> 00:09:01,364 and mystery and vanity rose up in the 1880s... 39 00:09:01,405 --> 00:09:04,806 to challenge first Egypt, and then the world. 40 00:09:04,842 --> 00:09:09,142 He called himself the Mahdi, the Expected One... 41 00:09:09,179 --> 00:09:13,013 and he gathered about him his desert tribesmen... 42 00:09:13,050 --> 00:09:18,579 and he cried out for holy war. 43 00:09:18,622 --> 00:09:21,557 Egypt hired an army of 10,000 men... 44 00:09:21,592 --> 00:09:24,083 and a professional English soldier to command them... 45 00:09:24,128 --> 00:09:28,121 and sent them 1,600 miles up the Nile to Khartoum... 46 00:09:28,165 --> 00:09:33,159 and on into the desert to destroy this man, the Mahdi. 47 00:09:33,203 --> 00:09:37,799 Our history might have taken a quite different turn... 48 00:09:37,841 --> 00:09:42,744 had Colonel William Hicks not forgotten, if he ever knew... 49 00:09:42,780 --> 00:09:45,806 the Sudan's great fact-- 50 00:09:45,849 --> 00:09:49,216 its immensity. 51 00:09:49,253 --> 00:09:53,883 The Mahdi led him on and on... and on. 52 00:11:05,262 --> 00:11:08,060 - Keep those men back! - Right you are! Keep order! 53 00:11:08,098 --> 00:11:09,827 Back! 54 00:12:15,365 --> 00:12:17,890 Bugler! 55 00:13:04,481 --> 00:13:06,676 Deploy! 56 00:13:52,763 --> 00:13:55,561 Get those rifles to the high ground! 57 00:14:25,562 --> 00:14:28,531 Mahdi! 58 00:15:32,029 --> 00:15:36,295 Beloveds, you're men of the desert. 59 00:15:36,333 --> 00:15:39,564 My Lord Mohammed, blessings and peace be upon him... 60 00:15:39,603 --> 00:15:41,002 commands me to speak... 61 00:15:41,038 --> 00:15:45,702 for I am the Mahdi, the Expected One... 62 00:15:45,742 --> 00:15:48,575 and I am sprung from the forehead of the family... 63 00:15:48,612 --> 00:15:51,172 of my Lord Mohammed, blessings be upon him. 64 00:15:51,214 --> 00:15:56,015 My beloveds, did I not promise thee... 65 00:15:56,053 --> 00:15:59,511 a miracle would fall from heaven from the Prophet Mohammed? 66 00:15:59,556 --> 00:16:02,616 And was not this so? 67 00:16:07,764 --> 00:16:11,063 We fight a holy war against the fat and the corrupt... 68 00:16:11,101 --> 00:16:13,001 and the sinful and the unbelieving. 69 00:16:13,036 --> 00:16:17,871 We fight a war to restore to a disobedient, forgetful world... 70 00:16:17,908 --> 00:16:21,469 the laws and commands of the Prophet Mohammed... 71 00:16:21,511 --> 00:16:24,105 blessings and peace be upon him... 72 00:16:24,147 --> 00:16:28,948 whose instrument on Earth I am. 73 00:16:28,986 --> 00:16:34,856 Exalt ye not that men are dead, since more must die tomorrow. 74 00:16:34,891 --> 00:16:39,521 My beloveds, in a vision... 75 00:16:39,563 --> 00:16:42,225 the Prophet Mohammed has instructed me. 76 00:16:42,265 --> 00:16:46,634 Let mountain and desert tremble. 77 00:16:46,670 --> 00:16:50,299 Let cities shudder, and let the fat and the rich... 78 00:16:50,340 --> 00:16:53,969 and the corrupt in far places mark this moment... 79 00:16:54,011 --> 00:16:59,540 and turn in fear of all those miracles to come! 80 00:16:59,583 --> 00:17:04,543 And let none in all Islam, from this victorious hour... 81 00:17:04,588 --> 00:17:10,117 believe I am other than the Expected One-- 82 00:17:10,160 --> 00:17:12,355 the true Mahdi. 83 00:17:14,031 --> 00:17:17,626 Beloveds, it is the hour of prayer. 84 00:17:30,113 --> 00:17:36,279 Explain to me, somebody, where in heaven's name is Wolseley? 85 00:17:36,319 --> 00:17:38,879 Explain to me how a rabble of tribesmen... 86 00:17:38,922 --> 00:17:40,856 armed only with spears and swords... 87 00:17:40,891 --> 00:17:42,984 can destroy a modern army? 88 00:17:43,026 --> 00:17:44,254 Not a British army, Prime Minister. 89 00:17:44,294 --> 00:17:45,761 - To the last man. - An Egyptian army. 90 00:17:45,796 --> 00:17:47,423 I don't care whose army. 91 00:17:47,464 --> 00:17:51,594 10,000 men-- a British officer commanding. 92 00:17:51,635 --> 00:17:55,230 Why did Egypt have to hire an Englishman? 93 00:17:55,272 --> 00:17:56,899 Colonel Hicks was a fool. 94 00:17:56,940 --> 00:17:58,805 Clearly. A fool. 95 00:17:58,842 --> 00:18:01,606 That's not the question. Why did he have to be English? 96 00:18:01,645 --> 00:18:03,442 "Avenge Hicks." 97 00:18:03,480 --> 00:18:06,142 "Uphold Britain's Honor." 98 00:18:06,183 --> 00:18:09,983 Wolseley, I have the press at my throat. 99 00:18:10,020 --> 00:18:12,784 I was summoned to Scotland to explain to Her Majesty. 100 00:18:12,823 --> 00:18:13,983 Will you explain to me-- 101 00:18:14,024 --> 00:18:16,390 Mr. Gladstone, Colonel Stewart... 102 00:18:16,426 --> 00:18:18,951 recently attached to military intelligence. 103 00:18:18,995 --> 00:18:20,360 The colonel's just back from Khartoum. 104 00:18:20,397 --> 00:18:22,592 He will be able to explain better than I. 105 00:18:22,632 --> 00:18:26,090 Colonel Stewart, sit down. 106 00:18:26,136 --> 00:18:29,628 Are these bulletins from Khartoum true? 107 00:18:29,673 --> 00:18:31,971 It's over a month's travel from the Sudan, sir... 108 00:18:32,008 --> 00:18:34,272 so, obviously, I left before these events took place... 109 00:18:34,311 --> 00:18:35,471 but I assume they're true. 110 00:18:35,512 --> 00:18:36,706 Why? 111 00:18:36,746 --> 00:18:39,271 I was sent to Khartoum to assess the Egyptian capacity... 112 00:18:39,316 --> 00:18:40,783 to deal with the uprising. 113 00:18:40,817 --> 00:18:42,284 I assessed it as nil. 114 00:18:42,319 --> 00:18:44,219 Military intelligence? 115 00:18:44,254 --> 00:18:45,915 There's intelligence for you. 116 00:18:45,956 --> 00:18:48,390 After the event, they knew all about it. 117 00:18:48,425 --> 00:18:50,290 My reports were delivered to Sir Evelyn Baring... 118 00:18:50,327 --> 00:18:51,726 in Cairo before the event. 119 00:18:51,761 --> 00:18:55,561 I was aware of the reports. I just didn't believe them. 120 00:18:55,599 --> 00:18:56,964 - I'm Granville. - My Lord. 121 00:18:57,000 --> 00:18:58,831 The reports still don't explain to me, however... 122 00:18:58,869 --> 00:19:00,996 how a modern army could be slaughtered... 123 00:19:01,037 --> 00:19:02,664 virtually to the last man. 124 00:19:02,706 --> 00:19:05,869 Colonel Hicks and his men, sir, were fighting for wages. 125 00:19:05,909 --> 00:19:08,377 The Mahdi and his men were fighting a holy war. 126 00:19:08,411 --> 00:19:10,641 Also, Hicks made a very bad mistake. 127 00:19:10,680 --> 00:19:13,114 He thought he was fighting an ignorant savage, and he wasn't. 128 00:19:13,150 --> 00:19:14,981 The Mahdi is the most extraordinary man... 129 00:19:15,018 --> 00:19:16,610 the Sudan's ever seen. 130 00:19:16,653 --> 00:19:18,086 And he knows his people. 131 00:19:18,121 --> 00:19:20,521 He promised them a miracle. He had to deliver it. 132 00:19:20,557 --> 00:19:24,254 Even so, Colonel Stewart, the extent of the disaster... 133 00:19:24,294 --> 00:19:28,230 The disaster, sir, has little to do with the loss of 10,000 men. 134 00:19:28,265 --> 00:19:29,664 It's their arms. 135 00:19:29,699 --> 00:19:32,532 Egypt was unequal to a horde of desert tribesmen... 136 00:19:32,569 --> 00:19:34,730 when they'd scarcely a pistol to call their own. 137 00:19:34,771 --> 00:19:36,033 What does he do now... 138 00:19:36,072 --> 00:19:38,905 now that they've captured 10,000 Remington rifles... 139 00:19:38,942 --> 00:19:40,375 five batteries of artillery... 140 00:19:40,410 --> 00:19:43,641 and very nearly five million rounds of ammunition? 141 00:19:43,680 --> 00:19:46,444 And I must add what will become of Egypt... 142 00:19:46,483 --> 00:19:50,044 if the Mahdi occupies Khartoum and the Khartoum arsenal? 143 00:19:50,086 --> 00:19:52,782 What a jolly day you'll have with Her Majesty tomorrow. 144 00:19:52,822 --> 00:19:54,915 Gentlemen, let me make one thing clear. 145 00:19:54,958 --> 00:19:57,518 I'm sending no armies up the Nile. 146 00:19:57,561 --> 00:19:59,461 You, Hartington, your imperialist friends-- 147 00:19:59,496 --> 00:20:03,432 you're looking for any excuse to move into central Africa. 148 00:20:03,466 --> 00:20:04,763 We are discussing Egypt. 149 00:20:04,801 --> 00:20:07,065 We have a moral responsibility to Egypt. 150 00:20:07,103 --> 00:20:08,968 A moral responsibility. 151 00:20:09,005 --> 00:20:11,633 We have the Suez Canal. Say it. 152 00:20:11,675 --> 00:20:14,610 Egypt protects Suez. We protect Egypt. 153 00:20:14,644 --> 00:20:17,477 Why in heaven's name can't Egypt protect herself? 154 00:20:17,514 --> 00:20:19,482 We've just heard from Colonel Stewart. 155 00:20:19,516 --> 00:20:20,710 She's not up to it. 156 00:20:20,750 --> 00:20:22,240 Colonel Stewart? 157 00:20:22,285 --> 00:20:24,344 I've no doubt he's like the rest of you. 158 00:20:24,387 --> 00:20:26,218 He can see himself leading a British army... 159 00:20:26,256 --> 00:20:30,420 1,600 miles up the Nile, flags flying, glory for all. 160 00:20:30,460 --> 00:20:31,825 I beg your pardon, sir. 161 00:20:31,861 --> 00:20:33,419 Before I'd accept such a command... 162 00:20:33,463 --> 00:20:34,930 I'd resign my commission. 163 00:20:34,965 --> 00:20:36,330 I wouldn't spend one British life... 164 00:20:36,366 --> 00:20:37,958 to oppose the Mahdi, not in the Sudan. 165 00:20:38,001 --> 00:20:40,265 I assumed you were for intervention. 166 00:20:40,303 --> 00:20:42,828 You didn't ask my opinion, sir. 167 00:20:42,872 --> 00:20:46,273 Well, I want it, by heaven, if it agrees with mine. 168 00:20:46,309 --> 00:20:47,571 Gentlemen, I shall suggest... 169 00:20:47,611 --> 00:20:49,203 to Her Majesty in Scotland tomorrow... 170 00:20:49,246 --> 00:20:51,578 that we shall discharge our obligations to Egypt... 171 00:20:51,615 --> 00:20:55,346 by evacuating all the Egyptians from Khartoum. 172 00:20:55,385 --> 00:20:57,114 How, without either a British army... 173 00:20:57,153 --> 00:20:58,780 or loss of British honor? 174 00:20:58,822 --> 00:21:03,259 I shall entertain suggestions as to just how. 175 00:21:06,229 --> 00:21:07,594 Gordon. 176 00:21:10,734 --> 00:21:12,702 Chinese Gordon. 177 00:21:17,707 --> 00:21:20,073 What's Gordon doing now? 178 00:21:20,110 --> 00:21:21,941 He's made a contract with the king of the Belgians... 179 00:21:21,978 --> 00:21:23,969 to take over the Congo from Mr. Stanley. 180 00:21:24,014 --> 00:21:25,675 We can arrange that with Brussels. 181 00:21:25,715 --> 00:21:27,808 Send Gordon to Khartoum. 182 00:21:27,851 --> 00:21:30,342 The man who led the Chinese Emperor's armies... 183 00:21:30,387 --> 00:21:32,617 to victory after victory carrying only a cane-- 184 00:21:32,656 --> 00:21:33,884 send him to Khartoum. 185 00:21:33,923 --> 00:21:36,255 - Without an army? - Gordon doesn't need an army. 186 00:21:36,293 --> 00:21:38,318 Yes, remember, without a single British soldier... 187 00:21:38,361 --> 00:21:39,988 he ended slavery in the Sudan. 188 00:21:40,030 --> 00:21:42,260 He's a hero... to the Sudanese... 189 00:21:42,299 --> 00:21:45,063 to the English, to the anti-slavery people... 190 00:21:45,101 --> 00:21:47,194 to the churchmen. 191 00:21:47,237 --> 00:21:49,967 Send him to Khartoum, and you'll be applauded... 192 00:21:50,006 --> 00:21:53,407 from Land's End to Inverness... 193 00:21:53,443 --> 00:21:55,570 and Her Majesty. 194 00:21:55,612 --> 00:21:56,943 Granville, you're wasting my time. 195 00:21:56,980 --> 00:21:59,005 The man's a mystic. He's an idealist... 196 00:21:59,049 --> 00:22:00,641 with ideals strictly his own. 197 00:22:00,684 --> 00:22:03,915 Give him an instruction, he treats a military order... 198 00:22:03,953 --> 00:22:05,750 as if it were a birthday greeting. 199 00:22:05,789 --> 00:22:08,690 Besides, I trust no man who consults God... 200 00:22:08,725 --> 00:22:11,353 before he consults me. 201 00:22:11,394 --> 00:22:12,622 May I speak, sir? 202 00:22:12,662 --> 00:22:15,495 In my opinion, General Gordon would refuse. 203 00:22:15,532 --> 00:22:18,126 After all, when he went to the Sudan... 204 00:22:18,168 --> 00:22:20,102 as Governor General and put down the slave trade... 205 00:22:20,136 --> 00:22:21,831 with nothing but his own audacity... 206 00:22:21,871 --> 00:22:23,099 and a few loyal lieutenants... 207 00:22:23,139 --> 00:22:25,437 sir, he didn't face the Mahdi. 208 00:22:25,475 --> 00:22:26,806 He didn't face a holy war... 209 00:22:26,843 --> 00:22:28,936 and he didn't face 10,000 Remington rifles. 210 00:22:28,978 --> 00:22:32,812 If you send him to Khartoum on his own now... 211 00:22:32,849 --> 00:22:35,477 he'll simply fail. 212 00:22:35,518 --> 00:22:37,213 What a pity. 213 00:22:39,723 --> 00:22:42,624 Sir, if General Gordon accepted your proposal... 214 00:22:42,659 --> 00:22:46,095 and the conditions of today, my respect for him would end. 215 00:22:46,129 --> 00:22:47,824 He'd be the vainest man alive. 216 00:22:47,864 --> 00:22:49,661 Thank you, Colonel Stewart. 217 00:22:49,699 --> 00:22:51,792 Now, would you leave us to our deliberations? 218 00:22:51,835 --> 00:22:55,327 My congratulations on the excellence of your report. 219 00:22:59,843 --> 00:23:01,174 Good day, sir. 220 00:23:02,779 --> 00:23:05,646 I like that man. 221 00:23:05,682 --> 00:23:07,980 Did I understand you correctly? 222 00:23:08,017 --> 00:23:10,144 If we send Gordon to Khartoum-- 223 00:23:10,186 --> 00:23:12,950 Gordon, a national hero-- and he fails... 224 00:23:12,989 --> 00:23:16,220 then the blame will fall on him, not on the government? 225 00:23:16,259 --> 00:23:18,227 It could happen that way. 226 00:23:18,261 --> 00:23:21,025 It's the most abominable proposal... 227 00:23:21,064 --> 00:23:23,828 I have ever entertained. 228 00:23:23,867 --> 00:23:26,734 Granville, the colonel had a point. 229 00:23:26,770 --> 00:23:29,330 Just why would Gordon do it? 230 00:23:29,372 --> 00:23:32,603 Because he's a patriot and a man of conscience... 231 00:23:32,642 --> 00:23:36,169 or perhaps the vainest man alive. 232 00:23:36,212 --> 00:23:40,114 I dislike everything about this. 233 00:23:40,150 --> 00:23:42,482 Worse, I distrust it. 234 00:23:42,519 --> 00:23:45,955 I know nothing about this conversation. 235 00:23:45,989 --> 00:23:48,958 But let me know in Balmoral what Gordon says. 236 00:23:48,992 --> 00:23:52,553 Her Majesty would be so pleased. 237 00:24:10,980 --> 00:24:14,916 Apologize for the secrecy, Gordon. 238 00:24:14,951 --> 00:24:16,612 Politics. 239 00:24:16,653 --> 00:24:18,951 Let's not waste time with formalities. 240 00:24:18,988 --> 00:24:21,320 Sit down, please. 241 00:24:21,357 --> 00:24:23,723 I can't keep the train for Scotland waiting forever... 242 00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:24,988 or there'd be curiosity. 243 00:24:25,028 --> 00:24:27,428 We need few words. 244 00:24:27,464 --> 00:24:30,831 Granville will see you tomorrow... 245 00:24:30,867 --> 00:24:34,098 with a proposal so disreputable... 246 00:24:34,137 --> 00:24:37,072 that I can have nothing to do with it publicly. 247 00:24:37,106 --> 00:24:39,267 Privately, I ask you to accept it. 248 00:24:39,309 --> 00:24:40,469 Why? 249 00:24:40,510 --> 00:24:43,308 Because it will provide me with political comfort. 250 00:24:43,346 --> 00:24:46,509 I can conceive of no commodity, sir... 251 00:24:46,549 --> 00:24:48,210 that could interest me less. 252 00:24:48,251 --> 00:24:49,684 I'm not a free agent, you know. 253 00:24:49,719 --> 00:24:51,880 I leave for the Belgian Congo within weeks. 254 00:24:51,921 --> 00:24:54,219 Granville could arrange that. 255 00:24:54,257 --> 00:24:57,158 Gordon, the Sudan was your child. 256 00:24:57,193 --> 00:25:00,685 I don't need to inform you it's in the gravest danger. 257 00:25:00,730 --> 00:25:02,254 You don't need to inform me. 258 00:25:02,298 --> 00:25:03,765 Gordon, I cannot and will not... 259 00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:05,734 send military forces up the Nile... 260 00:25:05,768 --> 00:25:08,532 but I admit Khartoum cannot be left to its fate... 261 00:25:08,571 --> 00:25:10,266 without some gesture. 262 00:25:10,306 --> 00:25:11,773 Am I the gesture? 263 00:25:11,808 --> 00:25:13,435 The whole country knows your capacities. 264 00:25:13,476 --> 00:25:17,344 You've done before alone what an army of blunderers can't do. 265 00:25:17,380 --> 00:25:19,177 What's the proposal? 266 00:25:19,215 --> 00:25:20,580 That you go to the Sudan... 267 00:25:20,617 --> 00:25:22,847 supervise the evacuation of Khartoum... 268 00:25:22,886 --> 00:25:25,787 do what you can to leave peace and order behind. 269 00:25:25,822 --> 00:25:28,848 - With what powers? - None. 270 00:25:28,892 --> 00:25:31,861 Egypt will give you some ribbon or other. 271 00:25:31,895 --> 00:25:34,762 Politicians. 272 00:25:34,797 --> 00:25:37,493 And when the Mahdi floats me down the Nile... 273 00:25:37,534 --> 00:25:39,934 the government will assume a pained expression... 274 00:25:39,969 --> 00:25:42,164 and say to Her Majesty and the churchmen... 275 00:25:42,205 --> 00:25:44,901 and the anti-slavery people, "We sent Gordon. 276 00:25:44,941 --> 00:25:46,602 "We did the best we could." 277 00:25:46,643 --> 00:25:47,803 Precisely. 278 00:25:47,844 --> 00:25:52,713 That'll be the end of Gordon, but not of Gladstone. 279 00:25:52,749 --> 00:25:54,478 In a nutshell. 280 00:25:56,686 --> 00:26:00,087 I must say, Mr. Gladstone, you're hardly a bore. 281 00:26:00,123 --> 00:26:02,489 You don't bore me either, Gordon. 282 00:26:02,525 --> 00:26:04,857 You're illogical and insubordinate. 283 00:26:04,894 --> 00:26:06,452 I know if I send you to Khartoum... 284 00:26:06,496 --> 00:26:08,487 you'll play tricks, you'll exceed your orders... 285 00:26:08,531 --> 00:26:11,091 and in the name of some mystical necessity... 286 00:26:11,134 --> 00:26:12,567 apparent only to yourself... 287 00:26:12,602 --> 00:26:16,094 you'll do your ingenious best to involve this government... 288 00:26:16,139 --> 00:26:17,333 up to the hatband. 289 00:26:17,373 --> 00:26:18,931 But you're in a very poor patch... 290 00:26:18,975 --> 00:26:21,102 and you have no one to turn to but me. 291 00:26:21,144 --> 00:26:22,771 Again, in a nutshell. 292 00:26:22,812 --> 00:26:25,280 I'll take a chance on your tricks. That's all I can say. 293 00:26:25,315 --> 00:26:28,284 I'll see Sir Evelyn Baring in Cairo... 294 00:26:28,318 --> 00:26:29,945 brings pressure on the Khedive... 295 00:26:29,986 --> 00:26:32,955 to appoint you Governor General of the Sudan... 296 00:26:32,989 --> 00:26:35,457 but I cannot and will not back you up. 297 00:26:35,491 --> 00:26:36,924 This must be understood. 298 00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:39,190 No British troops will come up the Nile. 299 00:26:39,228 --> 00:26:43,130 I will not assume a British obligation to police the world. 300 00:26:43,166 --> 00:26:45,964 If you can help the Sudan, your country will be grateful. 301 00:26:46,002 --> 00:26:47,162 If you can't-- 302 00:26:47,203 --> 00:26:49,637 My country will understand. 303 00:26:56,913 --> 00:26:58,346 I'll go. 304 00:27:02,051 --> 00:27:03,712 You'll come back safe. 305 00:27:03,753 --> 00:27:08,452 Gordon, first, last, and above all... 306 00:27:08,491 --> 00:27:10,118 you'll come back safe. 307 00:27:10,159 --> 00:27:12,024 Do you hear me? 308 00:27:12,061 --> 00:27:13,824 I hear you. 309 00:27:17,033 --> 00:27:18,295 You'll need an aide. 310 00:27:18,334 --> 00:27:20,097 I have a good man in mind. 311 00:27:20,136 --> 00:27:21,933 Isn't such a choice my prerogative? 312 00:27:21,971 --> 00:27:24,439 Not in this case. He'll be useful to you. 313 00:27:24,474 --> 00:27:25,634 And to you. 314 00:27:25,675 --> 00:27:27,142 Naturally. 315 00:27:27,176 --> 00:27:29,076 Well, Gordon... 316 00:27:30,980 --> 00:27:34,973 God go with you, and I don't envy God. 317 00:28:06,049 --> 00:28:07,710 Put my luggage aboard, please. 318 00:28:07,750 --> 00:28:08,944 Very good, sir. 319 00:28:23,166 --> 00:28:24,360 Yes? 320 00:28:27,503 --> 00:28:31,234 Your second-in-command, sir, Colonel J.D.H. Stewart. 321 00:28:35,011 --> 00:28:38,139 So. 322 00:28:38,181 --> 00:28:39,876 This is for you, General. 323 00:28:39,916 --> 00:28:42,942 You'll find my report in here. It'll bring you up to date. 324 00:28:42,985 --> 00:28:45,920 Am I to understand that Gladstone has cursed me... 325 00:28:45,955 --> 00:28:48,150 not only with a spy, but with a subordinate... 326 00:28:48,191 --> 00:28:49,852 who thinks he knows more than I do? 327 00:28:49,892 --> 00:28:51,325 I was brought here in chains, sir. 328 00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:52,759 I don't know what to think. 329 00:28:52,795 --> 00:28:54,023 Brandy and soda, sir. 330 00:28:54,063 --> 00:28:56,258 B & S? It sounds as though you'll need one. 331 00:28:56,299 --> 00:28:59,234 - Thank you, sir. - Right. Sit down. 332 00:28:59,268 --> 00:29:01,759 You are Gladstone's spy, aren't you? 333 00:29:01,804 --> 00:29:03,203 Yes, sir. 334 00:29:03,239 --> 00:29:05,230 Would it be indiscreet of your commanding officer... 335 00:29:05,274 --> 00:29:06,764 to inquire as to your instructions? 336 00:29:06,809 --> 00:29:07,969 Not at all, sir. 337 00:29:08,010 --> 00:29:09,910 I am to report to Mr. Gladstone... 338 00:29:09,946 --> 00:29:12,972 any actions you may take which, in my opinion... 339 00:29:13,015 --> 00:29:15,609 conflict with your instructions. 340 00:29:15,651 --> 00:29:19,348 I am to inform you and the government if necessary... 341 00:29:19,388 --> 00:29:22,619 of any situation which, in my opinion... 342 00:29:22,658 --> 00:29:24,353 places you in physical danger. 343 00:29:24,393 --> 00:29:26,088 And if anybody in the course of this mission... 344 00:29:26,129 --> 00:29:30,429 must risk his life, then I'm to do it, not you. 345 00:29:30,466 --> 00:29:34,926 Apart from that, sir, I'm yours to command. 346 00:29:34,971 --> 00:29:38,236 Tell me what, in your opinion, Colonel Stewart... 347 00:29:38,274 --> 00:29:40,538 are the chances of my sacking you? 348 00:29:40,576 --> 00:29:42,043 If they existed, sir... 349 00:29:42,078 --> 00:29:44,478 I'd be the first to point them out to you. 350 00:29:44,514 --> 00:29:46,106 Drink your brandy. 351 00:29:49,118 --> 00:29:50,278 Thank you. 352 00:29:50,319 --> 00:29:53,049 We seem to have sailed. 353 00:29:53,089 --> 00:29:54,920 Farewell, England. 354 00:29:54,957 --> 00:29:58,723 So you and I are definitely stuck with each other. 355 00:29:58,761 --> 00:30:00,058 Yes, sir. 356 00:30:00,096 --> 00:30:03,031 For heaven's sake, man, sit down. 357 00:30:06,369 --> 00:30:08,200 May I ask a question? 358 00:30:08,237 --> 00:30:11,138 If it's impertinent, I withdraw it. 359 00:30:11,174 --> 00:30:13,699 Why did you let them talk you into this mission? 360 00:30:19,248 --> 00:30:23,048 As is well known, I regard myself as a religious man... 361 00:30:23,085 --> 00:30:25,519 yet, I belong to no church. 362 00:30:25,555 --> 00:30:28,319 I'm an able soldier, but I abhor armies. 363 00:30:28,357 --> 00:30:30,848 I could even add that I've been introduced... 364 00:30:30,893 --> 00:30:33,453 to hundreds of women, yet I've never married. 365 00:30:33,496 --> 00:30:36,158 In other words, no one's ever talked me into anything. 366 00:30:36,199 --> 00:30:37,723 Does that answer your question? 367 00:30:37,767 --> 00:30:39,496 No, sir. 368 00:30:41,437 --> 00:30:44,099 Then let me suggest that my life is not an open book... 369 00:30:44,140 --> 00:30:48,702 to you, to any man, least of all to myself. 370 00:30:53,649 --> 00:30:57,244 With your permission, General, I think I need a turn on deck. 371 00:31:02,124 --> 00:31:04,592 Send a telegram as soon as we reach Calais. 372 00:31:04,627 --> 00:31:06,720 Sir Evelyn Baring, Cairo. 373 00:31:06,762 --> 00:31:09,287 Locate immediately whereabouts Zobeir Pasha. 374 00:31:09,332 --> 00:31:10,697 Signed, Gordon. 375 00:31:12,134 --> 00:31:16,628 That's spelt Z-O-B-E-l-R. 376 00:31:18,341 --> 00:31:19,535 Yes, sir. 377 00:31:58,047 --> 00:32:00,675 I expected outrageous nonsense from you, Gordon. 378 00:32:00,716 --> 00:32:02,946 I expected the worst, but Zobeir Pasha. 379 00:32:02,985 --> 00:32:05,317 Even the Khedive was appalled. 380 00:32:05,354 --> 00:32:07,049 I see nothing outrageous, Sir Evelyn. 381 00:32:07,089 --> 00:32:08,556 Zobeir's a Sudanese. 382 00:32:08,591 --> 00:32:10,456 He used to be the most important man down there. 383 00:32:10,493 --> 00:32:13,360 He's able, wise, still has a powerful influence. 384 00:32:13,396 --> 00:32:15,091 You'd like to take Zobeir with you to Khartoum... 385 00:32:15,131 --> 00:32:16,792 to give him control over the Sudan. 386 00:32:16,832 --> 00:32:18,527 Gordon, the man is a slave trader. 387 00:32:18,567 --> 00:32:19,761 Was a slave trader. 388 00:32:19,802 --> 00:32:22,532 My instructions are to evacuate Khartoum... 389 00:32:22,571 --> 00:32:24,630 and leave some sort of order behind. 390 00:32:24,674 --> 00:32:26,801 How? Well, most of the chiefs... 391 00:32:26,842 --> 00:32:29,242 Ioyal to the Mahdi today used to be loyal to Zobeir. 392 00:32:29,278 --> 00:32:30,506 I think they'd come back to him. 393 00:32:30,546 --> 00:32:34,539 Sir Evelyn, I cannot go to Khartoum without a plan. 394 00:32:38,754 --> 00:32:41,723 - I insist on seeing Zobeir. - Why would he see you? 395 00:32:41,757 --> 00:32:43,918 You not only put him out of the slave trade... 396 00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:45,154 you killed his son in the process. 397 00:32:45,194 --> 00:32:48,163 I must take the chance. One must always take chances. 398 00:32:52,034 --> 00:32:54,867 Why is Towfik making us wait? 399 00:32:54,904 --> 00:32:56,735 Well, Sir Evelyn, it's been my experience... 400 00:32:56,772 --> 00:32:58,763 that when you're giving orders to sovereign princes... 401 00:32:58,808 --> 00:33:01,003 you have to expect a little humiliation. 402 00:33:01,043 --> 00:33:02,840 It makes them feel better. 403 00:33:31,407 --> 00:33:34,501 Humbly, Highness, I accept this command... 404 00:33:34,543 --> 00:33:36,010 as Governor General of the Sudan... 405 00:33:36,045 --> 00:33:38,036 and I swear to you my devoted service. 406 00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:39,877 Do you understand, Gordon Pasha... 407 00:33:39,915 --> 00:33:42,349 that your wages will only be L6,000 a year? 408 00:33:42,385 --> 00:33:44,148 It is all I can afford. 409 00:33:44,186 --> 00:33:47,952 I'll take 2,000. It's all I need. 410 00:33:51,027 --> 00:33:53,086 What about a B & S? 411 00:34:31,934 --> 00:34:33,492 Sir. 412 00:34:38,641 --> 00:34:39,972 God be with us. 413 00:34:45,114 --> 00:34:47,514 Zobeir Pasha, you are well? 414 00:34:51,187 --> 00:34:52,916 General Gordon goes to Khartoum... 415 00:34:52,955 --> 00:34:54,616 as Governor General for the Khedive. 416 00:34:54,657 --> 00:34:57,421 He pays you his compliments, and he would speak with you. 417 00:34:57,460 --> 00:35:00,156 This is my aide, Colonel Stewart. 418 00:35:02,565 --> 00:35:04,897 We come from London, Zobeir. 419 00:35:04,934 --> 00:35:07,869 My government is determined to lend Egypt no support... 420 00:35:07,903 --> 00:35:10,303 in the face of the uprising and to prevail on the Khedive... 421 00:35:10,339 --> 00:35:13,365 to relinquish control over the Sudan. 422 00:35:13,409 --> 00:35:15,343 Sir Evelyn will confirm what I say. 423 00:35:15,377 --> 00:35:17,937 This is unwise. There will be ruin... 424 00:35:17,980 --> 00:35:20,175 and death, and tears, and little else. 425 00:35:20,216 --> 00:35:21,843 It is my government's policy. 426 00:35:21,884 --> 00:35:24,580 I have no authority beyond evacuating... 427 00:35:24,620 --> 00:35:26,850 all Egyptians from Khartoum. 428 00:35:26,889 --> 00:35:28,151 I could wish otherwise. 429 00:35:28,190 --> 00:35:30,556 But you have the power and the influence... 430 00:35:30,593 --> 00:35:32,788 and the ability to oppose the Mahdi. 431 00:35:34,196 --> 00:35:35,823 Will you come with me to Khartoum... 432 00:35:35,865 --> 00:35:38,197 and accept the Sudan from my hands? 433 00:35:39,502 --> 00:35:41,493 Do I receive this offer... 434 00:35:41,537 --> 00:35:44,233 from the British government, Sir Evelyn? 435 00:35:44,273 --> 00:35:48,141 No, my government renounces all influence over Sudanese affairs. 436 00:35:48,177 --> 00:35:50,304 This is a matter between you and General Gordon. 437 00:35:50,346 --> 00:35:53,941 If I give you my word that there will be no slavery... 438 00:35:53,983 --> 00:35:56,577 I regard the institution as ended... 439 00:35:56,619 --> 00:35:59,520 does my attitude influence your government? 440 00:36:01,190 --> 00:36:04,455 I understand. My reputation. 441 00:36:04,493 --> 00:36:07,860 But what would your Christian world say... 442 00:36:07,897 --> 00:36:12,095 if the slaver Zobeir received ten million Sudanese... 443 00:36:12,134 --> 00:36:14,568 from the hands of the great Gordon Pasha? 444 00:36:14,603 --> 00:36:18,198 My government would oppose you... publicly. 445 00:36:18,240 --> 00:36:21,903 I would defend you. Publicly. 446 00:36:27,416 --> 00:36:30,249 The general will defend me. 447 00:36:33,088 --> 00:36:38,355 The great Christian hero will defend Zobeir the slaver. 448 00:36:40,930 --> 00:36:43,956 Before I receive my country from your bloody hands... 449 00:36:43,999 --> 00:36:46,058 I shall see it die. 450 00:36:48,404 --> 00:36:50,395 You killed my son. 451 00:36:53,976 --> 00:36:55,466 I executed him. 452 00:36:55,511 --> 00:36:58,810 Do you have sons, Gordon Pasha? 453 00:36:58,847 --> 00:37:00,781 Do you have sons? 454 00:37:00,816 --> 00:37:02,909 No. 455 00:37:02,952 --> 00:37:04,613 You killed mine. 456 00:37:04,653 --> 00:37:07,281 God forgive me, Zobeir. 457 00:37:08,857 --> 00:37:11,121 But let the dead bury their dead. 458 00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:13,287 You killed my flesh! 459 00:37:13,329 --> 00:37:15,058 My blood! 460 00:37:15,097 --> 00:37:17,463 My suleman. 461 00:37:20,603 --> 00:37:26,940 Get thee from my house, and may ye die in the desert untended. 462 00:37:26,976 --> 00:37:31,970 May vultures consume thy flesh, sands thy blood. 463 00:37:47,930 --> 00:37:50,421 Go back. Go back to London. 464 00:37:50,466 --> 00:37:53,026 There's too much danger, too little hope. 465 00:37:53,068 --> 00:37:55,263 I'll report my news to Gladstone. 466 00:37:55,304 --> 00:37:58,171 I'll stand by you. 467 00:37:58,207 --> 00:37:59,970 Thank you. 468 00:38:00,009 --> 00:38:02,170 You said you had to have a plan. 469 00:38:02,211 --> 00:38:05,112 What can you do now? 470 00:38:05,147 --> 00:38:08,480 Get up the Nile to Khartoum. 471 00:38:33,942 --> 00:38:38,140 Stewart, just how far into the Sudan would you say we are? 472 00:38:39,181 --> 00:38:42,639 We'll reach Berber in an hour or so. 473 00:38:42,685 --> 00:38:44,983 In your report you said that the Mahdi's people... 474 00:38:45,020 --> 00:38:48,581 wore jibbers covered with patches. 475 00:38:48,624 --> 00:38:50,956 That's correct, sir. 476 00:38:50,993 --> 00:38:53,723 And his main force is still beyond Khartoum? 477 00:38:53,762 --> 00:38:55,024 Yes, sir. 478 00:38:56,098 --> 00:38:59,329 Look there. We haven't even reached Berber. 479 00:39:21,790 --> 00:39:23,257 Gordon Pasha! 480 00:39:25,928 --> 00:39:27,589 Ali lbrahim! 481 00:39:27,629 --> 00:39:30,029 Gordon Pasha! 482 00:39:30,065 --> 00:39:32,226 No, Ali. No! 483 00:39:32,267 --> 00:39:34,633 Sheikh Ali lbrahim of the Manasir. 484 00:39:34,670 --> 00:39:36,228 My friend before God. 485 00:39:36,271 --> 00:39:37,568 Ali, please. 486 00:39:37,606 --> 00:39:41,007 I weep for joy. We are saved! We are delivered! 487 00:39:41,043 --> 00:39:43,807 - Delivered? - Berber is surrounded. 488 00:39:43,846 --> 00:39:47,782 I am cut off from my people, except by the river. 489 00:39:47,816 --> 00:39:51,183 To the east, to the south, to the north. 490 00:39:51,220 --> 00:39:54,485 Mohammed al Khalia, the villain, he has gone over to the Mahdi... 491 00:39:54,523 --> 00:39:56,821 taking all the tribes along this shore. 492 00:39:56,859 --> 00:39:58,622 We saw a band downriver. 493 00:39:58,660 --> 00:40:00,252 Did they get their guns from the Mahdi? 494 00:40:00,295 --> 00:40:03,594 Since the terrible disaster of Hicks Pasha... 495 00:40:03,632 --> 00:40:06,192 it seems all have guns. 496 00:40:06,235 --> 00:40:09,204 But you return, and we are saved. 497 00:40:09,238 --> 00:40:12,230 - We are delivered. - How? I bring no army. 498 00:40:12,274 --> 00:40:14,572 You will find a way, Gordon Pasha. 499 00:40:14,610 --> 00:40:16,669 You have always found a way. 500 00:40:16,712 --> 00:40:22,617 My friends, we must drink coffee and speak of the old days. 501 00:40:37,900 --> 00:40:40,698 Sir, I've prepared a telegram for London. 502 00:40:40,736 --> 00:40:42,704 I request that you read it. 503 00:40:42,738 --> 00:40:44,467 I have an official responsibility... 504 00:40:44,506 --> 00:40:46,633 to advise you to turn back to Cairo. 505 00:40:46,675 --> 00:40:48,199 The situation has changed. 506 00:40:48,243 --> 00:40:50,643 Situations always change. 507 00:40:50,679 --> 00:40:52,271 Sir, Berber is surrounded. 508 00:40:52,314 --> 00:40:55,078 The uprising spread this far while we traveled. 509 00:40:55,117 --> 00:40:57,017 You could be caught in a trap. 510 00:40:57,052 --> 00:40:59,282 Give me a camel, I can get out of anything. 511 00:40:59,321 --> 00:41:01,255 You're a responsible spy. 512 00:41:01,290 --> 00:41:03,121 Send your telegram. 513 00:41:03,158 --> 00:41:05,683 You're bringing these people nothing but false hopes... 514 00:41:05,727 --> 00:41:07,319 and false expectations. 515 00:41:07,362 --> 00:41:11,196 There are still 13,000 Egyptians to be got out of Khartoum. 516 00:41:11,233 --> 00:41:12,962 If the government had known that by now... 517 00:41:13,001 --> 00:41:15,526 there'd be armed Mahdis tribes on both sides of the Nile... 518 00:41:15,571 --> 00:41:17,766 400 miles north of Khartoum-- 519 00:41:17,806 --> 00:41:19,535 They wouldn't have sent me. 520 00:41:19,575 --> 00:41:21,634 Then you cannot proceed further. 521 00:41:21,677 --> 00:41:23,577 If Her Majesty's government... 522 00:41:23,612 --> 00:41:25,739 at this moment wants to run out publicly... 523 00:41:25,781 --> 00:41:29,273 on the Egyptians, send your telegram. 524 00:41:29,318 --> 00:41:30,910 Get them to recall me. 525 00:41:30,953 --> 00:41:33,217 But you have to make the decision. They won't. 526 00:41:33,255 --> 00:41:35,883 I've made my decision, Colonel Stewart. 527 00:41:35,924 --> 00:41:37,585 But what is your decision? 528 00:41:40,529 --> 00:41:44,898 General, when you left London, your only hope was Zobeir. 529 00:41:44,933 --> 00:41:46,833 So, if you have any further plan... 530 00:41:46,869 --> 00:41:51,067 beyond vague self-confidence, you haven't confided it to me. 531 00:41:51,106 --> 00:41:54,269 Was I instructed to confide in you? 532 00:41:54,309 --> 00:41:55,537 I don't recall. 533 00:41:55,577 --> 00:41:57,636 Are you willing to delude the Sudanese... 534 00:41:57,679 --> 00:41:59,772 gull the Egyptians, and compromise your country... 535 00:41:59,815 --> 00:42:01,680 just to satisfy your own vanity? 536 00:42:05,020 --> 00:42:08,012 Next time I'll shoot you. 537 00:42:10,292 --> 00:42:13,193 I've shot men before. 538 00:42:13,228 --> 00:42:14,991 Now send your telegram. 539 00:42:30,579 --> 00:42:33,070 The boat is coming! 540 00:42:42,024 --> 00:42:43,992 Look at that! Isn't that marvelous? 541 00:42:44,026 --> 00:42:45,823 How exciting! 542 00:42:45,861 --> 00:42:48,728 Everyone in Khartoum must be on the coast. 543 00:43:03,612 --> 00:43:06,945 Gordon Pasha! 544 00:44:11,346 --> 00:44:13,746 Welcome back, Gordon Pasha. 545 00:44:13,782 --> 00:44:14,976 Thank you. 546 00:44:20,022 --> 00:44:22,786 It's good to be home. 547 00:45:35,163 --> 00:45:37,757 You can't see anything from down there. 548 00:46:21,409 --> 00:46:24,173 Gordon Pasha will be with us shortly. 549 00:46:24,212 --> 00:46:26,203 Sheikh Abdul Rahim. 550 00:46:26,248 --> 00:46:28,739 Gordon Pasha will be with us shortly. 551 00:46:30,051 --> 00:46:32,986 Mr. Frank Power, Her Majesty's consul in Khartoum. 552 00:46:33,021 --> 00:46:34,784 Also the "Times" correspondent. 553 00:46:34,823 --> 00:46:36,085 Where is he? 554 00:46:36,124 --> 00:46:38,217 Gordon Pasha will be with us shortly. 555 00:46:39,828 --> 00:46:41,693 Monsieur Herbin, French counsel. 556 00:46:41,730 --> 00:46:43,755 Gordon Pasha will be with us shortly. 557 00:46:44,833 --> 00:46:48,064 - Khaleel, B & S. - Yes, master. 558 00:46:57,879 --> 00:46:59,437 B & S. 559 00:46:59,481 --> 00:47:00,675 Thank you. 560 00:47:03,218 --> 00:47:06,984 Now, master, it has been a very long time. 561 00:47:07,022 --> 00:47:09,513 So you cannot expect me to remember all things... 562 00:47:09,558 --> 00:47:10,923 without confusion. 563 00:47:10,959 --> 00:47:12,950 For if you had left me this Bible... 564 00:47:12,994 --> 00:47:14,621 then it would be different. 565 00:47:14,663 --> 00:47:16,824 I could not have read it, but even so-- 566 00:47:16,865 --> 00:47:19,026 - Khaleel. - I'm here, master. 567 00:47:19,067 --> 00:47:21,092 Khaleel, there's something I want you to do for me. 568 00:47:21,136 --> 00:47:22,296 And I shall do it, master. 569 00:47:22,337 --> 00:47:24,931 Now, this great Jesus Christ, sometime, master... 570 00:47:24,973 --> 00:47:26,531 I do not understand this man. 571 00:47:26,575 --> 00:47:29,066 For He announced, and He was very clear about it... 572 00:47:29,110 --> 00:47:30,407 for once He was very clear... 573 00:47:30,445 --> 00:47:32,072 almost like the great Lord Mohammed... 574 00:47:32,113 --> 00:47:33,444 bless him and peace be upon him. 575 00:47:33,481 --> 00:47:36,109 But I do not understand this Jesus Christ. 576 00:47:36,151 --> 00:47:39,279 For as I remember, you told me, He announced most clearly... 577 00:47:39,321 --> 00:47:40,618 as I have said-- 578 00:47:40,655 --> 00:47:43,453 Khaleel, there's something I want you to do. 579 00:47:43,491 --> 00:47:44,981 You have only to speak master. 580 00:47:45,026 --> 00:47:48,826 Now, He say when a man is struck upon one cheek... 581 00:47:48,864 --> 00:47:50,024 he must turn the other. 582 00:47:50,065 --> 00:47:52,295 Do you? No. 583 00:47:58,673 --> 00:48:00,140 You don't. 584 00:48:00,175 --> 00:48:04,475 I must inform you, Khaleel, as delicately as possible... 585 00:48:04,512 --> 00:48:06,878 that I am not Jesus Christ. 586 00:48:08,750 --> 00:48:11,412 Wait! Will you first find out for me... 587 00:48:11,453 --> 00:48:13,717 where the Mahdi's camp is at present? 588 00:48:42,717 --> 00:48:44,275 Khaleel. 589 00:49:14,649 --> 00:49:15,877 Peace be with you. 590 00:49:15,917 --> 00:49:17,384 Peace be with you. 591 00:49:17,419 --> 00:49:19,683 Send a messenger to Mohammed Ahmed... 592 00:49:19,721 --> 00:49:21,279 who is called the Mahdi... 593 00:49:21,323 --> 00:49:22,984 and tell him that Gordon Pasha... 594 00:49:23,024 --> 00:49:25,993 Governor General of the Sudan, has entered his camp. 595 00:49:26,027 --> 00:49:28,791 It is a lie before God! He is not Gordon Pasha! 596 00:49:54,155 --> 00:49:56,885 Abdullah! Gordon Pasha is here! 597 00:49:56,925 --> 00:49:58,790 How does he appear? 598 00:49:58,827 --> 00:50:01,557 The skin is pink. The beard is only here. 599 00:50:01,596 --> 00:50:02,961 It is gray. 600 00:50:02,998 --> 00:50:04,625 Khartoum. 601 00:50:04,666 --> 00:50:07,294 Holy person, we saw him yesterday in Khartoum. 602 00:50:07,335 --> 00:50:09,030 It is Gordon Pasha. 603 00:50:09,070 --> 00:50:10,435 How many are his soldiers? 604 00:50:10,472 --> 00:50:12,667 He is alone with one black slave. 605 00:50:12,707 --> 00:50:15,141 I fear it. He makes magic. 606 00:50:15,176 --> 00:50:17,269 We saw it yesterday in the streets. 607 00:50:17,312 --> 00:50:18,540 Kill him. 608 00:50:21,149 --> 00:50:22,810 You're all so innocent. 609 00:50:22,851 --> 00:50:24,819 Who makes the magic that brings him... 610 00:50:24,853 --> 00:50:28,448 to my camp alone with one black slave? 611 00:50:28,490 --> 00:50:30,424 He... 612 00:50:30,458 --> 00:50:33,086 or I? 613 00:50:33,128 --> 00:50:34,993 Bring the great one to me. 614 00:51:34,453 --> 00:51:36,921 Is it because you are an infidel, Gordon Pasha... 615 00:51:36,956 --> 00:51:41,017 that I feel myself in the presence of evil? 616 00:51:41,060 --> 00:51:44,257 I doubt it, Mohammed Ahmed, for you are not an infidel... 617 00:51:44,296 --> 00:51:45,854 and I smell evil. 618 00:51:49,435 --> 00:51:52,131 I have 30,000 soldiers in my camp. 619 00:51:52,171 --> 00:51:54,139 Is it because you are so brave... 620 00:51:54,173 --> 00:51:56,403 or so foolish, that you come here alone... 621 00:51:56,442 --> 00:52:00,071 unarmed, with only a black slave to hold your robe? 622 00:52:01,681 --> 00:52:03,808 Khaleel is not a slave. He is a free man. 623 00:52:03,849 --> 00:52:06,283 He comes with me out of love. 624 00:52:06,318 --> 00:52:09,981 And he does not hold my robe, but a gift for you. 625 00:52:10,022 --> 00:52:11,683 Years ago, Mohammed Ahmed... 626 00:52:11,724 --> 00:52:14,158 I led the armies of the Emperor of China... 627 00:52:14,193 --> 00:52:15,751 at a time of great trial. 628 00:52:15,795 --> 00:52:18,855 And when his enemies were crushed and confounded... 629 00:52:18,898 --> 00:52:22,800 and his throne was again secure, he made me this gift. 630 00:52:22,835 --> 00:52:24,894 I have brought it from London for you. 631 00:52:27,406 --> 00:52:30,398 It is most exquisite. 632 00:52:30,443 --> 00:52:34,243 When the Emperor of China ceases to be a non-believer... 633 00:52:34,280 --> 00:52:36,840 and accepts me, the Expected One... 634 00:52:36,882 --> 00:52:38,850 as the true Mahdi... 635 00:52:38,884 --> 00:52:42,320 then I shall be happy to receive such a gift. 636 00:52:44,924 --> 00:52:47,449 Khaleel? 637 00:52:47,493 --> 00:52:49,188 You will wait just outside. 638 00:52:54,066 --> 00:52:56,261 Abria. Real abria. 639 00:52:56,302 --> 00:52:58,270 I've had none in five years. 640 00:53:01,207 --> 00:53:04,608 Your meeting with Zobeir Pasha was less than happy, I believe. 641 00:53:06,345 --> 00:53:08,108 Your intelligence service... 642 00:53:08,147 --> 00:53:10,775 has an excellence beyond my expectations. 643 00:53:10,816 --> 00:53:13,444 How much you must regret having killed his son. 644 00:53:15,187 --> 00:53:19,123 I executed his son. I have no regrets. 645 00:53:19,158 --> 00:53:20,921 It was a necessary object lesson... 646 00:53:20,960 --> 00:53:23,258 in my campaign against the slave trade. 647 00:53:23,295 --> 00:53:25,490 And it was successful. 648 00:53:25,531 --> 00:53:27,499 I brought peace to the Sudan. 649 00:53:29,135 --> 00:53:31,365 But since you have come back now... 650 00:53:31,403 --> 00:53:34,201 with instructions to evacuate Khartoum... 651 00:53:34,240 --> 00:53:36,868 most happily, the peace of the Sudan... 652 00:53:36,909 --> 00:53:38,342 no longer concerns you. 653 00:53:39,745 --> 00:53:42,077 What a pleasure it is to negotiate with a man... 654 00:53:42,114 --> 00:53:44,048 who knows even my instructions. 655 00:53:44,083 --> 00:53:47,348 We need waste so little time on preliminaries. 656 00:53:48,387 --> 00:53:52,414 What are your instructions concerning Khartoum? 657 00:54:01,167 --> 00:54:03,761 I have been instructed by the Prophet... 658 00:54:03,803 --> 00:54:06,772 blessings and peace be upon him... 659 00:54:06,806 --> 00:54:09,798 to worship in the Khartoum mosque. 660 00:54:13,813 --> 00:54:17,476 There are those among the Sudanese who will oppose you. 661 00:54:17,516 --> 00:54:20,076 I welcome in peace all those who worship with me. 662 00:54:22,288 --> 00:54:23,482 And the others? 663 00:54:30,262 --> 00:54:33,663 Mohammed Ahmed, may I suggest... 664 00:54:33,699 --> 00:54:36,691 that when first I came to the Sudan... 665 00:54:36,735 --> 00:54:42,765 its body was sick, stricken with hunger and abused by war. 666 00:54:42,808 --> 00:54:47,211 I cured it... and this land... 667 00:54:48,447 --> 00:54:51,814 I'm not a loving man, Mohammed Ahmed... 668 00:54:51,851 --> 00:54:57,255 but this land became the only thing that I've ever loved. 669 00:54:58,824 --> 00:55:02,624 I cannot, under my God-- do you understand? 670 00:55:02,661 --> 00:55:04,891 I cannot leave it to the sickness... 671 00:55:04,930 --> 00:55:07,558 and the misery in which I once found it. 672 00:55:08,601 --> 00:55:11,729 I respect you, Gordon Pasha. 673 00:55:11,770 --> 00:55:14,204 I make no war on you. 674 00:55:14,240 --> 00:55:16,470 Make no war on your own people. 675 00:55:16,508 --> 00:55:18,305 I'll take the Egyptians back to Egypt. 676 00:55:18,344 --> 00:55:20,278 I'll leave the Sudan to the Sudanese... 677 00:55:20,312 --> 00:55:23,440 and be happy and contented, but if I'm to leave Khartoum... 678 00:55:23,482 --> 00:55:27,077 to sickness and misery, to death... 679 00:55:28,554 --> 00:55:31,717 The Egyptians must remain in Khartoum. 680 00:55:37,663 --> 00:55:40,393 I am a poor man of the desert. 681 00:55:40,432 --> 00:55:44,027 But I am the Mahdi, the Expected One. 682 00:55:44,069 --> 00:55:47,664 On my cheek is the mole. 683 00:55:47,706 --> 00:55:49,298 Between my teeth... 684 00:55:51,210 --> 00:55:53,610 the space. 685 00:55:53,646 --> 00:55:57,377 And so that all men may know that I am the true Mahdi... 686 00:55:57,416 --> 00:56:01,284 the Prophet Mohammed, blessings and peace be upon him... 687 00:56:01,320 --> 00:56:03,880 makes miracles. 688 00:56:03,923 --> 00:56:06,016 Do you understand? 689 00:56:09,261 --> 00:56:10,922 I begin to. 690 00:56:13,165 --> 00:56:17,499 Gordon Pasha, do you believe that the Prophet... 691 00:56:17,536 --> 00:56:19,766 blessings be upon him, has instructed me... 692 00:56:19,805 --> 00:56:24,139 to pray only in the mosque at Khartoum? 693 00:56:24,176 --> 00:56:28,510 No. I am to pray in the mosque at Cairo... 694 00:56:28,547 --> 00:56:30,708 and at Mecca, and at Baghdad... 695 00:56:30,749 --> 00:56:33,684 and in the mosque at Constantinople. 696 00:56:33,719 --> 00:56:39,021 He has commanded me to make holy war until all of Islam... 697 00:56:39,058 --> 00:56:41,390 acknowledges the purity of his biddings... 698 00:56:41,427 --> 00:56:46,592 and all the world trembles before me. 699 00:56:46,632 --> 00:56:50,329 But all Islam must know who I am. 700 00:56:51,503 --> 00:56:53,334 And believe. 701 00:56:54,640 --> 00:56:59,339 Gordon Pasha, for tasks of such greatness... 702 00:56:59,378 --> 00:57:02,108 great deeds are needed. 703 00:57:02,147 --> 00:57:04,479 Egypt opposes me... 704 00:57:04,516 --> 00:57:08,680 and so the Egyptians must remain in Khartoum. 705 00:57:08,721 --> 00:57:11,019 For I shall take it in blood... 706 00:57:11,056 --> 00:57:12,990 and the streets will run in blood... 707 00:57:13,025 --> 00:57:16,392 and the Nile will taste of blood for a hundred miles... 708 00:57:16,428 --> 00:57:22,389 and every Egyptian will die-- every child, woman, man. 709 00:57:22,434 --> 00:57:27,201 Sudanese, too, who opposes the will of my Lord Mohammed... 710 00:57:27,239 --> 00:57:29,673 will die. 711 00:57:29,708 --> 00:57:33,804 This is how it must be in Khartoum. 712 00:57:33,846 --> 00:57:36,542 Great and terrible thing. 713 00:57:36,582 --> 00:57:39,813 Or I shall not pray in the mosques of Cairo... 714 00:57:39,852 --> 00:57:41,649 and Mecca, and Constantinople... 715 00:57:41,687 --> 00:57:46,021 nor will the world ever tremble before me. 716 00:57:50,829 --> 00:57:55,732 I had thought in my lifetime that I had witnessed all things. 717 00:57:55,768 --> 00:57:58,032 And you have. 718 00:57:58,070 --> 00:58:02,598 You have described to me how it was an object lesson... 719 00:58:02,641 --> 00:58:06,202 when you slaughtered the sons of the slavers... 720 00:58:06,245 --> 00:58:09,476 and brought peace to the Sudan. 721 00:58:09,515 --> 00:58:12,780 You have no regrets. 722 00:58:12,818 --> 00:58:15,719 What is the difference, Gordon Pasha? 723 00:58:15,754 --> 00:58:22,159 An infidel object lesson, or a holy miracle? 724 00:58:22,194 --> 00:58:24,059 If Khartoum is sacrificed... 725 00:58:24,096 --> 00:58:26,496 then all Islam will tremble and bow... 726 00:58:26,532 --> 00:58:29,524 and in peace I shall proceed... 727 00:58:29,568 --> 00:58:32,230 to all the mosques where I must pray... 728 00:58:32,271 --> 00:58:36,765 and the lives of millions will be spared. 729 00:58:36,809 --> 00:58:40,267 Whisper to me, Gordon Pasha... 730 00:58:42,147 --> 00:58:44,138 is there a difference? 731 00:58:46,351 --> 00:58:48,581 This is how it will be. 732 00:58:50,656 --> 00:58:52,521 This is how it will be. 733 00:59:24,189 --> 00:59:26,453 Stewart Pasha. 734 00:59:31,897 --> 00:59:33,762 He's back, sir. 735 00:59:47,179 --> 00:59:49,204 Excellency, he has had no sleep. 736 00:59:49,248 --> 00:59:50,738 General! 737 01:00:03,629 --> 01:00:07,326 You have... been to the Mahdi. 738 01:00:14,072 --> 01:00:17,769 He plans to lay siege to Khartoum... 739 01:00:17,809 --> 01:00:20,505 take it by force. 740 01:00:20,546 --> 01:00:23,572 To slaughter all the Egyptians 741 01:00:23,615 --> 01:00:26,846 and those Sudanese who haven't accepted him. 742 01:00:26,885 --> 01:00:30,912 But there are 35,000 people in Khartoum. 743 01:00:30,956 --> 01:00:36,451 Those are his purposes, and I believe him. 744 01:00:38,463 --> 01:00:41,694 The man is sincere. 745 01:00:41,733 --> 01:00:45,464 He believes utterly in the divine necessity... 746 01:00:45,504 --> 01:00:47,335 for what he's doing. 747 01:00:47,372 --> 01:00:49,897 How could I have been such a stumbling fool? 748 01:00:49,942 --> 01:00:51,876 I'm a man who will question anything... 749 01:00:51,910 --> 01:00:54,310 except my own religious convictions. 750 01:00:54,346 --> 01:00:56,246 The Mahdi's no different. 751 01:00:56,281 --> 01:00:59,648 There's vanity for you. 752 01:00:59,685 --> 01:01:02,017 I seem to have suffered from the illusion... 753 01:01:02,054 --> 01:01:05,455 that I have a monopoly on God. 754 01:01:05,490 --> 01:01:08,459 It's the failure. 755 01:01:08,493 --> 01:01:10,552 There are so many things I'm not afraid of... 756 01:01:10,596 --> 01:01:15,226 but... to fail... 757 01:01:15,267 --> 01:01:17,599 You haven't failed, sir. 758 01:01:17,636 --> 01:01:22,039 Who else could have found out the Mahdi's intentions? 759 01:01:23,609 --> 01:01:25,042 If I'd known about this in London... 760 01:01:25,077 --> 01:01:28,205 would I have recommended against sending an army? 761 01:01:28,247 --> 01:01:31,614 How could any British government survive a massacre like this... 762 01:01:31,650 --> 01:01:35,017 without making some attempt to forestall it? 763 01:01:35,053 --> 01:01:39,547 Yes. Get off a telegram to Cairo, immediately. 764 01:01:39,591 --> 01:01:42,253 If the government moves on this, they can-- 765 01:01:42,294 --> 01:01:43,488 Sir. 766 01:01:45,364 --> 01:01:46,956 The telegraph's been cut. 767 01:01:52,237 --> 01:01:54,865 - Where? - Below Metemmah. 768 01:01:57,075 --> 01:02:00,340 - When? - Today. 769 01:02:00,379 --> 01:02:05,442 Sir, Mohammed al Khalia attacked Berber at dawn. 770 01:02:05,484 --> 01:02:07,008 Your friend Sheikh Ali lbrahim... 771 01:02:07,052 --> 01:02:08,952 escaped downriver at 10:00 this morning... 772 01:02:08,987 --> 01:02:10,716 and since then there's been no message. 773 01:02:10,756 --> 01:02:12,815 We presume the city's fallen. 774 01:02:12,858 --> 01:02:17,090 If so, the Nile is closed. 775 01:02:17,129 --> 01:02:19,859 The evacuation. We must get these people-- 776 01:02:19,898 --> 01:02:22,230 Sir, there isn't going to be any evacuation. 777 01:02:22,267 --> 01:02:25,759 If they hold Berber, they've closed the Nile. 778 01:02:29,775 --> 01:02:33,040 Sweet Jesus. 779 01:02:38,650 --> 01:02:40,880 There is no alternative. 780 01:02:40,919 --> 01:02:43,410 Gladstone must send an army. 781 01:02:45,691 --> 01:02:47,625 If they've closed the Nile at Berber... 782 01:02:47,659 --> 01:02:50,822 we can get messengers across the desert as far as Debba. 783 01:02:50,862 --> 01:02:52,352 The telegraph must be working there. 784 01:02:52,397 --> 01:02:54,228 Yes. They can't have got that far. 785 01:02:54,266 --> 01:02:56,097 Call your staff together, Stewart. 786 01:02:56,134 --> 01:02:58,125 We must check the food supplies. 787 01:02:58,170 --> 01:03:01,003 We'll manage till help comes. 788 01:03:01,039 --> 01:03:03,735 I've been an engineer all my days. 789 01:03:03,775 --> 01:03:07,302 If I can't fortify a city with rivers on two sides of it... 790 01:03:07,346 --> 01:03:08,813 I should be broken to the ranks. 791 01:03:08,847 --> 01:03:11,077 - Go on. - Sir. 792 01:03:35,507 --> 01:03:39,136 Save Gordon. 793 01:03:53,759 --> 01:03:56,557 Prime Minister, how many more of these debates... 794 01:03:56,595 --> 01:03:59,325 can we survive? We must do something. 795 01:03:59,364 --> 01:04:01,229 If Gordon can get messengers out of Khartoum... 796 01:04:01,266 --> 01:04:02,597 he can get himself out. 797 01:04:02,634 --> 01:04:03,794 Prime Minister, please. 798 01:04:03,835 --> 01:04:05,894 Who is the government, Gordon or I? 799 01:04:05,937 --> 01:04:07,097 I've been talking to Wolseley. 800 01:04:07,139 --> 01:04:09,664 He can send a small detachment into the Sudan. 801 01:04:09,708 --> 01:04:11,198 He promises no further than Debba. 802 01:04:11,243 --> 01:04:13,871 I'll make no compromises with this man, Granville. 803 01:04:13,912 --> 01:04:15,971 I've distrusted him always, I distrust him now. 804 01:04:16,014 --> 01:04:19,745 A small detachment, for communication purposes only. 805 01:04:19,785 --> 01:04:21,616 A gesture. 806 01:04:21,653 --> 01:04:25,350 We are in trouble! 807 01:04:27,692 --> 01:04:30,957 Well, a small detachment. 808 01:04:30,996 --> 01:04:32,964 But I will not turn this government... 809 01:04:32,998 --> 01:04:34,795 to overseas adventure. 810 01:04:34,833 --> 01:04:37,324 Not for all the Gordons, the sentimentalists... 811 01:04:37,369 --> 01:04:39,997 the plots, the intrigues. 812 01:04:40,038 --> 01:04:42,029 Save Gordon. 813 01:04:49,714 --> 01:04:52,114 Now then, we are here. 814 01:04:52,150 --> 01:04:54,584 You see, here's the city wall right there... 815 01:04:54,619 --> 01:04:56,450 with your guns emplaced all along. 816 01:04:56,488 --> 01:04:58,456 And this is the ditch we're digging... 817 01:04:58,490 --> 01:05:00,890 connecting the white Nile to the blue Nile. 818 01:05:00,926 --> 01:05:04,657 Now, when it's flooded, the city will become an island... 819 01:05:04,696 --> 01:05:06,220 and if the Mahdi crosses the river... 820 01:05:06,264 --> 01:05:09,825 and attacks from out here, the ditch will stop any charge. 821 01:05:09,868 --> 01:05:11,699 But you must have your guns emplaced... 822 01:05:11,736 --> 01:05:13,966 so that their fields of fire overlap... 823 01:05:14,005 --> 01:05:15,472 then if one gun is knocked out... 824 01:05:15,507 --> 01:05:18,340 the next will still cover the same field. 825 01:05:18,376 --> 01:05:21,345 - Do you understand? - I understand, Gordon Pasha. 826 01:05:21,379 --> 01:05:23,506 I sincerely hope so, Major. 827 01:05:23,548 --> 01:05:25,880 Off you go. 828 01:06:03,755 --> 01:06:05,689 I've been wondering, sir. 829 01:06:05,724 --> 01:06:08,386 The Nile's aflood at the moment. 830 01:06:08,426 --> 01:06:10,792 What happens when it falls and our ditch goes dry? 831 01:06:10,829 --> 01:06:12,228 That won't be till next winter. 832 01:06:12,264 --> 01:06:13,822 If they haven't sent an army by then... 833 01:06:13,865 --> 01:06:16,663 we'll all be dead of old age. 834 01:06:16,701 --> 01:06:19,727 I don't think the Mahdi's waiting for that. 835 01:06:19,771 --> 01:06:23,366 I just saw them putting up his personal tents over the river. 836 01:06:23,408 --> 01:06:25,171 He's moving up. 837 01:06:25,210 --> 01:06:27,701 Well, I could have the ditch flooded in a few days. 838 01:06:27,746 --> 01:06:30,306 Good. I don't think he'll attack for a while. 839 01:06:30,348 --> 01:06:34,546 He'll try to tighten the siege first, weaken us. 840 01:06:34,586 --> 01:06:39,319 I want you to help me plan a giant-sized raiding party. 841 01:06:39,357 --> 01:06:41,154 I want to take it upcountry between the rivers... 842 01:06:41,192 --> 01:06:42,921 and bring back every head of cattle... 843 01:06:42,961 --> 01:06:45,191 every measure of wheat for a hundred miles. 844 01:06:45,230 --> 01:06:47,027 It might have to last us quite a while. 845 01:06:47,065 --> 01:06:50,125 Sounds like a dangerous job, so I better do it. 846 01:06:50,168 --> 01:06:51,658 It's in the orders. 847 01:06:51,703 --> 01:06:53,864 Forget the orders. Finish your ditch. 848 01:06:53,905 --> 01:06:55,202 Flood it when you're ready. 849 01:06:55,240 --> 01:06:57,640 Meanwhile, let me have a little fun. 850 01:08:31,403 --> 01:08:33,394 Stewart Pasha. 851 01:08:33,438 --> 01:08:35,736 Gordon Pasha is ten miles from the city... 852 01:08:35,774 --> 01:08:37,833 with a great convoy of grain and cattle. 853 01:08:37,876 --> 01:08:40,970 A spy brings news the Mahdi is attacking him at dawn. 854 01:09:22,787 --> 01:09:25,654 They're out there somewhere. 855 01:09:48,279 --> 01:09:50,144 We'll make a stand and hold them... 856 01:09:50,181 --> 01:09:52,775 while you take all the cattle and grain into Khartoum. 857 01:09:52,817 --> 01:09:54,842 If we divide, they'll have to divide. 858 01:09:54,886 --> 01:09:56,114 You take all the cavalry with you... 859 01:09:56,154 --> 01:09:57,587 but don't let them turn you. 860 01:09:57,622 --> 01:10:00,113 You must get the convoy into Khartoum. 861 01:10:00,158 --> 01:10:02,991 - Good luck to you. - Sir! 862 01:10:14,839 --> 01:10:16,431 Hurry! 863 01:10:25,316 --> 01:10:27,716 You, up the pace. Come on! 864 01:10:45,603 --> 01:10:48,470 Now then, we can hold them here while the convoy gets away. 865 01:10:48,506 --> 01:10:50,906 But keep your men low. Don't give them a target. 866 01:10:50,942 --> 01:10:53,410 Dismount yourselves. Get your horses down, too. 867 01:10:53,444 --> 01:10:54,911 Let them charge through us. 868 01:10:54,946 --> 01:10:57,244 Once they've passed us, we'll have them against the light. 869 01:10:57,282 --> 01:10:59,546 Well, good luck then. 870 01:10:59,584 --> 01:11:01,916 Be quick. 871 01:12:13,925 --> 01:12:15,222 Re-form! 872 01:12:15,260 --> 01:12:17,228 Re-form and prepare to fire! 873 01:12:17,262 --> 01:12:19,787 They're coming out of the light this time. 874 01:12:24,269 --> 01:12:25,896 Stand fast. 875 01:12:25,937 --> 01:12:28,132 Prepare to fire. 876 01:12:28,172 --> 01:12:29,730 Fire! 877 01:13:07,745 --> 01:13:11,044 Move forward! 878 01:13:24,595 --> 01:13:27,996 Ready... charge! 879 01:13:46,517 --> 01:13:48,644 They'll come at us again from the dark now. 880 01:13:48,686 --> 01:13:50,347 Take cover! 881 01:14:25,823 --> 01:14:27,051 Re-form! 882 01:15:21,679 --> 01:15:24,477 Nearly three hundred dead. 883 01:15:24,515 --> 01:15:27,075 How much of the convoy did we lose? 884 01:15:27,118 --> 01:15:31,054 None. You must have brought in all the loose grain and beef... 885 01:15:31,089 --> 01:15:34,081 this side of Abyssinia. 886 01:15:34,125 --> 01:15:36,889 It'll have to last us till relief comes. 887 01:15:39,597 --> 01:15:43,693 This came yesterday via Cairo and Kitchener. 888 01:15:43,734 --> 01:15:45,827 - I've read it. - Who's Kitchener? 889 01:15:45,870 --> 01:15:48,964 He's a major who's arrived at Debba with an army. 890 01:15:49,006 --> 01:15:51,907 Precisely twenty men. 891 01:16:01,252 --> 01:16:04,380 "You exaggerate the danger, sir. 892 01:16:04,422 --> 01:16:06,151 "Suspicion still exists, sir... 893 01:16:06,190 --> 01:16:07,885 "that you've created a situation... 894 01:16:07,925 --> 01:16:10,655 "to fit your own personal inclinations. 895 01:16:10,695 --> 01:16:13,095 "Leave Khartoum at once, sir. 896 01:16:13,131 --> 01:16:17,363 "This is your last, final, ultimate order." 897 01:16:17,401 --> 01:16:21,064 Obey the order, General. 898 01:16:21,105 --> 01:16:26,566 Go to London. Explain to them. You'll come back with an army. 899 01:16:26,611 --> 01:16:29,102 I'll come back with an army. 900 01:16:29,147 --> 01:16:31,945 They wouldn't listen to me. 901 01:16:31,983 --> 01:16:34,417 If they did, they wouldn't believe me. 902 01:16:34,452 --> 01:16:37,353 If they believed me, they'd keep me in England... 903 01:16:37,388 --> 01:16:41,256 if they had to lock me up in the tower of London. 904 01:16:43,361 --> 01:16:45,989 You're the one to go. 905 01:16:46,030 --> 01:16:48,521 They'd believe you if I stayed here as a hostage. 906 01:16:48,566 --> 01:16:50,693 They'd believe you because they must! 907 01:16:50,735 --> 01:16:52,202 I'll give you Khaleel. 908 01:16:52,236 --> 01:16:54,864 He knows the route through the desert and the wells. 909 01:16:54,906 --> 01:16:57,033 We've enough food here now to hold out for months. 910 01:16:57,074 --> 01:16:59,941 The Nile's too high for the Mahdi to attack. 911 01:16:59,977 --> 01:17:01,239 You must do it. 912 01:17:01,279 --> 01:17:03,406 Yes, sir. 913 01:17:03,447 --> 01:17:05,381 Let's get back. 914 01:18:00,538 --> 01:18:02,233 Kitchener. 915 01:18:07,144 --> 01:18:10,079 I'll take cholera, dysentery, sunstroke, fleas in my bed... 916 01:18:10,114 --> 01:18:12,708 Arabs in my hair, but I cannot take politicians. 917 01:18:12,750 --> 01:18:15,048 I wish you well, by heaven... 918 01:18:15,086 --> 01:18:17,611 but I don't envy you what you're up against. 919 01:18:17,655 --> 01:18:20,852 Your man better stay with us until you get back. 920 01:18:29,367 --> 01:18:30,891 Colonel Stewart, sir. 921 01:18:32,103 --> 01:18:34,071 Get out of the way! 922 01:18:34,105 --> 01:18:36,869 Say nothing, sir. Your carriage is there, sir. 923 01:18:36,907 --> 01:18:39,375 Clear the way, please. Say nothing. 924 01:18:48,719 --> 01:18:50,243 Sir. 925 01:18:50,288 --> 01:18:53,451 I wasn't prepared for all this excitement. 926 01:18:58,663 --> 01:19:01,393 The prime minister's waiting for you. 927 01:19:01,432 --> 01:19:02,694 I want you to know before you see him... 928 01:19:02,733 --> 01:19:03,927 that he missed a vote of censure... 929 01:19:03,968 --> 01:19:06,903 in the House of Commons yesterday by only a few votes. 930 01:19:06,937 --> 01:19:10,270 I want you to know also that I'm on General Gordon's side. 931 01:19:10,308 --> 01:19:12,469 You mean there's hope, sir? 932 01:19:12,510 --> 01:19:13,977 I mean nothing of the sort. 933 01:19:14,011 --> 01:19:15,171 Let's put all that aside. 934 01:19:15,212 --> 01:19:16,873 There's just one thing that matters. 935 01:19:16,914 --> 01:19:20,748 Did Gordon or did he not receive a direct order to return? 936 01:19:20,785 --> 01:19:21,945 He did. 937 01:19:21,986 --> 01:19:24,216 Could Gordon or could he not be standing there in front of me? 938 01:19:24,255 --> 01:19:25,415 He could. 939 01:19:25,456 --> 01:19:27,185 Then, Colonel Stewart... 940 01:19:27,224 --> 01:19:29,886 does your presence here confirm or deny... 941 01:19:29,927 --> 01:19:31,861 Gordon's total disobedience? 942 01:19:31,896 --> 01:19:35,593 - It confirms it. - It's blackmail! 943 01:19:35,633 --> 01:19:38,693 A man--one man-- in the middle of Africa... 944 01:19:38,736 --> 01:19:41,034 is blackmailing the British government... 945 01:19:41,072 --> 01:19:42,505 into a course of action... 946 01:19:42,540 --> 01:19:44,440 it wouldn't otherwise choose to take. 947 01:19:44,475 --> 01:19:46,102 I don't agree, sir. 948 01:19:46,143 --> 01:19:49,271 You don't agree? 949 01:19:49,313 --> 01:19:53,511 Is it really blackmail when one man... 950 01:19:53,551 --> 01:19:56,042 a long way off in a besieged desert town... 951 01:19:56,087 --> 01:19:57,918 calls to you and says... 952 01:19:57,955 --> 01:20:00,014 "Allow these tens of thousands of human beings... 953 01:20:00,057 --> 01:20:02,025 "to be slaughtered, if you will. 954 01:20:02,059 --> 01:20:04,459 "It's your decision. But allow me the privilege... 955 01:20:04,495 --> 01:20:06,087 "of being slaughtered with them"? 956 01:20:06,130 --> 01:20:10,760 You see, sir, if Khartoum is allowed to die... 957 01:20:10,801 --> 01:20:13,361 then Gordon will die with it. 958 01:20:14,805 --> 01:20:17,137 It may be blackmail... 959 01:20:17,174 --> 01:20:21,110 and if it is, then I'm for blackmail. 960 01:20:29,320 --> 01:20:32,050 Send in Lord Wolseley. 961 01:20:32,089 --> 01:20:35,855 When I think how history will record someday... 962 01:20:35,893 --> 01:20:38,726 that the decisions of an empire were made only... 963 01:20:38,763 --> 01:20:41,755 by greedy businessmen, scheming generals... 964 01:20:41,799 --> 01:20:45,701 and conniving politicians... 965 01:20:45,736 --> 01:20:48,261 It's up the Nile for you, Wolseley. 966 01:20:48,305 --> 01:20:52,765 Up the Nile to save one stubborn madman. 967 01:20:52,810 --> 01:20:57,406 But let me tell you, if you do a Billy Hicks on me-- 968 01:20:57,448 --> 01:21:00,542 if you take a British army into central Africa... 969 01:21:00,584 --> 01:21:03,485 and present me with any portion of a disaster... 970 01:21:03,521 --> 01:21:06,251 then don't come back. 971 01:21:06,290 --> 01:21:07,689 Am I clear? 972 01:21:07,725 --> 01:21:09,249 You are clear. 973 01:21:09,293 --> 01:21:11,261 Colonel Stewart, inform your General Gordon... 974 01:21:11,295 --> 01:21:12,956 that a British army will be sailing... 975 01:21:12,997 --> 01:21:16,091 as quickly as possible for Cairo. 976 01:21:16,133 --> 01:21:18,067 Thank you, sir. 977 01:21:18,102 --> 01:21:19,296 Sir. 978 01:24:50,780 --> 01:24:52,008 Khaleel. 979 01:24:52,047 --> 01:24:54,208 Get me Colonel Stewart's man, Khaleel. 980 01:24:54,250 --> 01:24:55,444 Sir. 981 01:25:01,657 --> 01:25:03,249 We didn't want to come to the palace. 982 01:25:03,292 --> 01:25:05,886 This is informal, but it's serious. 983 01:25:05,928 --> 01:25:07,862 General, people are afraid. 984 01:25:07,897 --> 01:25:10,263 They have a right to be. 985 01:25:10,299 --> 01:25:12,290 What about this relief army? 986 01:25:12,334 --> 01:25:16,065 Why the hysteria? There's still enough food. 987 01:25:16,105 --> 01:25:20,166 What we're short of isn't food. It's hope. 988 01:25:20,209 --> 01:25:22,074 Power, you're English. You know the government... 989 01:25:22,111 --> 01:25:24,079 how long they take to make decisions. 990 01:25:24,113 --> 01:25:26,581 You all know how many weeks it is to London... 991 01:25:26,615 --> 01:25:27,775 how many weeks back. 992 01:25:27,817 --> 01:25:30,149 It could be another month before we have word. 993 01:25:30,186 --> 01:25:32,211 I'm an old friend, you believe me. 994 01:25:32,254 --> 01:25:35,587 I tell you, in the bazaars, I hear things. 995 01:25:35,624 --> 01:25:36,921 It isn't good. 996 01:25:36,959 --> 01:25:41,692 What am I supposed to give them, promises I can't keep? 997 01:25:41,730 --> 01:25:43,925 Tell them lies to keep up morale? 998 01:25:43,966 --> 01:25:46,594 Maybe small lies. Just a few. 999 01:25:46,635 --> 01:25:48,262 Little ones? 1000 01:25:53,075 --> 01:25:54,736 Khaleel! 1001 01:25:54,777 --> 01:25:56,267 Yes, master? Good morning. 1002 01:25:56,312 --> 01:25:57,540 It is such a pleasant thing to-- 1003 01:25:57,580 --> 01:25:59,514 Khaleel, what are you doing here? 1004 01:25:59,548 --> 01:26:01,015 Where is Colonel Stewart? 1005 01:26:01,050 --> 01:26:02,608 Yes, master, I do not know. 1006 01:26:02,651 --> 01:26:04,346 But as I was saying, that little place, Debba... 1007 01:26:04,386 --> 01:26:05,819 by the river, is the most boring place-- 1008 01:26:05,855 --> 01:26:07,618 - Khaleel! - I'm to be home. 1009 01:26:07,656 --> 01:26:10,523 Yes, the Major Kitchener sends his greetings. 1010 01:26:10,559 --> 01:26:13,027 Most interesting man, the Major Kitchener. 1011 01:26:23,505 --> 01:26:25,564 It's Stewart. He's sailed from England... 1012 01:26:25,608 --> 01:26:27,803 with Wolseley and 7,000 men! 1013 01:26:29,311 --> 01:26:30,835 They're coming! 1014 01:26:30,880 --> 01:26:32,905 The British are coming! 1015 01:26:58,107 --> 01:27:01,975 I do not have the ingredient here, Gordon Pasha... 1016 01:27:02,011 --> 01:27:03,603 but if you will come back to the palace... 1017 01:27:03,646 --> 01:27:06,137 I will make you a B & S. 1018 01:27:15,357 --> 01:27:17,985 Squad, attention! 1019 01:27:18,027 --> 01:27:20,257 Stand the camels. 1020 01:27:22,331 --> 01:27:24,265 Mount! 1021 01:27:59,234 --> 01:28:01,566 You--did you come here on holiday? 1022 01:28:01,603 --> 01:28:03,901 You think you've come to Egypt on leave? 1023 01:28:03,939 --> 01:28:05,429 Look at those buttons--filthy. 1024 01:28:05,474 --> 01:28:07,135 Look at this. Disgraceful. 1025 01:28:07,176 --> 01:28:08,575 What would Her Majesty say? 1026 01:28:08,610 --> 01:28:10,305 You there, stand up. 1027 01:28:10,346 --> 01:28:13,315 I don't say it isn't necessary, sir... 1028 01:28:13,349 --> 01:28:15,283 but we've been in Egypt for six weeks now... 1029 01:28:15,317 --> 01:28:18,047 and the Nile is falling. 1030 01:28:18,087 --> 01:28:20,385 What I feel I must point out... 1031 01:28:20,422 --> 01:28:22,822 is that the fall of the Nile in Khartoum... 1032 01:28:22,858 --> 01:28:25,759 comes two months earlier than here in Cairo. 1033 01:28:25,794 --> 01:28:28,058 And that when the Nile has fallen sufficiently... 1034 01:28:28,097 --> 01:28:30,031 Khartoum will be defenseless. 1035 01:28:30,065 --> 01:28:32,966 Thank you, Colonel Stewart. 1036 01:28:33,002 --> 01:28:35,470 But you know as well as I do... 1037 01:28:35,504 --> 01:28:37,802 that men who have not been fully conditioned... 1038 01:28:37,840 --> 01:28:39,967 to the tropical climate simply cannot fight. 1039 01:28:40,009 --> 01:28:43,172 They'll die... by the platoons, by the company. 1040 01:28:43,212 --> 01:28:46,147 I agree, sir, but couldn't you send ahead... 1041 01:28:46,181 --> 01:28:50,447 a detachment of your best-conditioned men? 1042 01:28:50,486 --> 01:28:52,750 No, Stewart. 1043 01:28:52,788 --> 01:28:54,380 I'm sorry. 1044 01:28:55,657 --> 01:28:57,887 Excuse me. 1045 01:29:00,562 --> 01:29:03,030 Don't be too hard on Wolseley. 1046 01:29:03,065 --> 01:29:04,657 You haven't seen his instructions yet. 1047 01:29:04,700 --> 01:29:06,565 I was there. He's to relieve Khartoum. 1048 01:29:06,602 --> 01:29:08,502 Colonel, I've seen the orders. 1049 01:29:08,537 --> 01:29:12,132 He's to bring out Gordon. There's no mention of Khartoum. 1050 01:29:12,174 --> 01:29:13,766 Wolseley knows. 1051 01:29:13,809 --> 01:29:17,677 He's to proceed up the Nile as slowly as possible. 1052 01:29:17,713 --> 01:29:21,308 He'll move up to Wadi Halfa shortly, yes, but he knows. 1053 01:29:21,350 --> 01:29:24,285 He's to give Gordon every chance at the last minute... 1054 01:29:24,319 --> 01:29:26,583 to come out by his own choice. 1055 01:29:26,622 --> 01:29:28,385 But Gordon won't come out. 1056 01:29:28,424 --> 01:29:30,153 You know it. I now know it. 1057 01:29:30,192 --> 01:29:31,682 I'm sure that Wolseley knows it. 1058 01:29:31,727 --> 01:29:33,786 They've been friends always. That's why I say... 1059 01:29:33,829 --> 01:29:35,319 don't be too hard on him. 1060 01:29:35,364 --> 01:29:37,958 It's the government that's unconvinced. 1061 01:29:39,968 --> 01:29:43,768 I can well understand why you haven't told me this before. 1062 01:29:43,806 --> 01:29:45,740 Why do you tell me now? 1063 01:29:45,774 --> 01:29:47,298 Because it's on the cards, Colonel... 1064 01:29:47,342 --> 01:29:50,140 that this expedition will be too late. 1065 01:29:50,179 --> 01:29:52,010 Gordon should come out. 1066 01:29:52,047 --> 01:29:54,948 There's no one to tell him but you. 1067 01:30:18,140 --> 01:30:20,472 Didn't he say where they're mounting them? 1068 01:30:20,509 --> 01:30:21,942 He does not know, Excellency. 1069 01:30:21,977 --> 01:30:24,741 He saw the guns arriving, that is all. 1070 01:30:33,122 --> 01:30:35,920 You were Gladstone's gesture last year. 1071 01:30:35,958 --> 01:30:37,892 This year, it's Wolseley. 1072 01:30:39,094 --> 01:30:41,460 Sir, I failed. 1073 01:30:41,497 --> 01:30:44,330 I thought I'd made it clear to them... 1074 01:30:44,366 --> 01:30:46,334 that you'd never come out. 1075 01:30:46,368 --> 01:30:49,098 - I didn't. - You probably did. 1076 01:30:49,138 --> 01:30:51,766 Gladstone's a gambler. He's gambling. 1077 01:30:51,807 --> 01:30:53,900 No, they all think you should come out. 1078 01:30:53,942 --> 01:30:55,807 So do I. 1079 01:31:00,749 --> 01:31:02,580 Sir... 1080 01:31:02,618 --> 01:31:06,145 what's the absolute limit of time we can hold out here? 1081 01:31:06,188 --> 01:31:07,883 I don't know. 1082 01:31:07,923 --> 01:31:12,656 The Mahdi's brought up the guns he captured from Hicks. 1083 01:31:12,694 --> 01:31:15,185 That means he'll start a bombardment. 1084 01:31:16,732 --> 01:31:19,064 - How low is the ditch? - It's low. 1085 01:31:19,101 --> 01:31:21,331 And the news'll be all over town by morning-- 1086 01:31:21,370 --> 01:31:24,066 the steamer arrived and no army. 1087 01:31:24,106 --> 01:31:26,700 There'll be a panic. 1088 01:31:26,742 --> 01:31:29,336 Sir, you haven't got a chance. 1089 01:31:29,378 --> 01:31:31,608 I haven't got a choice. 1090 01:31:31,647 --> 01:31:34,673 If Wolseley's orders are to save only me and not Khartoum... 1091 01:31:34,716 --> 01:31:36,206 I'm left with no choice. 1092 01:31:36,251 --> 01:31:38,242 How could I leave? Tell me. 1093 01:31:39,888 --> 01:31:44,018 What purpose is served if Wolseley's too late... 1094 01:31:44,059 --> 01:31:46,084 and Mahdi attacks? 1095 01:31:46,128 --> 01:31:49,791 There are worse ways to die. Many. 1096 01:31:49,831 --> 01:31:52,026 That's the essence of it, I suppose. 1097 01:31:52,067 --> 01:31:54,627 Every man has a final weapon-- 1098 01:31:54,670 --> 01:31:58,436 his life--and if he's afraid of losing it... 1099 01:31:58,473 --> 01:32:00,998 he throws that weapon away. 1100 01:32:01,043 --> 01:32:03,671 That's what they can't quite grasp... 1101 01:32:03,712 --> 01:32:07,079 that I'm not really afraid. 1102 01:32:07,115 --> 01:32:10,949 And that's what they must understand, isn't it? 1103 01:32:12,087 --> 01:32:15,989 No one can make them understand it except me. 1104 01:32:17,893 --> 01:32:20,657 You must be tired. 1105 01:32:20,696 --> 01:32:24,530 Meet me at the dock tomorrow, early. 1106 01:32:24,566 --> 01:32:25,760 Good night. 1107 01:32:29,938 --> 01:32:31,929 Good night, sir. 1108 01:33:13,682 --> 01:33:15,843 To get her through the blockade, we'll have to armor the rail... 1109 01:33:15,951 --> 01:33:18,784 set up troop guns here, another one up forward. 1110 01:33:18,820 --> 01:33:21,755 We'll carry the extra fuel behind in a couple of luggers. 1111 01:33:21,790 --> 01:33:24,281 I want every European in Khartoum on this boat-- 1112 01:33:24,326 --> 01:33:26,521 the wives, children, counsels, too-- 1113 01:33:26,561 --> 01:33:28,085 Frank Power and Herbin... 1114 01:33:28,130 --> 01:33:30,928 and every Egyptian civilian you can stack on board. 1115 01:33:30,966 --> 01:33:32,524 You must get them all out. 1116 01:33:32,567 --> 01:33:37,004 You mean I go with them, and you stay here? 1117 01:33:37,039 --> 01:33:39,166 Khartoum is my problem. 1118 01:33:39,207 --> 01:33:41,402 Getting these people out is yours. 1119 01:33:41,443 --> 01:33:45,539 How else can I convince London that I will not leave? 1120 01:33:45,580 --> 01:33:48,378 But you'll be completely alone. 1121 01:33:48,417 --> 01:33:49,941 It's a gesture. 1122 01:33:49,985 --> 01:33:53,477 Come, little lady. 1123 01:33:53,522 --> 01:33:54,955 We'll take you back home. 1124 01:33:54,990 --> 01:33:57,322 Mr. Gladstone must understand... 1125 01:33:57,359 --> 01:34:00,556 that I am capable of gestures, too. 1126 01:34:02,531 --> 01:34:03,725 Hassan! 1127 01:34:35,063 --> 01:34:40,296 I don't ask you to be unafraid, simply to act unafraid. 1128 01:34:52,647 --> 01:34:54,877 How are you going to handle Khartoum... 1129 01:34:54,916 --> 01:34:56,679 when the word gets around that we're gone? 1130 01:34:56,718 --> 01:34:58,276 How are you going to handle Berber... 1131 01:34:58,320 --> 01:35:01,118 if Mohammed al Khalia has heavy guns? 1132 01:35:01,156 --> 01:35:02,783 We sink. 1133 01:35:02,824 --> 01:35:05,850 We'll both take our chances. 1134 01:35:05,894 --> 01:35:08,124 There are several letters in here-- 1135 01:35:08,163 --> 01:35:12,759 appeals to Her Majesty the Queen, the Pope in Rome... 1136 01:35:12,801 --> 01:35:14,632 the Sultan in Constantinople. 1137 01:35:14,669 --> 01:35:16,796 They're all for public display. 1138 01:35:16,838 --> 01:35:20,899 There's only one appeal that matters--Wolseley. 1139 01:35:20,942 --> 01:35:23,342 And through Wolseley, Gladstone. 1140 01:35:23,378 --> 01:35:27,280 Perhaps now you can convince him. 1141 01:35:27,315 --> 01:35:28,976 Get through. 1142 01:35:29,017 --> 01:35:30,985 You'll get through. 1143 01:35:34,022 --> 01:35:36,013 Good luck. 1144 01:35:41,830 --> 01:35:44,162 Gordon Pasha, we are ready to sail. 1145 01:35:44,199 --> 01:35:46,133 Thank you, Hassan. 1146 01:36:16,064 --> 01:36:18,362 Why didn't we go, Gordon Pasha? 1147 01:36:18,400 --> 01:36:20,698 Why wasn't I on the boat, Gordon Pasha? 1148 01:36:20,735 --> 01:36:22,396 I should've gone on the boat. 1149 01:36:45,861 --> 01:36:48,591 This is Metemmah. We'll refuel. 1150 01:36:48,630 --> 01:36:50,598 Beyond here, the shore is held solidly... 1151 01:36:50,632 --> 01:36:52,099 by Mahdi's tribesmen... 1152 01:36:52,133 --> 01:36:54,260 so you better go ashore and stretch your legs. 1153 01:36:54,302 --> 01:36:55,735 Be your last chance. 1154 01:36:55,770 --> 01:36:58,000 Firewood? We have no firewood. 1155 01:36:58,039 --> 01:36:59,301 Well, trees. 1156 01:36:59,341 --> 01:37:00,501 Trees? Do you see trees? 1157 01:37:00,542 --> 01:37:02,601 Yes, a mile or two from the town... 1158 01:37:02,644 --> 01:37:04,441 and Egyptians hanging from them-- 1159 01:37:04,479 --> 01:37:06,276 I need fuel. Tear out the dock! 1160 01:37:12,721 --> 01:37:14,780 Come on! 1161 01:37:31,106 --> 01:37:33,074 This is all we have left? 1162 01:37:33,108 --> 01:37:34,803 This is all we have left. 1163 01:37:34,843 --> 01:37:38,176 Excellency, do not blame the superintendent. 1164 01:37:38,213 --> 01:37:40,443 Someone presented orders for grain... 1165 01:37:40,482 --> 01:37:42,780 with your forged signature and seal. 1166 01:37:42,817 --> 01:37:44,751 He sold it in the town for profit. 1167 01:37:44,786 --> 01:37:47,346 Find him. He will be executed. 1168 01:37:48,823 --> 01:37:50,757 For how long shall we eat? 1169 01:37:50,792 --> 01:37:54,785 The garrison will eat for about two weeks. 1170 01:37:54,829 --> 01:37:56,524 The town... 1171 01:37:56,565 --> 01:37:59,090 Requisition all stocks of grain in the hands of merchants. 1172 01:37:59,134 --> 01:38:00,431 There is little, Gordon Pasha. 1173 01:38:00,468 --> 01:38:04,598 All privately-owned livestock, donkeys, goats, camels. 1174 01:38:18,086 --> 01:38:23,114 We ride beneath no more desert stars, then. 1175 01:38:23,158 --> 01:38:26,025 All things must end. 1176 01:38:27,028 --> 01:38:28,859 Take him, too. 1177 01:38:36,304 --> 01:38:38,067 We reach Berber tomorrow morning. 1178 01:38:38,106 --> 01:38:40,097 This is the main point of blockade... 1179 01:38:40,141 --> 01:38:42,132 so we'll be attacked from both shores. 1180 01:38:42,177 --> 01:38:43,439 If we get through... 1181 01:38:43,478 --> 01:38:46,447 it'll be luck, discipline, and surprise. 1182 01:38:46,481 --> 01:38:48,449 Pray for surprise. 1183 01:38:48,483 --> 01:38:51,680 And pray also that Mohammed al Khalia... 1184 01:38:51,720 --> 01:38:54,211 has no heavy guns. 1185 01:39:01,896 --> 01:39:05,957 Can't we move any further from the shore than this, Captain? 1186 01:39:06,001 --> 01:39:07,229 I'm sorry, Stewart Pasha. 1187 01:39:07,268 --> 01:39:09,668 We're already too close to the sand bank. 1188 01:39:46,908 --> 01:39:48,307 Full speed. 1189 01:39:52,447 --> 01:39:54,005 Number one, fire! 1190 01:39:56,484 --> 01:39:58,076 Number two, fire! 1191 01:40:00,221 --> 01:40:01,415 Fire at will! 1192 01:40:45,500 --> 01:40:47,559 They have no heavy guns. 1193 01:40:47,602 --> 01:40:49,797 We'll make it. 1194 01:40:59,147 --> 01:41:01,342 They're coming. 1195 01:41:14,362 --> 01:41:16,455 Below. 1196 01:42:00,575 --> 01:42:02,065 Salaam Malachim. 1197 01:42:02,110 --> 01:42:03,737 Malachim Salaam. 1198 01:42:05,847 --> 01:42:09,214 The Mahdi and l--we look at each other across the river... 1199 01:42:09,250 --> 01:42:11,047 we assault each other with assurance. 1200 01:42:11,085 --> 01:42:14,486 Mostly the assurance that we're still here. 1201 01:42:14,522 --> 01:42:16,888 I'm late. Forgive me. 1202 01:42:16,925 --> 01:42:18,483 Where is the army? 1203 01:42:21,129 --> 01:42:23,859 For whom do you speak, Sheikh Osman? 1204 01:42:23,898 --> 01:42:26,696 For myself, for the leaders of our people. 1205 01:42:30,538 --> 01:42:32,802 We do not come to you, Gordon Pasha... 1206 01:42:32,841 --> 01:42:34,274 with cries and wails... 1207 01:42:34,309 --> 01:42:36,072 "Why did you not send us down the river... 1208 01:42:36,110 --> 01:42:37,270 "beyond the fringe of danger?" 1209 01:42:37,312 --> 01:42:39,075 We are not of Egypt. 1210 01:42:39,113 --> 01:42:40,910 We are Sudanese. 1211 01:42:40,949 --> 01:42:42,712 And this is our country... 1212 01:42:42,750 --> 01:42:45,685 and this is our people within these walls. 1213 01:42:45,720 --> 01:42:47,745 When does the army come? 1214 01:42:48,857 --> 01:42:52,816 Good sirs, I can only tell you what I know. 1215 01:42:52,861 --> 01:42:57,264 I sent Stewart Pasha downriver to urge all possible haste. 1216 01:42:57,298 --> 01:42:58,890 It has been ten days. 1217 01:42:58,933 --> 01:43:02,369 He should have reached Major Kitchener in five or six. 1218 01:43:02,403 --> 01:43:04,064 It should not be long. 1219 01:43:04,105 --> 01:43:05,504 How long? 1220 01:43:07,175 --> 01:43:09,575 The Nile is low, Gordon Pasha. 1221 01:43:09,677 --> 01:43:13,408 Bellies grow empty. Men feed on fear. 1222 01:43:13,448 --> 01:43:18,044 You do not have this fear of death yourself, Excellency? 1223 01:43:18,086 --> 01:43:20,611 It's a luxury I've put behind me. 1224 01:43:20,655 --> 01:43:24,284 You are exceptional. 1225 01:43:24,325 --> 01:43:27,783 Gordon Pasha, when we accepted your protection... 1226 01:43:27,829 --> 01:43:29,797 for ourselves and for our people... 1227 01:43:29,831 --> 01:43:33,096 the Mahdi marked our souls for damnation. 1228 01:43:33,134 --> 01:43:34,328 We were not afraid. 1229 01:43:34,369 --> 01:43:35,859 We trusted you. 1230 01:43:35,904 --> 01:43:38,236 Did we choose correctly? 1231 01:43:38,273 --> 01:43:40,605 You could not choose otherwise. 1232 01:43:40,642 --> 01:43:42,735 It was against your convictions. 1233 01:43:42,777 --> 01:43:46,611 We now speak of life and death, not convictions. 1234 01:43:50,785 --> 01:43:53,948 Do you propose going over to the Mahdi? 1235 01:43:53,988 --> 01:43:55,888 We propose nothing. 1236 01:43:55,924 --> 01:43:58,688 We ask, "Where is the army?" 1237 01:43:58,726 --> 01:44:00,318 I don't know. 1238 01:44:00,361 --> 01:44:03,455 I am wondering, is there an army? 1239 01:44:03,498 --> 01:44:06,990 Don't call me a liar! 1240 01:44:07,035 --> 01:44:09,003 I beg of you... 1241 01:44:09,037 --> 01:44:12,006 or I shall have to lock you up. 1242 01:44:12,040 --> 01:44:13,632 We are locked up now. 1243 01:44:13,675 --> 01:44:15,768 Sheikh Osman... 1244 01:44:15,810 --> 01:44:18,870 you are Khartoum's most respected citizen. 1245 01:44:18,913 --> 01:44:20,938 If you leave, the city's spirit will break. 1246 01:44:20,982 --> 01:44:22,313 It will surely fall. 1247 01:44:22,350 --> 01:44:24,716 And you will be responsible for its massacre. 1248 01:44:24,752 --> 01:44:27,016 I have no choice but to stay. 1249 01:44:27,055 --> 01:44:29,250 I repeat-- you have us locked in. 1250 01:44:29,290 --> 01:44:32,157 - Gordon Pasha-- - Wait! 1251 01:44:32,193 --> 01:44:36,630 If you were given the choice, you still could not do this. 1252 01:44:36,664 --> 01:44:39,155 You could not leave Khartoum. 1253 01:44:39,200 --> 01:44:43,830 When one cannot choose, one can never know. 1254 01:44:43,871 --> 01:44:46,999 But you will understand, will you not, Excellency... 1255 01:44:47,041 --> 01:44:48,633 that there are those among us... 1256 01:44:48,676 --> 01:44:51,144 more afraid of death than yourself. 1257 01:44:51,179 --> 01:44:53,647 We cannot all be exceptional. 1258 01:45:07,328 --> 01:45:10,297 Gordon Pasha, the police. 1259 01:45:10,331 --> 01:45:12,993 They have the man who stole the grain. 1260 01:45:28,616 --> 01:45:32,416 Awaan, is this true? 1261 01:45:40,661 --> 01:45:43,061 Tomorrow morning. 1262 01:45:59,647 --> 01:46:03,811 Firing squad, take aim! 1263 01:46:03,851 --> 01:46:05,216 Fire! 1264 01:46:17,065 --> 01:46:19,829 As Governor General of the Sudan... 1265 01:46:19,867 --> 01:46:22,597 I issue the following proclamation-- 1266 01:46:22,637 --> 01:46:26,403 at dawn tomorrow... 1267 01:46:26,441 --> 01:46:30,901 the city gate to the south will be opened. 1268 01:46:30,945 --> 01:46:34,676 It will stand open for three hours. 1269 01:46:34,715 --> 01:46:38,947 All inhabitants of the city who wish to leave... 1270 01:46:38,986 --> 01:46:42,114 and seek the protection of Mohammed Ahmed... 1271 01:46:42,156 --> 01:46:44,556 known as the Mahdi... 1272 01:46:44,592 --> 01:46:46,685 will be free to do so. 1273 01:46:46,727 --> 01:46:51,528 No hindrance will be placed in their way. 1274 01:47:50,458 --> 01:47:51,857 I can't believe it. 1275 01:47:51,893 --> 01:47:55,294 When did you say the others passed through? 1276 01:47:55,329 --> 01:47:57,388 A month ago. 1277 01:48:08,876 --> 01:48:10,844 An armed steamer called the Abbas... 1278 01:48:10,878 --> 01:48:12,846 passed through Metemmah downstream a month ago... 1279 01:48:12,880 --> 01:48:14,313 and is since unreported. 1280 01:48:14,348 --> 01:48:16,873 General Gordon had placed all of Khartoum's Europeans... 1281 01:48:16,918 --> 01:48:18,078 aboard the steamer... 1282 01:48:18,119 --> 01:48:20,679 with instructions to run the blockade. 1283 01:48:20,721 --> 01:48:23,383 Colonel Stewart was in command. 1284 01:48:23,424 --> 01:48:25,289 Stewart! 1285 01:48:25,326 --> 01:48:29,558 Are you quite sure that General Gordon wasn't on board? 1286 01:48:29,597 --> 01:48:31,622 General Gordon remained in Khartoum. 1287 01:48:31,666 --> 01:48:35,329 Sir, the Nile is falling. 1288 01:48:39,574 --> 01:48:42,065 What he's done is to make a public announcement, sir... 1289 01:48:42,109 --> 01:48:44,907 that cannot be misunderstood. 1290 01:48:44,946 --> 01:48:46,573 He'll never leave. 1291 01:48:46,614 --> 01:48:48,809 Gentlemen... 1292 01:48:48,849 --> 01:48:50,749 if you please. 1293 01:48:50,785 --> 01:48:53,515 We move instantly on Khartoum. 1294 01:48:53,554 --> 01:48:55,579 Only the camel corps is ready. 1295 01:48:55,623 --> 01:48:57,147 You, Sir Herbert, will take command. 1296 01:48:57,191 --> 01:48:58,522 I will stay here with the main force... 1297 01:48:58,559 --> 01:49:00,117 moving up as soon as possible. 1298 01:49:00,161 --> 01:49:03,096 But you will go ahead by water to Debba... 1299 01:49:03,130 --> 01:49:04,654 make a formation there... 1300 01:49:04,699 --> 01:49:06,826 and then take the desert crossing to Metemmah... 1301 01:49:06,867 --> 01:49:09,301 there to embark for Khartoum. 1302 01:49:09,337 --> 01:49:11,703 Kitchener knows the route and the wells. 1303 01:49:11,739 --> 01:49:13,730 Move, gentlemen. 1304 01:49:23,718 --> 01:49:24,946 Stand your camels. 1305 01:49:26,387 --> 01:49:27,684 Mount! 1306 01:49:33,461 --> 01:49:36,897 Advance in a column of sections from the right. 1307 01:49:36,931 --> 01:49:38,421 Walk! 1308 01:50:31,352 --> 01:50:33,320 Did you pack the powder tightly? 1309 01:50:33,354 --> 01:50:34,685 Yes, Gordon Pasha. 1310 01:50:34,722 --> 01:50:36,553 All right, then. 1311 01:50:36,590 --> 01:50:39,457 No, not too much sand on the fuse, men. 1312 01:50:39,493 --> 01:50:41,791 Give it plenty of air to burn. 1313 01:50:49,003 --> 01:50:54,407 Now, you see, by firing this pistol into the tinderbox... 1314 01:50:54,442 --> 01:50:57,900 we can set off as many fuses as we have running into them. 1315 01:51:03,818 --> 01:51:06,343 Like this. 1316 01:51:18,799 --> 01:51:20,596 Come along. 1317 01:51:21,602 --> 01:51:23,900 - Call your men in. - Right. Over here. 1318 01:51:24,905 --> 01:51:26,497 Quickly. 1319 01:51:42,857 --> 01:51:46,293 Good. Should be able to set off about twenty fuses... 1320 01:51:46,327 --> 01:51:47,760 from each tinderbox. 1321 01:51:47,795 --> 01:51:49,456 I'll want at least 400 pots. 1322 01:51:49,497 --> 01:51:51,226 The whole approach to the city must be mined. 1323 01:51:51,265 --> 01:51:52,857 Yes, Gordon Pasha. 1324 01:52:31,205 --> 01:52:32,604 Halt! 1325 01:52:35,743 --> 01:52:38,871 Form battle square. Take up action stations. 1326 01:52:38,913 --> 01:52:41,040 Down! 1327 01:53:49,750 --> 01:53:52,218 By now the Christian soldiers are on the river. 1328 01:53:52,253 --> 01:53:54,619 - Attack, beloved one. - Attack now, holy person. 1329 01:53:54,655 --> 01:53:57,556 There is no more time. It is the moment. 1330 01:53:57,591 --> 01:54:01,618 Beloved one, give me the word. 1331 01:54:01,662 --> 01:54:04,324 Do I make my preparations? 1332 01:54:10,104 --> 01:54:13,096 Send me the one who writes English words. 1333 01:54:53,180 --> 01:54:55,444 - Wonderful! - Gentlemen, what is this? 1334 01:54:55,482 --> 01:54:56,642 Excellency! 1335 01:54:56,684 --> 01:54:58,618 From Major Kitchener, a message at last! 1336 01:54:58,652 --> 01:55:01,450 British soldiers have crossed the desert at Metemmah. 1337 01:55:01,488 --> 01:55:03,479 They approach Khartoum on the river! 1338 01:55:06,160 --> 01:55:07,684 And Stewart Pasha? 1339 01:55:07,728 --> 01:55:09,320 He's safe, Excellency. 1340 01:55:09,363 --> 01:55:11,160 Their bus was delayed, but it is safe. 1341 01:55:11,198 --> 01:55:14,190 But the messenger says, so you'll know the news is true... 1342 01:55:14,234 --> 01:55:16,702 "Stewart Pasha still has the ring you gave him." 1343 01:55:17,705 --> 01:55:22,074 Give the man money, something to eat. 1344 01:55:24,745 --> 01:55:27,578 The messenger from the Major Kitchener... 1345 01:55:27,615 --> 01:55:29,913 eats and says thank you. 1346 01:55:31,118 --> 01:55:32,585 He's very brave. 1347 01:55:32,620 --> 01:55:35,589 I said to the messenger, "Is it true that... 1348 01:55:35,623 --> 01:55:37,591 "the Major Kitchener has big dark eyes... 1349 01:55:37,625 --> 01:55:39,252 "like flies in the night?" 1350 01:55:39,293 --> 01:55:40,920 And he say it's true... 1351 01:55:40,961 --> 01:55:43,930 that his eyes are like black daggers... 1352 01:55:43,964 --> 01:55:45,955 and before them, all men tremble. 1353 01:55:47,635 --> 01:55:52,800 The Major Kitchener has eyes as blue as little flowers. 1354 01:55:53,974 --> 01:55:55,271 The man was bragging. 1355 01:55:55,309 --> 01:55:58,335 He'd never seen Kitchener. He didn't want to say so. 1356 01:55:58,379 --> 01:56:00,904 That's true, master. 1357 01:56:02,650 --> 01:56:04,447 If he was lying... 1358 01:56:04,485 --> 01:56:07,943 how could he know about that ring I gave Stewart Pasha? 1359 01:56:07,988 --> 01:56:11,219 Anyway, if the Mahdi wanted to send me a false message... 1360 01:56:11,258 --> 01:56:13,226 why would he say the soldiers were coming? 1361 01:56:13,260 --> 01:56:14,921 It makes no sense, Khaleel. 1362 01:56:15,929 --> 01:56:17,726 That is right, master. 1363 01:57:02,976 --> 01:57:06,434 Tell Abdullah he may make his preparations. 1364 01:57:06,480 --> 01:57:08,414 Then he must come to me. 1365 01:58:07,474 --> 01:58:10,034 Where did you get this? 1366 01:58:11,245 --> 01:58:14,703 The Mahdi asks you to come to his tent in peace. 1367 01:58:14,748 --> 01:58:18,047 A faluka awaits you at the ivory trader's dock. 1368 01:58:18,085 --> 01:58:23,955 I am his first Khalifa Abdullah, and I remain here. 1369 01:58:25,092 --> 01:58:27,083 I am your hostage. 1370 01:58:28,595 --> 01:58:31,564 You will not regard it as a discourtesy, I hope... 1371 01:58:31,598 --> 01:58:33,589 if I lock you in. 1372 01:58:49,616 --> 01:58:52,779 If I'm not back by dawn, you'll be shot. 1373 01:59:02,696 --> 01:59:05,597 Welcome, Gordon Pasha. 1374 01:59:05,632 --> 01:59:07,224 Come in peace. 1375 01:59:07,267 --> 01:59:10,259 How did this come to you? 1376 01:59:11,572 --> 01:59:14,871 It came to you with the greetings of your friend... 1377 01:59:14,908 --> 01:59:18,241 far down the river, Sheikh Ali lbrahim... 1378 01:59:18,278 --> 01:59:20,007 of the Manasir people. 1379 01:59:20,047 --> 01:59:22,709 Sheikh Ali lbrahim has been induced... 1380 01:59:22,749 --> 01:59:27,550 by my friend and great emir Mohammed al Khalia... 1381 01:59:27,588 --> 01:59:30,352 to acknowledge me as the Expected One... 1382 01:59:30,390 --> 01:59:32,483 the true Mahdi. 1383 01:59:34,494 --> 01:59:35,791 He sends you assurance... 1384 01:59:35,829 --> 01:59:38,821 that should you care to proceed down the Nile... 1385 01:59:38,866 --> 01:59:40,834 he will offer you safe passage. 1386 01:59:40,868 --> 01:59:42,301 You are my guest. 1387 01:59:42,336 --> 01:59:45,271 Why do you invite me here now? 1388 01:59:45,305 --> 01:59:49,241 Because the Prophet Mohammed, blessings be upon him... 1389 01:59:49,276 --> 01:59:51,574 has appeared to me in a vision... 1390 01:59:51,612 --> 01:59:56,914 and instructed me to attack Khartoum with fire and sword. 1391 01:59:56,950 --> 02:00:01,410 20,000 angels will proceed my men into battle. 1392 02:00:01,455 --> 02:00:05,118 And terror will afflict and subdue my enemies... 1393 02:00:05,158 --> 02:00:09,527 as far as Mecca and Baghdad and Constantinople... 1394 02:00:09,630 --> 02:00:13,031 for all will know what a truly great miracle... 1395 02:00:13,066 --> 02:00:15,193 has been done by my Lord Mohammed. 1396 02:00:17,304 --> 02:00:23,539 I should prefer, Gordon Pasha, that you leave Khartoum now. 1397 02:00:23,577 --> 02:00:26,273 You are not my enemy. 1398 02:00:26,313 --> 02:00:29,680 Why should your blood sweeten the Nile? 1399 02:00:31,251 --> 02:00:33,378 What you are saying is this-- 1400 02:00:33,420 --> 02:00:37,220 so long as I am in Khartoum you dread to attack... 1401 02:00:37,257 --> 02:00:40,124 for a British army is close, and you know it well. 1402 02:00:40,160 --> 02:00:43,129 A British army. 1403 02:00:48,602 --> 02:00:49,899 The message. 1404 02:00:49,937 --> 02:00:51,734 I sent the message. 1405 02:00:52,739 --> 02:00:55,401 There is no British army. 1406 02:00:55,442 --> 02:00:57,069 Your soldiers are in Egypt. 1407 02:00:57,110 --> 02:01:01,740 They play cards, drink the liquor, pursue women. 1408 02:01:01,782 --> 02:01:05,047 Why would you send me a false message? 1409 02:01:05,085 --> 02:01:09,112 It is sometimes wise, Gordon Pasha... 1410 02:01:09,156 --> 02:01:12,182 to provide a man with a few sunny hours... 1411 02:01:12,225 --> 02:01:16,628 of fraudulent hope so that when night comes... 1412 02:01:16,663 --> 02:01:19,188 he will have a more perfect inward vision... 1413 02:01:19,232 --> 02:01:21,894 of the truth of his hopelessness. 1414 02:01:27,574 --> 02:01:29,542 I sent the message. 1415 02:01:29,576 --> 02:01:32,704 There is no British army. 1416 02:01:32,746 --> 02:01:34,737 You are alone. 1417 02:01:35,749 --> 02:01:37,114 Quite alone. 1418 02:01:47,094 --> 02:01:48,561 If this is true... 1419 02:01:48,595 --> 02:01:51,564 then what difference can it make to you... 1420 02:01:51,598 --> 02:01:55,056 if one man leaves or stays? 1421 02:01:55,102 --> 02:01:58,037 It is important to me. 1422 02:01:58,071 --> 02:02:01,666 Please explain to me the importance. 1423 02:02:01,708 --> 02:02:03,676 Because I am a man of mercy! 1424 02:02:03,710 --> 02:02:05,575 And I tell you go! 1425 02:02:05,612 --> 02:02:08,775 Leave in safety. Now. 1426 02:02:10,117 --> 02:02:12,085 You are not a man of mercy... 1427 02:02:12,119 --> 02:02:16,579 for your visions have not revealed to you what mercy is... 1428 02:02:16,623 --> 02:02:19,114 and so why do you do this? 1429 02:02:19,159 --> 02:02:21,423 You are not my enemy. 1430 02:02:21,461 --> 02:02:24,555 But I am. 1431 02:02:24,598 --> 02:02:26,725 You should understand, Mohammed Ahmed... 1432 02:02:26,767 --> 02:02:30,294 we are so alike, you and I. 1433 02:02:32,305 --> 02:02:35,604 You would welcome death, wouldn't you... 1434 02:02:35,642 --> 02:02:38,110 if death could be the servant of your life? 1435 02:02:38,145 --> 02:02:40,010 Wouldn't you? 1436 02:02:43,050 --> 02:02:44,278 I, too. 1437 02:02:44,317 --> 02:02:47,616 If my life has a single point, it's this-- 1438 02:02:47,654 --> 02:02:50,748 I've learned to be unafraid of death... 1439 02:02:50,791 --> 02:02:53,589 but never to be unafraid of failure. 1440 02:02:53,627 --> 02:02:56,460 If by the act of surrendering my life... 1441 02:02:56,496 --> 02:02:59,158 I can bring down the world on your head... 1442 02:02:59,199 --> 02:03:01,667 then it's an arrangement I welcome. 1443 02:03:03,003 --> 02:03:04,971 Do you understand? 1444 02:03:05,005 --> 02:03:07,633 I'm sure you do. 1445 02:03:07,674 --> 02:03:11,508 If you, as a servant of your God... 1446 02:03:11,545 --> 02:03:14,070 must use 100,000 warriors to destroy me... 1447 02:03:14,114 --> 02:03:17,140 a solitary servant of my God... 1448 02:03:17,184 --> 02:03:21,416 then you whisper to me, Mohammed Ahmed... 1449 02:03:21,455 --> 02:03:25,084 who will be remembered from Khartoum-- 1450 02:03:25,125 --> 02:03:27,218 your God or mine? 1451 02:03:28,728 --> 02:03:35,759 But Gordon Pasha, why should you be remembered? 1452 02:03:35,802 --> 02:03:37,326 You are forgotten. 1453 02:03:38,338 --> 02:03:39,600 Already. 1454 02:03:42,642 --> 02:03:46,976 Is it possible you still do not believe me? 1455 02:03:54,154 --> 02:04:00,457 I do not believe any infidel, even you, Gordon Pasha... 1456 02:04:00,494 --> 02:04:05,090 can face a lonely death without terror. 1457 02:04:14,941 --> 02:04:18,274 Is it the Englishman whose name was Frank Power? 1458 02:04:28,688 --> 02:04:31,248 Is it the Frenchman whose name was Herbin? 1459 02:04:49,242 --> 02:04:51,472 Is it not your own ring? 1460 02:05:02,222 --> 02:05:04,156 Do you leave Khartoum? 1461 02:05:06,159 --> 02:05:08,627 I cannot leave Khartoum... 1462 02:05:08,662 --> 02:05:11,062 Mohammed Ahmed... 1463 02:05:11,097 --> 02:05:14,555 for I, too, perform miracles... 1464 02:05:14,601 --> 02:05:17,263 and you shall witness one. 1465 02:05:20,106 --> 02:05:26,306 While I may die of your miracle, you will surely die of mine. 1466 02:05:51,972 --> 02:05:55,373 Sir! The river! 1467 02:06:17,964 --> 02:06:19,158 So. 1468 02:06:20,600 --> 02:06:22,192 Here we are. 1469 02:06:31,611 --> 02:06:33,340 All right, then, gentlemen. 1470 02:07:26,633 --> 02:07:28,032 Fire! 1471 02:08:09,743 --> 02:08:11,233 Get back! 1472 02:08:34,667 --> 02:08:35,929 Fire one! 1473 02:11:12,892 --> 02:11:14,086 Well, Khaleel. 1474 02:12:47,687 --> 02:12:49,484 Take it away! 1475 02:12:51,157 --> 02:12:52,954 Where is Abdullah? 1476 02:12:54,661 --> 02:12:56,652 I forbade it. 1477 02:13:10,610 --> 02:13:13,909 The relief came two days late. 1478 02:13:13,946 --> 02:13:15,573 Two days! 1479 02:13:15,615 --> 02:13:19,574 And for fifteen years, the Sudanese paid the price... 1480 02:13:19,619 --> 02:13:24,420 with pestilence and famine, the British with shame and war. 1481 02:13:24,457 --> 02:13:28,757 Within months after Gordon died, the Mahdi died. 1482 02:13:28,795 --> 02:13:31,593 Why, we shall never know. 1483 02:13:31,631 --> 02:13:34,600 Gordon rests in his beloved Sudan. 1484 02:13:34,634 --> 02:13:38,934 We cannot tell how long his memory will live... 1485 02:13:38,971 --> 02:13:41,599 but there is this... 1486 02:13:41,641 --> 02:13:45,099 "A world with no room for the Gordons... 1487 02:13:45,144 --> 02:13:49,137 "is a world that will return to the sands." 1488 02:13:50,305 --> 02:13:56,364 Craving big poker? 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