Khartoum plot
"Where the Nile divides, the great Cinerama adventure begins!"
Sudan, 1881. Muslim leader Mahdi calls for a bloody uprising aimed at destroying the Egyptian soldiers, British officers and their Sudanese auxiliaries in a so-called holy war. British Prime Minister Gladstone, however, refuses to launch a military aid campaign. He only sends the wayward General Charles Gordon to Khartoum to evacuate the city. That fails miserably and this is the beginning of a siege that will last ten months. Gladstone still refuses any help and when Colonel Stewart tries to break through the blockades with a steamboat, it ends in a massacre.