Cast
- Charlton Heston as General Charles Gordon
- Laurence Olivier as the Mahdi
- Richard Johnson as Colonel Stewart
- Ralph Richardson as William Ewart Gladstone, British Prime Minister
- Alexander Knox as Sir Evelyn Baring, the British ruler of Egypt
- Johnny Sekka as Khaleel
- Nigel Green as General Wolseley
- Michael Hordern as Lord Granville, the British Foreign Secretary
- Peter Arne as Major Kitchener
- Hugh Williams as Lord Hartington
- Zia Mohyeddin as Zobeir Pasha
- Ralph Michael as Charles Duke
- Douglas Wilmer as Khalifa Abdullah
- Edward Underdown as William Hicks
- Alan Tilvern as Awaan
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