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Miniatures Adventure => Colonial Adventures => Topic started by: Harry Faversham on 25 February 2015, 11:35:58 AM

Title: Omdurmann?
Post by: Harry Faversham on 25 February 2015, 11:35:58 AM

Which film is it that has the excellent footage of the lines of British Infantry and cannon destroying the charge of the Mahdi's believers? I thought it was Heston Charlton's Khartoum, so bought it, and it isn't. Now I'm leaning toward 'Storm Over the Nile'... anyone help?

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Title: Re: Omdurmann?
Post by: jamesmanto on 25 February 2015, 11:43:39 AM

The 1939 Korda production of The Four Feathers

it's the best version of that movie, re-uses battle footage from the silent production which used actual Mahdist veterans of the battle to recreate the charge.

Title: Re: Omdurmann?
Post by: Harry Faversham on 25 February 2015, 01:43:53 PM

Thanks James.

Title: Re: Omdurmann?
Post by: juergen c. olk on 26 February 2015, 01:05:12 AM

Also Young Winston has a beautiful scene of British and Egyptian guns putting the hurt on the Mahdists.Plus the cavalry charge by the Lancers at Omdurmann.

Title: Re: Omdurmann?
Post by: Vanvlak on 26 February 2015, 05:58:18 AM

And then there's a scene in an episode of Dad's Army 'The two and a half feathers' ......hope you include Corporal (Private back then) Jones amongst your troops  :D

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_and_a_Half_Feathers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_and_a_Half_Feathers)

Title: Re: Omdurmann?
Post by: Atheling on 26 February 2015, 06:04:46 AM

Once can dream but I'd love to see a modern version of the Battle of Omdurman on film..... as I say, it will probably never happen in any kind of detail.

Darrell.