Possibly so, although a more recent version was made in the '60s with Charlatan Heston as Chinese Gordon and Sir Laurence Olivier as The Mahdi.
Talk about role reversal.
In spite of a lavish production shown in Cinerama offering "you are there" realism as the horses come galloping oat you out of the screen, Khartoum dodged the bullet and received but one Academy Award nomination. My date and I saw it on a Friday night in a half-filled Cinerama Dome in LA.
The images of an uneven horseback battle at daybreak stick in my mind after all these years almost as much as those hideous close-ups of Richard Harris in Camelot, another unforgettable epic of the '60s.