0:00:02 > 0:00:07RHYTHMIC DRUMMING
0:01:16 > 0:01:20In the 1880s, the Sudan and Central Africa
0:01:20 > 0:01:23suddenly burst into flames as Arab slavers
0:01:23 > 0:01:25and great bands of Muslim fanatics
0:01:25 > 0:01:27rallied behind the Mahdi -
0:01:27 > 0:01:32a mystical figure who proclaimed himself the reincarnation of the Prophet Mohammad.
0:01:32 > 0:01:34Their aim...
0:01:34 > 0:01:37to conquer the Sudan and stop General Gordon's attempt
0:01:37 > 0:01:41to stamp out the age-old trade in black gold - slaves.
0:01:41 > 0:01:44Khartoum became a city under siege.
0:01:44 > 0:01:47Across the Nile at Omdurman,
0:01:47 > 0:01:49countless thousands of natives were gathered,
0:01:49 > 0:01:52dooming a peace mission Gordon had undertaken for the Egyptian Khedive
0:01:52 > 0:01:54and the English Queen.
0:01:56 > 0:01:59HORN
0:01:59 > 0:02:02From Omdurman, the Mahdi's riders swept through the land,
0:02:02 > 0:02:06bringing sudden terror and death to a people who had thought themselves safe
0:02:06 > 0:02:10under the protection of the legendary English general.
0:02:10 > 0:02:13Darfur fell, then Bahr el Ghazal,
0:02:13 > 0:02:18and a dozen more places along the upper reaches of the once-peaceful Nile.
0:02:19 > 0:02:23An expedition was sent up by river as this seemed the quickest way
0:02:23 > 0:02:26to relieve Gordon and the beleaguered city of Khartoum.
0:02:31 > 0:02:34Thousands of men were conscripted by the British
0:02:34 > 0:02:38to tow the heavy gunboats up the Nile, past Berber.
0:02:39 > 0:02:42The natives pulled the steamers from the shore and from dhows,
0:02:42 > 0:02:45but the British command had miscalculated
0:02:45 > 0:02:48and the convoy of men and supplies was in trouble from the start.
0:02:48 > 0:02:53The natives, chanting in unison, strained on the tow ropes,
0:02:53 > 0:02:56but the boats made little progress.
0:02:56 > 0:02:59The swift current and the low level of the river -
0:02:59 > 0:03:03unexpected at that time of year - were the undoing of the expedition.
0:03:03 > 0:03:06MEN CHANT, WHIPS CRACK
0:03:13 > 0:03:15SHIP'S HORN BLARES
0:03:15 > 0:03:17MEN CHANT
0:03:19 > 0:03:22WHIPS CRACK
0:03:34 > 0:03:37Even the light Arab dhows found difficulty
0:03:37 > 0:03:40sailing against the swift-running Nile.
0:03:53 > 0:03:56The heavy steamers moved hardly at all.
0:03:56 > 0:03:59More men were recruited to pull on the ropes
0:03:59 > 0:04:03and their native overseers were generous in their use of the whip.
0:04:03 > 0:04:05Hundreds fell by the wayside and others were found
0:04:05 > 0:04:09to replace them, but their efforts were not to be rewarded.
0:04:09 > 0:04:14Finally, it was not possible for the British gunboats
0:04:14 > 0:04:16to be manoeuvred through the shallows or the rapids.
0:04:16 > 0:04:19As the reinforcements tried in vain to make their way upriver,
0:04:19 > 0:04:23Gordon sent a despairing message.
0:04:23 > 0:04:25"Now mark this", he said.
0:04:25 > 0:04:27"If the expeditionary force -
0:04:27 > 0:04:32"and I ask for no more than 200 men, does not come in ten days,
0:04:32 > 0:04:38"the town may fall and I have done my best for the honour of our country".
0:04:38 > 0:04:42Realising the English force would not reach Gordon in time,
0:04:42 > 0:04:47a second relief column tried to cross the treacherous desert to Khartoum.
0:04:47 > 0:04:50They left Korti and marched to Metemma,
0:04:50 > 0:04:52but their progress was slow,
0:04:52 > 0:04:55causing yet further delay in the relief of the besieged city.
0:04:55 > 0:04:57DRUM BEATS
0:05:12 > 0:05:15The news of the second British advance reached the Mahdi,
0:05:15 > 0:05:19and soon tribes from all of Sudan assembled
0:05:19 > 0:05:23and planned an overwhelming attack on the smaller enemy force.
0:05:30 > 0:05:33The Mahdi's followers were armed only with primitive spears,
0:05:33 > 0:05:35shields, and swords.
0:05:35 > 0:05:39But they had the tactical advantages of numbers and surprise.
0:05:54 > 0:05:57Before dawn, hundreds of the fiercest warriors
0:05:57 > 0:06:01slowly crept forward, surrounding the British encampment.
0:06:01 > 0:06:02They moved unseen and unheard,
0:06:02 > 0:06:05in the stillness of the desert night.
0:06:11 > 0:06:12The British were on their guard -
0:06:12 > 0:06:15they were now deep in enemy territory
0:06:15 > 0:06:19and they knew they could expect an attack, but they did not know
0:06:19 > 0:06:22the size of the enemy force which would be thrown against them.
0:06:26 > 0:06:29The only hope of the British was to make their way through
0:06:29 > 0:06:33the enemy lines unseen and reach Khartoum without a battle.
0:06:35 > 0:06:37By first light,
0:06:37 > 0:06:40the Mahdi's dervishes had encircled the British defensive square.
0:06:41 > 0:06:44Then, their blood-curdling war-cries
0:06:44 > 0:06:47signalled the beginning of the onslaught.
0:06:47 > 0:06:51SHOUTING AND GUNFIRE
0:08:01 > 0:08:02We seem to be a bit outnumbered.
0:08:04 > 0:08:06A wee bit.
0:08:29 > 0:08:31Uh!
0:08:32 > 0:08:35Get up! Warn Barash!
0:08:36 > 0:08:38I'm not leaving, Sir.
0:08:39 > 0:08:43Besides, I thought I was awaiting court martial.
0:08:43 > 0:08:45I'm ordering you to get out and warn Barash.
0:08:50 > 0:08:51Get out of here?
0:08:51 > 0:08:53How?
0:08:53 > 0:08:55You can get out of anywhere, Baker.
0:08:59 > 0:09:00Good luck, Sir.
0:09:04 > 0:09:06HE SHOUTS
0:09:06 > 0:09:07Ah!
0:09:27 > 0:09:29Ah!
0:09:33 > 0:09:35Ah!
0:09:45 > 0:09:47SHE SCREAMS
0:09:49 > 0:09:51Come on!
0:09:51 > 0:09:53Asua!
0:10:00 > 0:10:01This way!
0:11:02 > 0:11:04Over here!
0:11:06 > 0:11:09This isn't Noah's Ark, we don't need two of everything.
0:11:09 > 0:11:11Swim, son! That's it.
0:11:11 > 0:11:12Gotcha.
0:11:15 > 0:11:17Help - he's heavy.
0:11:17 > 0:11:19He's your catch, you pull him in yourself.
0:11:58 > 0:12:00MAN COUGHS
0:12:06 > 0:12:08Here, try sitting up.
0:12:11 > 0:12:13- Khartoum...- Yes, all right, mate.
0:12:13 > 0:12:15Yeah, we're making for Khartoum.
0:12:15 > 0:12:17If Khartoum's still there.
0:12:17 > 0:12:19(HE COUGHS) Relief column...
0:12:19 > 0:12:23Yes, yes. We know all about it. Now you, save your strength, man.
0:12:23 > 0:12:26Save your strength.
0:12:49 > 0:12:51What the devil do you think you're doing?
0:12:51 > 0:12:53Getting rid of some dead weight.
0:12:53 > 0:12:56- Very dead.- You'll do no such thing.
0:12:59 > 0:13:01Look, Miss... What's your name? Woodville!
0:13:01 > 0:13:05We're in the middle of a war, we're not punting on the Thames
0:13:05 > 0:13:07and we've got no Union Jacks to drape the bodies in, either.
0:13:07 > 0:13:11- Why can't we give him a decent burial?- Because I say he's going over the side, that's why.
0:13:11 > 0:13:15Even with your military experience, you must appreciate we've got to get
0:13:15 > 0:13:19as far from Barash as possible by daylight, right?
0:13:19 > 0:13:21What sort of a Christian are you?
0:13:21 > 0:13:24The kind of Christian that prefers staying alive.
0:13:24 > 0:13:26His weight can't make that much difference to our speed.
0:13:26 > 0:13:30No? Haven't your feet told you what's happening in the bottom of the boat?
0:13:30 > 0:13:34Some of the heathen bullets hit below the water line. Very unsporting.
0:13:34 > 0:13:36Oh, please.
0:13:38 > 0:13:41All right - if you want to keep the Major on board,
0:13:41 > 0:13:43we'd better start bailing - and quick.
0:13:43 > 0:13:48- What with?- Your pretty field boots, son - they'll do.
0:13:48 > 0:13:52- And you, too, Miss.- I don't happen to be wearing field boots.
0:13:52 > 0:13:54Well, have this, then.
0:13:54 > 0:13:56Oh!
0:13:56 > 0:13:59- Oh!- Come on, come on - start bailing!
0:14:00 > 0:14:02Start bailing, get on with it.
0:14:02 > 0:14:04Why not try and beach her now?
0:14:04 > 0:14:10Because it's night, because we can't see, because there's rocks and sand bars,
0:14:10 > 0:14:13because we'd lose the boat if not our lives, that's why not!
0:14:15 > 0:14:18Now, come on - bail, damn it, bail!
0:14:24 > 0:14:26That's right - well done, boy.
0:14:27 > 0:14:31- What's your name?- Asua, sir, and I'm not a boy.
0:14:33 > 0:14:35Are we going to sink?
0:14:36 > 0:14:37No, no.
0:14:38 > 0:14:40No, we're not going to sink.
0:14:41 > 0:14:43Here - come on. I'll do this.
0:14:47 > 0:14:49You lie down up here.
0:14:49 > 0:14:51Curl up.
0:14:51 > 0:14:53Go to sleep, hm?
0:14:54 > 0:14:56I promise you, we'll be all right.
0:15:02 > 0:15:04Go on, you go to sleep!
0:15:21 > 0:15:23All right.
0:15:23 > 0:15:24BANGS SIDE OF BOAT
0:15:24 > 0:15:26Up and out!
0:15:36 > 0:15:39It's not the Port of London but it's land, you can get ashore.
0:15:41 > 0:15:43Mr Murchison?
0:15:50 > 0:15:51SHE SCREAMS
0:15:55 > 0:15:57I'm sorry.
0:15:57 > 0:16:00Reminded me of the town drunk on a Saturday night.
0:16:00 > 0:16:04He always fell in the river, too.
0:16:04 > 0:16:06No!
0:16:16 > 0:16:20Come on lady, why not take it right off? You'll find it easier.
0:16:20 > 0:16:22Very gentlemanly of you to suggest it.
0:16:22 > 0:16:24That's me, every inch a gentleman.
0:16:26 > 0:16:29There you are, love, I told you we'd make it, didn't I?
0:16:29 > 0:16:31I'd not doubt you, sir.
0:16:31 > 0:16:34Al right, come on, first thing is to get the stores out of the boat.
0:16:34 > 0:16:36First thing is to give the major a decent burial.
0:16:36 > 0:16:39I don't think the major looks too impatient,
0:16:39 > 0:16:41our job is to keep the living alive.
0:16:41 > 0:16:44And you call yourself an officer and a gentleman?
0:16:44 > 0:16:49No, no I'm afraid the rank's not mine,
0:16:49 > 0:16:51just the first jacket I happened to pick up.
0:16:51 > 0:16:53Baker, Richard. Private,
0:16:53 > 0:16:56three times in Her Majesty Queen Victoria's army.
0:16:56 > 0:16:59Of which there's precious little left around here.
0:16:59 > 0:17:01I should have know it.
0:17:01 > 0:17:02Yes, I reckon you should.
0:17:02 > 0:17:06It's the uniform that makes the man, isn't it, Mr Murchison?
0:17:06 > 0:17:09- Well, come on, let's get... - The major.
0:17:11 > 0:17:14As you wish, Miss Woodville.
0:17:33 > 0:17:37He died far from home, far from family,
0:17:37 > 0:17:40- in violence and bloodshed...- Please!
0:17:40 > 0:17:45- and we commend his soul to your keeping...- Oh!
0:17:45 > 0:17:50in the knowledge that whatever happens to each of us is your will.
0:18:04 > 0:18:06Murchison!
0:18:06 > 0:18:08Murchison! Help.
0:18:11 > 0:18:13Murchison! Over here, come on!
0:18:32 > 0:18:34Well, there you are, Miss Woodville,
0:18:34 > 0:18:37that's what comes of mis-timed piety.
0:18:37 > 0:18:39We've lost the boat and half the stores.
0:18:39 > 0:18:41We wouldn't have lost the boat
0:18:41 > 0:18:43if you'd beached it properly, private Baker.
0:18:43 > 0:18:46Lady, I'm a soldier, or was, not Admiral Nelson.
0:18:46 > 0:18:50Well, you've got the rifle, that's the most important thing, isn't it?
0:18:50 > 0:18:54Yeah, use it for a walking stick, the ammunition got away from us.
0:18:54 > 0:18:57How many bullets in that little pouch of yours, Mr Murchison?
0:18:57 > 0:19:00About two dozen.
0:19:00 > 0:19:04Oh, then we've got one pistol and two dozen bullets to last us
0:19:04 > 0:19:05while we 're waiting.
0:19:05 > 0:19:09You're not thinking of staying here, for goodness sake, why?
0:19:09 > 0:19:11Because I wouldn't like to see
0:19:11 > 0:19:14the vultures picking those ladylike bones.
0:19:14 > 0:19:16Don't try and frighten me, private Baker,
0:19:16 > 0:19:18and please don't frighten Asua,
0:19:18 > 0:19:21Her father was the Emir of Barash and his dying wish was that
0:19:21 > 0:19:25I should take her to General Gordon in Khartoum, and as her tutor,
0:19:25 > 0:19:27I intend to see his last wishes are carried out.
0:19:27 > 0:19:30That's why I've dressed her like an ordinary native child.
0:19:30 > 0:19:33Miss Woodville, how long have you been in Africa?
0:19:33 > 0:19:34Almost two months.
0:19:34 > 0:19:38Then let me give you a little lesson geography.
0:19:38 > 0:19:41Look,
0:19:41 > 0:19:43here is the Nile,
0:19:43 > 0:19:47here is Khartoum, here is Barash, where we started, Bargasil, Darfur,
0:19:47 > 0:19:51The little villages, I'd say we're about there.
0:19:51 > 0:19:55One to Khartoum by water that's 100 miles, it's a little far to swim.
0:19:55 > 0:19:57Then we'll go overland.
0:19:57 > 0:20:01Miss Woodville, I'm as keen to get to Khartoum as you are,
0:20:01 > 0:20:05perhaps more so, but which ever way we go by land we'll hit swamps,
0:20:05 > 0:20:08full of local gentry like...him.
0:20:11 > 0:20:14Not to mention the Mahdi's raiders, Arab slavers
0:20:14 > 0:20:18and hostile natives who've never read the ten commandments,
0:20:18 > 0:20:21and don't know about, "thou shalt not kill".
0:20:21 > 0:20:23There must be friendly natives as well?
0:20:23 > 0:20:26- There were. - With missionaries among them?
0:20:26 > 0:20:29Those who've not been put in the pot for their pains.
0:20:29 > 0:20:33Barash wasn't the only town attacked in the Sudan, when the news
0:20:33 > 0:20:37of this reaches Khartoum, they'll be a gunboat on the river here.
0:20:37 > 0:20:40Sent to pick up survivors, so we're going to stay right here.
0:20:40 > 0:20:43Let Khartoum come to us.
0:20:44 > 0:20:46So.
0:20:46 > 0:20:50You make yourself really nice and at home
0:20:50 > 0:20:53and I'll make sure our paradise has no devils in it.
0:20:56 > 0:20:59And if I meet any missionaries unpotted,
0:20:59 > 0:21:01I'll let you know.
0:21:04 > 0:21:06Do you think he's right?
0:21:06 > 0:21:09Yes, although I dislike his manner just as much as you do.
0:21:12 > 0:21:16Asua, get my things.
0:21:40 > 0:21:44There you are, it's all ours. It's not Mayfair, but its home.
0:21:46 > 0:21:48What's all this packing in aid of?
0:21:48 > 0:21:52Well, you can stay and play Robinson Crusoe if you want,
0:21:52 > 0:21:54But I'm leaving. Asua!
0:21:54 > 0:21:55Where are you off to, may I ask?
0:21:55 > 0:21:59To civilisation, which is more than I've found here.
0:22:01 > 0:22:05Mr Murchison, you'd better trot along with them.
0:22:05 > 0:22:07Miss Woodville!
0:22:07 > 0:22:09And bring them back alive!
0:22:11 > 0:22:14Miss Woodville!
0:22:15 > 0:22:19Miss Woodville, I'll take this.
0:22:41 > 0:22:43Oh!
0:22:46 > 0:22:50They're quite harmless, now, you watch.
0:23:00 > 0:23:02- Oh, it's sweet.- Ah, look!
0:23:10 > 0:23:12GUNFIRE
0:23:32 > 0:23:35GROWLING
0:23:58 > 0:24:01- We met a lion!- You didn't!- Yes!
0:24:01 > 0:24:05Shh! Hello, welcome back.
0:24:05 > 0:24:09SO you all decided to play Robinson Crusoe.
0:24:09 > 0:24:13I heard the artillery firing, did you have a nice little stroll?
0:24:15 > 0:24:17Very nice, thank you.
0:24:17 > 0:24:18Roar!
0:24:20 > 0:24:23You, you...
0:24:27 > 0:24:30Come on, hurry, hurry.
0:24:35 > 0:24:38Here it comes, everything in, quick!
0:24:46 > 0:24:48Come on, all of you! Come on!
0:24:50 > 0:24:54Come one in, home from home complete with running water, all of it cold.
0:24:54 > 0:24:57I'm very grateful, don't think I'm not, but you don't think
0:24:57 > 0:24:59you're sleeping in here with us?
0:24:59 > 0:25:02Woman, this is not time for conventions, I'm dammed if I'm going
0:25:02 > 0:25:05- to sleep outside in the rain. - I'm dammed if you're coming in here!
0:25:06 > 0:25:10- Get out!- What are you doing? Don't do that!
0:25:18 > 0:25:23And that's about enough from you too, young lady.
0:25:34 > 0:25:36She was right, you know, old chap.
0:25:39 > 0:25:42I only wanted to sleep dry in the same hut, I didn't say bed.
0:26:23 > 0:26:27ANIMAL CALLS
0:26:47 > 0:26:51LION GROWLS
0:26:55 > 0:26:58SCREAMING
0:27:00 > 0:27:02What it What's the matter, Miss Woodville?
0:27:02 > 0:27:04Let me go!
0:27:04 > 0:27:06What are you doing?
0:27:06 > 0:27:11Oh, Mr Baker, I'm sorry, I was dreaming,
0:27:11 > 0:27:13I thought we were back in Barash and I was frightened.
0:27:13 > 0:27:18You don't need to apologise, we all get frightened,
0:27:18 > 0:27:23right now I'm frightened this hut's coming down... get out!
0:27:31 > 0:27:34You see?
0:27:38 > 0:27:43Just a minute, never let a lady go out without her dress.
0:27:43 > 0:27:45THUNDER
0:27:45 > 0:27:48- Go on.- Quick, Asua, quick.
0:27:48 > 0:27:50Run, sweetheart, run.
0:27:58 > 0:28:00Hurry, Mr Baker!
0:28:06 > 0:28:09- He's asleep.- If he's not drowned.
0:28:09 > 0:28:12It's wetter in here than it was outside.
0:28:12 > 0:28:14Allow me.
0:28:16 > 0:28:17Thank you.
0:28:17 > 0:28:19All part of the company service.
0:28:19 > 0:28:22THUNDER
0:28:24 > 0:28:28You're in the rain, Mr Baker.
0:28:28 > 0:28:30So I am.
0:28:41 > 0:28:46Well, we finally made it under one roof, old chap.
0:28:59 > 0:29:01What was the name of the document
0:29:01 > 0:29:04that first took absolute power away from the English king?
0:29:04 > 0:29:07- The Magna Carta.- When was it signed?
0:29:07 > 0:29:08- 1215.- Who signed it?
0:29:09 > 0:29:11The Caliph John.
0:29:11 > 0:29:12King John.
0:29:12 > 0:29:14King John.
0:29:14 > 0:29:17And where was it signed?
0:29:17 > 0:29:20Er...
0:29:23 > 0:29:24Miss Woodville!
0:29:24 > 0:29:26They're calling us!
0:29:33 > 0:29:36Where's Sir Galahad?
0:29:36 > 0:29:39He's gone off to catch the dinner.
0:29:39 > 0:29:42Fish again, I suppose.
0:29:42 > 0:29:44Well, I seem to remember you can be quite strong
0:29:44 > 0:29:47when you want to be, will you give me a hand?
0:29:47 > 0:29:50I would if I knew what you are trying to do.
0:29:50 > 0:29:53I'm trying to get us out of here.
0:29:53 > 0:29:55By completely destroying the boat?
0:29:55 > 0:29:58Look,
0:29:58 > 0:30:01matches, making fire,
0:30:01 > 0:30:06timbers, full of tar, tar make black smoke, gunboat sees black smoke,
0:30:06 > 0:30:07we all rescued, me velly clever!
0:30:07 > 0:30:10I wish I could be sure.
0:30:10 > 0:30:12So do I.
0:30:12 > 0:30:17Come on, let's give it a chance, now you put those pretty
0:30:17 > 0:30:21little hands that's right and pull like it was me you got hold of.
0:30:22 > 0:30:27All right, pull! Go on, pull!
0:30:27 > 0:30:31Harder,
0:30:31 > 0:30:36put your back in it!
0:30:36 > 0:30:41Your back, I said.
0:30:48 > 0:30:50SCREAMS
0:30:54 > 0:30:58- Are you all right?- Yes.- But you could have been hurt.- No, I'm fine.
0:30:58 > 0:31:01What kind of work is this to ask a lady to do it?
0:31:01 > 0:31:03I'm not hurt, truly. Just brush me down.
0:31:03 > 0:31:05If you say so.
0:31:07 > 0:31:13Mr Murchison could you tear yourself away just for a second?
0:31:13 > 0:31:17Asua, Come along, we haven't finished our lessons yet.
0:31:17 > 0:31:19Could we not wait a little longer?
0:31:19 > 0:31:22Till Murchison sahib goes falling down?
0:31:22 > 0:31:24Go on!
0:32:15 > 0:32:18Might as well chuck stones at it.
0:32:18 > 0:32:21Suppose that means fish again for dinner.
0:32:54 > 0:32:56'Asua!'
0:32:56 > 0:32:59Oh, no!
0:33:06 > 0:33:08Asua!
0:33:08 > 0:33:12- What is it?- Mr Baker, have you seen Asua, we can't find her anywhere!
0:33:12 > 0:33:14- We've looked everywhere.- Asua!
0:33:21 > 0:33:23Asua.
0:33:26 > 0:33:28Yes, Mr Baker, sir?
0:33:28 > 0:33:32- Use the pistol.- Useless, the bullets would just bounce off.
0:33:32 > 0:33:36Asua, Don't be afraid, I'm close behind you.
0:33:36 > 0:33:41Will you try and do what I tell you?
0:33:41 > 0:33:43- I will try, sir.- Good.
0:33:43 > 0:33:47Now just start walking backwards towards me.
0:33:53 > 0:33:57Don't look round, keep going backwards.
0:34:06 > 0:34:09Take your time. Come on, well done.
0:34:11 > 0:34:17There's a big tree only a few more steps behind you.
0:34:19 > 0:34:21Keep going...
0:34:30 > 0:34:33Are you all right?
0:34:33 > 0:34:36Thank you, Mr Baker, sir.
0:34:39 > 0:34:43The next time, pick a playmate your own size, huh?
0:34:43 > 0:34:44Yes, sir.
0:35:04 > 0:35:08Your paradise is a hell, private Baker, Asua, might have been killed.
0:35:08 > 0:35:10Asua is your responsibility.
0:35:10 > 0:35:15I am tired sitting here waiting for your mythical gunboat.
0:35:15 > 0:35:18Yes, I'm disappointed in General Gordon myself. I'd have thought he'd
0:35:18 > 0:35:22- sent his private yacht for us now. - How many more of us have to be gored
0:35:22 > 0:35:25or trampled on before you'll admit you made a mistake?
0:35:25 > 0:35:28Take what's left of the stores and traipse off where ever you want.
0:35:28 > 0:35:32I'm sick to death of being nursemaid to a nanny and two children.
0:35:32 > 0:35:37Private Baker, you will apologise to Miss Woodville for that last remark.
0:35:43 > 0:35:45And to me.
0:35:47 > 0:35:51Would you call off your protector here, it's way past his bedtime?
0:35:51 > 0:35:54You've a horrid tongue, Private Baker.
0:35:54 > 0:35:57Lord knows I need it with the likes of you.
0:35:57 > 0:36:01Private Baker, I ordered you to apologise.
0:36:01 > 0:36:03Look, we're tired, worried, right?
0:36:03 > 0:36:05But that's not good enough!
0:36:10 > 0:36:14I said, apologise!
0:36:20 > 0:36:23And we're gong to stay right here, like it or not!
0:36:23 > 0:36:25Very brave of you, Private Baker,
0:36:25 > 0:36:29to attack someone half your size, why don't you throw me in as well?
0:36:29 > 0:36:32When God made women, why didn't he give them common sense?
0:36:32 > 0:36:38As well as the more obvious attributes.
0:36:53 > 0:36:55It's a boat! It's a boat!
0:36:55 > 0:36:58Miss Woodville, Miss Woodville!
0:36:58 > 0:37:00On the river, it's a boat! Quick!
0:37:02 > 0:37:07- It's a boat!- Over here, over here, over here, over here! It's a boat!
0:37:07 > 0:37:09Over here! Here!
0:37:23 > 0:37:27Mr Baker, your boat has come!
0:37:27 > 0:37:31Is it? Does that look like a gunboat?
0:37:31 > 0:37:33What are you doing? It's a boat.
0:37:33 > 0:37:37It's an Arab slaver and she's seen us, thanks to you.
0:37:37 > 0:37:40Come on, we're getting out of here quick!
0:37:40 > 0:37:41Come on, give me your hand, Run!
0:37:46 > 0:37:50Hurry, go on, run, grab your things, get that tinned stuff, go on.
0:37:54 > 0:37:55Never mind that.
0:37:59 > 0:38:01Smile, Miss Woodville, Come on,
0:38:01 > 0:38:04we're going to find some adventures the hard way, come on!
0:38:04 > 0:38:06Run, all of you.
0:38:21 > 0:38:23How much longer?
0:38:23 > 0:38:26I don't know. Ask him.
0:38:42 > 0:38:45THEY CONVERSE IN ARABIC
0:39:16 > 0:39:19All right, let's rest. Come on.
0:39:26 > 0:39:29Look, elephants!
0:39:29 > 0:39:32Oh, yes, they're lovely!
0:39:33 > 0:39:35And the monkeys!
0:39:37 > 0:39:41- It's the biggest zoo in the world. - You know what they're saying?
0:39:41 > 0:39:43What a big zoo to keep poor humans in.
0:39:57 > 0:39:59I wish they'd come closer.
0:40:01 > 0:40:04If we hide down here and are very quiet perhaps the monkeys
0:40:04 > 0:40:06will come down from the trees.
0:41:35 > 0:41:37THEY SPEAK ARABIC
0:41:45 > 0:41:51You can take your hand OFF my waist now, Mr Baker.
0:42:12 > 0:42:14How do you manage to do it?
0:42:14 > 0:42:16Do what?
0:42:16 > 0:42:19Collect so many admirers.
0:43:12 > 0:43:14They're putting on a show for us!
0:43:14 > 0:43:16Just like a circus!
0:43:16 > 0:43:18Yeah, they can sing, too!
0:43:19 > 0:43:21- They can?- Oh, yes!
0:43:21 > 0:43:23Mind you, they have terrible voices.
0:43:25 > 0:43:27You've offended them!
0:43:29 > 0:43:32I always thought hippopotami were thick-skinned.
0:43:32 > 0:43:33He LAUGHS
0:43:33 > 0:43:36Oh-oh! Joke over.
0:43:38 > 0:43:40Come on, on your feet! On we go.
0:43:48 > 0:43:51Think you can make it up those rocks?
0:43:55 > 0:43:57Come on, then, Miss Woodville.
0:43:57 > 0:43:58Hitch up those skirts.
0:44:06 > 0:44:09You think the Arabs are still behind us, don't you?
0:44:09 > 0:44:11Come on, climb.
0:44:27 > 0:44:31Why should they bother with a small party like us?
0:44:31 > 0:44:32Small,
0:44:32 > 0:44:34but valuable, Miss Woodville.
0:44:37 > 0:44:42What could we have that could be possibly of any value to them?
0:44:42 > 0:44:43Look,...
0:44:44 > 0:44:48Do you know the market price of a white woman in these parts?
0:44:48 > 0:44:50A woman with fair hair?
0:44:52 > 0:44:53I'm sorry.
0:44:53 > 0:44:56I shouldn't have said that. I apologise.
0:44:56 > 0:44:58First time you've done THAT.
0:44:58 > 0:45:00- What?- Apologise.
0:45:00 > 0:45:04And the first time you've nothing to apologise for.
0:45:04 > 0:45:06You're an odd one, aren't you?
0:45:06 > 0:45:09I've met a few women in my time.
0:45:09 > 0:45:12But you confound me.
0:45:12 > 0:45:14You really do.
0:45:15 > 0:45:16Come on.
0:45:21 > 0:45:23Oh!
0:45:25 > 0:45:28Right. Up we go!
0:45:37 > 0:45:38SHE SCREAMS
0:45:56 > 0:45:58They're gone!
0:46:38 > 0:46:40Come on, get a fire going!
0:46:50 > 0:46:52It's my fault. It's my fault!
0:46:52 > 0:46:54Come on, go and get a blanket.
0:46:54 > 0:46:55SHE SOBS
0:46:59 > 0:47:01Oh, God!
0:47:01 > 0:47:04I thought I had hold of her hand, but I let it slip.
0:47:04 > 0:47:07My fault!
0:47:07 > 0:47:09Don't blame yourself. It was an accident.
0:47:09 > 0:47:13Here. Can YOU do this? It's my arm, it got...
0:47:13 > 0:47:16I tried to catch her, but I wasn't quick enough!
0:47:16 > 0:47:19Oh, this is useless!
0:47:19 > 0:47:22Oh, God, please don't let her die!
0:47:22 > 0:47:25Please, please, please don't let her die.
0:47:25 > 0:47:26Please, God.
0:47:26 > 0:47:29You keep praying. Keep pumping, too.
0:47:32 > 0:47:34Please, God, please!
0:47:34 > 0:47:36Please. Please, God!
0:47:36 > 0:47:37Here, let me.
0:48:02 > 0:48:04Look! Look!
0:48:07 > 0:48:09She's alive! She's breathing!
0:48:09 > 0:48:10Look, look, look!
0:48:10 > 0:48:13- Murchison!- Murchison!
0:48:13 > 0:48:15Murchison!
0:48:58 > 0:49:00The blame isn't yours.
0:49:00 > 0:49:02It was MY fault.
0:49:07 > 0:49:10I hate to see you like this..
0:49:11 > 0:49:12..because...
0:49:14 > 0:49:16..I love you.
0:49:19 > 0:49:21Please don't cry.
0:49:22 > 0:49:25I think you're the most wonderful,
0:49:25 > 0:49:28most beautiful woman I've ever met.
0:49:28 > 0:49:30And with all my heart,
0:49:30 > 0:49:32I love you.
0:49:32 > 0:49:34You mustn't, Mr Murchison.
0:49:34 > 0:49:38You wouldn't, if you knew all about me.
0:49:39 > 0:49:40Thank you.
0:49:42 > 0:49:44No, please...
0:49:45 > 0:49:47Don't go.
0:49:56 > 0:49:59Am I to die, Mr Baker, sir?
0:50:02 > 0:50:03What?
0:50:03 > 0:50:07And leave me to the tender mercies of Miss Woodville?
0:50:07 > 0:50:09She might ask me when Magna Carta was signed.
0:50:09 > 0:50:14And I don't know the answer to that, either.
0:50:14 > 0:50:16It hurts very much, sir.
0:51:02 > 0:51:05Mr Murchison?
0:51:05 > 0:51:06Mr Murchison?!
0:51:09 > 0:51:10Are you awake?
0:51:12 > 0:51:13Yes.
0:51:14 > 0:51:16Don't look now, but we have visitors.
0:51:18 > 0:51:22You get together what you can of the gear.
0:51:22 > 0:51:24I'll go calling on Miss Woodville.
0:51:36 > 0:51:39Miss Woodville. It's all right. Don't be alarmed.
0:51:39 > 0:51:42There's a party of natives
0:51:42 > 0:51:43on the cliff, up above us.
0:51:43 > 0:51:46I'm sure it'll be all right,
0:51:46 > 0:51:48but we're just going to...
0:51:48 > 0:51:49get out.
0:51:49 > 0:51:51Just get your things together.
0:51:51 > 0:51:53Follow me. Keep close behind me, now.
0:52:04 > 0:52:06Keep walking.
0:52:06 > 0:52:08Don't look up, whatever happens.
0:52:12 > 0:52:14Obviously,
0:52:14 > 0:52:15a bit out of practice.
0:52:18 > 0:52:20Now, listen you! Emshi!
0:52:23 > 0:52:25HE SPEAK SWAHILI
0:52:25 > 0:52:27You go play somewhere else.
0:52:27 > 0:52:28Right?
0:52:28 > 0:52:31Come on. Let's keep going.
0:52:31 > 0:52:33We'll all get killed, Mr Baker!
0:52:33 > 0:52:35Not unless their aim improves.
0:52:36 > 0:52:37WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!
0:52:37 > 0:52:39This man,
0:52:39 > 0:52:41son of General Gordon!
0:52:41 > 0:52:44HE SPEAKS SWAHILI
0:52:44 > 0:52:45General Gordon.
0:52:45 > 0:52:47And we all friends.
0:52:47 > 0:52:48What's the word?
0:52:49 > 0:52:52R-r-r-rafiqi.
0:52:52 > 0:52:54Rafiqi! Friends! Right?!
0:52:54 > 0:52:57Come on. On we go.
0:52:59 > 0:53:02I suspect you were using the wrong word, Mr Baker.
0:53:02 > 0:53:05Don't any of you heathens speak English?!
0:53:07 > 0:53:09I speak.
0:53:11 > 0:53:12English,
0:53:12 > 0:53:14Arabic,
0:53:14 > 0:53:15and Swahili.
0:53:24 > 0:53:26I am Kimrasi.
0:53:26 > 0:53:28Brother to the king of the Bogoro.
0:53:28 > 0:53:30Good.
0:53:30 > 0:53:33Well, you call up your friends up there,
0:53:33 > 0:53:35before this little game gets out of hand.
0:53:35 > 0:53:37Gun, please.
0:53:38 > 0:53:40First, we talk.
0:53:40 > 0:53:41Gun?!
0:53:46 > 0:53:47Yes. Of course.
0:53:47 > 0:53:49Careful, careful.
0:53:51 > 0:53:52Go on, run!
0:53:52 > 0:53:54Run, Murchison!
0:54:13 > 0:54:14Gun, quick.
0:54:16 > 0:54:18All right. Since you put it so nicely(!)
0:54:22 > 0:54:23We come in peace.
0:54:24 > 0:54:26With gun in hand?
0:54:28 > 0:54:29We will pay for your help!
0:54:33 > 0:54:36Well?
0:54:36 > 0:54:39I was a slave to the Arabs.
0:54:39 > 0:54:41Five years.
0:54:41 > 0:54:44Before I escaped, the English used to deal with my master.
0:54:44 > 0:54:47THEY did not offer to help ME.
0:54:55 > 0:54:56The little one is not English.
0:55:08 > 0:55:10Take your hands off her!
0:55:20 > 0:55:22Follow me!
0:55:29 > 0:55:30What are they going to do?
0:55:30 > 0:55:33You want to use civilisation when you've found it.
0:55:33 > 0:55:35Even speaking the Queen's English.
0:55:44 > 0:55:45DRUMMING AND CHANTING
0:56:35 > 0:56:38They don't seem like the others.
0:56:38 > 0:56:40Ceremonial dancers. Dressed to kill.
0:56:59 > 0:57:01The little one not English needs a doctor.
0:57:01 > 0:57:03Dr Mganga.
0:57:13 > 0:57:15Well, they...
0:57:16 > 0:57:20They must be peaceful, if they've got missionary doctors.
0:57:20 > 0:57:22Do you know what 'Mganga' means in Swahili?
0:57:24 > 0:57:26Let's try and get through here.
0:57:30 > 0:57:32Excuse me.
0:57:32 > 0:57:33Excuse me, please.
0:57:36 > 0:57:37Mganga!
0:57:37 > 0:57:38Inside.
0:57:42 > 0:57:44SHE SCREAMS
0:57:44 > 0:57:46ARABIC MUSIC
0:57:46 > 0:57:47NO! NO!
0:57:47 > 0:57:49Don't touch her!
0:57:49 > 0:57:52We've no choice!
0:57:52 > 0:57:54Unless something's done, she'll die.
0:57:54 > 0:57:57This child...If anything happens to her...
0:57:57 > 0:57:59We, too, have children.
0:58:00 > 0:58:02Now we must leave here.
0:58:02 > 0:58:04Come on, do not stop.
0:58:10 > 0:58:11DRUMMING AND CHANTING
0:58:56 > 0:59:01Kimrisi, I would like to present the king with these binoculars.
0:59:19 > 0:59:22And, certainly, when we get to Khartoum, with his help,
0:59:22 > 0:59:24General Gordon will load him with many more gifts.
0:59:24 > 0:59:26This is Gordon Pasha's favourite son.
0:59:26 > 0:59:28And if anything happens to us,
0:59:28 > 0:59:32Gordon Pasha will destroy this village, and your whole tribe.
0:59:32 > 0:59:35Please, TELL him that.
0:59:44 > 0:59:48THEY SPEAK SWAHILI
0:59:56 > 0:59:57Gordon Pasha is starving.
0:59:57 > 1:00:00Khartoum will be crushed by the Mahdis.
1:00:00 > 1:00:03Everywhere the Mahdi kills, the drums say so.
1:00:03 > 1:00:06The drums lie! General Gordon will scatter his enemies
1:00:06 > 1:00:09like the lion scatters the jackals!
1:00:10 > 1:00:13HE SPEAKS SWAHILI
1:00:21 > 1:00:26The king says, "If this is true, why do you come alone,
1:00:26 > 1:00:28"in rags, to our country?"
1:00:28 > 1:00:30"From whom do you run?"
1:00:34 > 1:00:35This is my wife.
1:00:35 > 1:00:36Mr Baker, you're taking...
1:00:36 > 1:00:38Be quiet! SHUT UP!
1:00:40 > 1:00:43HE WHISPERS
1:00:45 > 1:00:46HE SPEAKS SWAHILI
1:00:58 > 1:00:59Kimrasi.
1:00:59 > 1:01:02Was the king convinced about us?
1:01:02 > 1:01:04I told him she must be your wife,
1:01:04 > 1:01:06to behave with so much anger.
1:01:06 > 1:01:09Yes, but will he help us?
1:01:09 > 1:01:11Gondoko believe that people are good,
1:01:11 > 1:01:14because they are not strong enough to be bad.
1:01:14 > 1:01:16Unless what you say is true,
1:01:17 > 1:01:20Arab strong, and Gordon is only good.
1:01:20 > 1:01:24But you know what the Arabs are like. They took you as a slave.
1:01:24 > 1:01:27Arabs are like great sickness.
1:01:27 > 1:01:29Some, it takes.
1:01:29 > 1:01:31Others, it leaves.
1:01:31 > 1:01:33Always, it has been so.
1:01:37 > 1:01:40Will you go in, please?
1:01:40 > 1:01:41Go ahead!
1:01:41 > 1:01:44- I'm not carrying you over the threshold.- Aw!
1:01:48 > 1:01:51A man may have many wives.
1:01:51 > 1:01:52A wife, only one man.
1:01:52 > 1:01:54You sleep over here.
1:01:56 > 1:01:59How DARE you let them think we were married!
1:01:59 > 1:02:02And then slapped me, as though we were!
1:02:02 > 1:02:05Miss Woodville, it's a question of whose harem you prefer.
1:02:05 > 1:02:08Mine, or King Gondoko's?
1:02:08 > 1:02:11- I'm sure I can still soon fix them. - Oh, no, Mr Baker!
1:02:11 > 1:02:15I'm sure this time you've made the RIGHT decision.
1:02:17 > 1:02:18Oh!
1:02:22 > 1:02:24DRUMMING
1:02:41 > 1:02:43Are they going on all night?
1:02:48 > 1:02:49Apparently.
1:03:07 > 1:03:09Well...
1:03:09 > 1:03:11We're still alive!
1:03:15 > 1:03:19Only keeping up the marital appearances.
1:03:19 > 1:03:20Well, please don't.
1:03:23 > 1:03:25Friendly little thing, aren't you(?)
1:03:27 > 1:03:29I'd say you're the most bad-tempered,
1:03:29 > 1:03:31cantankerous,
1:03:31 > 1:03:33obstinate...
1:03:35 > 1:03:37..marvellous woman I've EVER met.
1:03:41 > 1:03:44I think I must be falling in love with you.
1:03:46 > 1:03:50Well, please don't. I...
1:03:50 > 1:03:51I don't deserve it.
1:03:52 > 1:03:53Deserve?
1:03:55 > 1:03:57HE LAUGHS What's that got to do with it?
1:03:57 > 1:04:01- I- lied to you when I said I'd been in Africa for two months.
1:04:01 > 1:04:03I guessed that.
1:04:03 > 1:04:06Two weeks, more like, the way you went blundering off into the bush.
1:04:06 > 1:04:08More like two years.
1:04:11 > 1:04:13Most of it was misery.
1:04:13 > 1:04:16A father who called himself an archaeologist.
1:04:16 > 1:04:18The only digging he did was in Cairo bars.
1:04:20 > 1:04:22When he died, he left me without a penny.
1:04:22 > 1:04:24You don't owe me an explanation.
1:04:24 > 1:04:27I do.
1:04:30 > 1:04:32When Asua's mother died,
1:04:32 > 1:04:36her father was looking for someone to...
1:04:36 > 1:04:37to be with him.
1:04:40 > 1:04:44So, you see, I'm not quite the innocent governess you imagined.
1:04:44 > 1:04:45Did you love him?
1:04:48 > 1:04:51He was good to me, and I loved Asua.
1:04:51 > 1:04:54Well, then, there's nothing to regret but his death, is there?
1:04:59 > 1:05:02Oh, I don't exactly wear a halo myself, you know.
1:05:04 > 1:05:07I'm Private Baker, all right.
1:05:07 > 1:05:11Three times busted sergeant, like I said.
1:05:11 > 1:05:13Once busted, you get prison.
1:05:13 > 1:05:16Like I didn't say.
1:05:16 > 1:05:20Oh, it's a great place, the Army.
1:05:20 > 1:05:21Lose yourself,
1:05:23 > 1:05:24keep out of trouble.
1:05:45 > 1:05:47Baker! Miss Woodsville.
1:05:47 > 1:05:49It's Asua, come quickly.
1:05:49 > 1:05:50- What?- Asua...
1:05:52 > 1:05:53Asua!
1:05:53 > 1:05:54Miss Woodville!
1:05:54 > 1:05:57Oh, Asua.
1:05:57 > 1:05:59Oh!
1:05:59 > 1:06:00I'm better now.
1:06:00 > 1:06:04I can't believe it... by a witch doctor!
1:06:04 > 1:06:05Well, why not?
1:06:05 > 1:06:07We have them in London too.
1:06:07 > 1:06:09Only they wear striped trousers.
1:06:09 > 1:06:11Where are we, Mr Baker, sir?
1:06:11 > 1:06:14I'd say right in the consulting room, but we're going to get you out.
1:06:14 > 1:06:18Come on, Murchison, let's take a look around. Now, you get better and get strong!
1:06:18 > 1:06:20Or you'll have some more of the treatment, eh?
1:06:20 > 1:06:22Yes.
1:06:25 > 1:06:28THEY ARGUE IN SWAHILI
1:06:39 > 1:06:42HUBBUB OF ARGUMENT
1:06:55 > 1:06:56Morning.
1:06:56 > 1:06:58Nice day.
1:06:59 > 1:07:02Don't let us interrupt the House of Commons.
1:07:11 > 1:07:13SPEAKS SWAHILI
1:07:19 > 1:07:21What about that wall there, eh?
1:07:21 > 1:07:24Do you think we'll make it?
1:07:24 > 1:07:27It's a bit high, hey?
1:07:33 > 1:07:35You always have this many guards?
1:07:35 > 1:07:39Only when there is valuable property to protect.
1:07:40 > 1:07:43HE SPEAKS SWAHILI
1:07:47 > 1:07:49Khartoum has fallen.
1:07:49 > 1:07:53Gordon Pasha's head parade on a pike on the Mahdist camp.
1:07:54 > 1:07:55I don't believe it.
1:07:55 > 1:07:58So much for your lion who scattered jackals.
1:07:58 > 1:08:00The Arab slave are only a day away.
1:08:00 > 1:08:02Our turn is coming, and yours.
1:08:02 > 1:08:05They search for two English soldier and a white woman.
1:08:05 > 1:08:07Then fight.
1:08:07 > 1:08:09With spears against guns?
1:08:09 > 1:08:11With anything.
1:08:11 > 1:08:13Isn't it better than slavery?
1:08:13 > 1:08:16Do you think of us or only yourself?
1:08:16 > 1:08:17Of both!
1:08:17 > 1:08:19Gondoko will not fight.
1:08:19 > 1:08:22Well then, at least move out of here!
1:08:22 > 1:08:24Don't let it be scooped up like fish in a net.
1:08:36 > 1:08:38Gondoko will not fight or run.
1:08:38 > 1:08:41He will barter you to the Arab slaver for gold.
1:08:41 > 1:08:44Take this, before it's too late.
1:08:44 > 1:08:45Come with us.
1:08:47 > 1:08:50My wife and child will be sold.
1:08:50 > 1:08:54Go back to your hut, now, before it's too late.
1:09:20 > 1:09:22HE SPEAKS SWAHILI
1:10:25 > 1:10:27Aargh!
1:10:42 > 1:10:43Huh!
1:10:45 > 1:10:48That should wake the neighbours. Come on!
1:10:58 > 1:10:59SHE SQUEALS
1:11:00 > 1:11:02Come on - run, run, run!
1:11:14 > 1:11:16SPEAKS SWAHILI
1:11:27 > 1:11:29SPEAKS SWAHILI
1:11:31 > 1:11:32Back here.
1:11:33 > 1:11:34HE SPEAKS SWAHILI
1:11:39 > 1:11:42HE SPEAKS SWAHILI
1:11:42 > 1:11:44Why don't they throw their spears?
1:11:44 > 1:11:46To keep us alive...
1:11:46 > 1:11:48to sell us to the Arabs.
1:12:06 > 1:12:08HE SHOUTS IN SWAHILI
1:12:27 > 1:12:28HE SPEAKS SWAHILI
1:12:32 > 1:12:33HE SPEAKS SWAHILI
1:12:42 > 1:12:43HE SPEAKS SWAHILI
1:12:57 > 1:12:58HE SPEAKS SWAHILI
1:13:05 > 1:13:07You wait there.
1:13:32 > 1:13:35Mr Murchison, you have hidden talents.
1:13:42 > 1:13:45Gondoko forget that I know what it is to be a slave.
1:14:25 > 1:14:27Is that all that's going with us?
1:14:28 > 1:14:30What about the others?
1:14:30 > 1:14:34They will not come. They celebrate their freedom from Gondoko.
1:14:34 > 1:14:37Freedom...till the slavers come in the morning.
1:14:41 > 1:14:45In his heart, each believe it will be his neighbour the slaver takes...
1:14:45 > 1:14:47not him.
1:14:47 > 1:14:50But they're mad! We must talk to them.
1:14:50 > 1:14:52It's no good, I have talked to them!
1:14:52 > 1:14:56The Arab has put fear in their hearts
1:14:56 > 1:14:59and they say there's no use fleeing him.
1:14:59 > 1:15:00What can I do?
1:15:00 > 1:15:02Nothing Kimrasi, come with us.
1:15:02 > 1:15:05We have a chance, the Relief Column.
1:15:05 > 1:15:07Now, can we make it to the Nile.
1:15:07 > 1:15:08If we hurry.
1:15:08 > 1:15:11The Arabs are on horses and we're on foot.
1:15:15 > 1:15:18How will the Arabs know which way we've gone?
1:15:19 > 1:15:21Would you not tell,
1:15:21 > 1:15:23if it could save you from slavery?
1:16:48 > 1:16:49Horses stopped.
1:17:03 > 1:17:05How far to the Nile?
1:17:05 > 1:17:07Too far.
1:17:07 > 1:17:09Are you certain?
1:17:13 > 1:17:15At least horses can't climb rocks.
1:17:51 > 1:17:54I wish you would be wrong just sometimes.
1:17:54 > 1:17:57- Well, there's no use trying to outrun them. - Well, what else is there?
1:17:57 > 1:18:00Look, there's a big herd of elephant over there,
1:18:00 > 1:18:03can we get round the back of them without disturbing them?
1:18:03 > 1:18:05- Yes.- Come on, let's try.
1:19:35 > 1:19:37Come on, Mr Baker, come on, jump!
1:19:38 > 1:19:43I don't know - elephants, boats, rafts...how do you do it, Mr Baker?
1:19:43 > 1:19:46Just a natural-born escaper. Here, let me.
1:19:47 > 1:19:50You see, we are punting on the Thames after all.
1:19:50 > 1:19:52So we are.
1:19:52 > 1:19:54Your place...on the cushion!
1:19:54 > 1:19:56OH!
1:19:56 > 1:20:01We'll travel by day and hide by night until we get past Khartoum.
1:20:01 > 1:20:03That is if we get that far.
1:20:03 > 1:20:05SOMEONE CALLS OUT IN SWAHILI
1:20:22 > 1:20:24(Get down! Get down!)
1:20:24 > 1:20:26Not a sound,
1:20:26 > 1:20:28not even if we're challenged.
1:20:33 > 1:20:35Looks like you've been praying again.
1:20:42 > 1:20:43It looks deserted.
1:20:45 > 1:20:47Where are the Mahdist troops?
1:20:47 > 1:20:49Shh!
1:20:49 > 1:20:53GUNFIRE IN THE DISTANCE
1:20:59 > 1:21:01That's where they are.
1:21:01 > 1:21:03The Relief Column?
1:21:03 > 1:21:05Yeah.
1:21:05 > 1:21:07Sounds like fighting round Matema.
1:22:32 > 1:22:33Stand ready.
1:22:33 > 1:22:36'Stand ready!'
1:22:40 > 1:22:42'100 yards...
1:22:42 > 1:22:44'Fire!'
1:23:44 > 1:23:45They've taken Matema.
1:23:47 > 1:23:50Miss Woodville! Miss Woodville!
1:23:54 > 1:23:55Well?
1:23:55 > 1:23:57Well, the British are here all right,
1:23:57 > 1:23:59but not for much longer by the look of it.
1:23:59 > 1:24:01What are we going to do?
1:24:01 > 1:24:04I don't know...I'm afraid I'm clean out of ideas.
1:24:04 > 1:24:06And elephants.
1:24:06 > 1:24:08I was stationed in this town.
1:24:08 > 1:24:12Behind the building with the black flag is the arsenal.
1:24:12 > 1:24:15If we strolled in and blew it sky-high,
1:24:15 > 1:24:17it would even-up the odds a bit, wouldn't it?
1:24:20 > 1:24:23Blow it up, eh? All right then,
1:24:23 > 1:24:26favourite son of Gordon Pasha.
1:24:27 > 1:24:28Let's have a go!
1:24:34 > 1:24:36Take care of yourself...
1:24:36 > 1:24:39and keep a lighted candle in the window.
1:24:58 > 1:25:00What have we got into?
1:25:02 > 1:25:04Let's try another way.
1:25:21 > 1:25:22Prison guards.
1:25:22 > 1:25:24Those prisoners in there...
1:25:24 > 1:25:27reinforcements ready-made.
1:25:27 > 1:25:29Kimrasi, you speak Arabic.
1:25:34 > 1:25:37HE SPEAKS ARABIC
1:26:15 > 1:26:17That's appreciation for you. Come on!
1:26:20 > 1:26:22Baker, I found the magazines back here.
1:26:26 > 1:26:28Get out! Go on, out of here!
1:26:28 > 1:26:29Get 'em all out. Out, quick!
1:26:29 > 1:26:31Go on, get out.
1:26:56 > 1:26:58I wish he'd hurry up.
1:27:39 > 1:27:40Wait, where'd you get that?
1:27:40 > 1:27:42I always keep one around...
1:27:42 > 1:27:43in case of emergencies.
1:27:43 > 1:27:45Ha-ha!
1:27:47 > 1:27:49ALL: HOORAY!
1:27:59 > 1:28:01Mr Murchison?
1:28:03 > 1:28:04Yes, sir?
1:28:04 > 1:28:08General's compliments and his personal congratulations
1:28:08 > 1:28:11- on extraordinary valour under fire. - Thank you very much, sir.
1:28:11 > 1:28:13Which is Private Baker?
1:28:13 > 1:28:15Er, that's me, sir. Baker, Richard, Private, sir.
1:28:15 > 1:28:17Ah, we've been looking for you.
1:28:17 > 1:28:19You're under arrest. Guard.
1:28:19 > 1:28:22Private Baker, you are charged with deserting your post
1:28:22 > 1:28:23while awaiting court martial.
1:28:23 > 1:28:25< Mr Baker! Oh!
1:28:27 > 1:28:28This man is under arrest.
1:28:28 > 1:28:30But that's absolute nonsense!
1:28:30 > 1:28:32You must be mistaken. That's ridiculous.
1:28:32 > 1:28:35You can make statements to the court martial in Cairo.
1:28:35 > 1:28:37Permission to embrace the lady, sir?
1:28:37 > 1:28:40What, here? In front of all these people?
1:28:43 > 1:28:46In front of the whole perishing army.
1:28:56 > 1:28:58Don't worry, we've got out of worse than this.
1:28:58 > 1:29:00Excuse me, madam.
1:29:00 > 1:29:02Bring him down to the gun boat.
1:29:02 > 1:29:07Excuse me, sir....that gun boat,
1:29:07 > 1:29:10might I ask, sir, where it's been?
1:29:10 > 1:29:13Up the Nile beyond Khartoum picking up survivors from various towns.
1:29:15 > 1:29:18THEY LAUGH HEARTILY
1:29:18 > 1:29:20I don't see what's so funny.
1:29:20 > 1:29:23No, sir. I'm sorry, sir, I don't imagine you would, sir.
1:29:23 > 1:29:25THEY CONTINUE TO LAUGH
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