Zulu
Summary:
Filmed on a grand scale, Zulu is a rousing recreation of the January 22, 1879, siege of Rorke's Drift in Natal, Africa. An army of 4,000 Zulu warriors have already decimated a huge British garrison; now they are on their way to the much smaller Rorke's Drift. A Royal Engineers officer (Stanley Baker) is determined to stand his ground, despite having only a skeleton garrison at his ... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Stanley Baker - (Lt. John Chard)
Jack Hawkins - (Rev. Otto Witt)
Ulla Jacobsson - (Margareta Witt)
James Booth - (Pvt. Henry Hook)
Michael Caine - (Lt. Gonville Bromhead)
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Review:
Americans remember the Alamo, and the British remember Rorke's Drift, a South African outpost where 120 Welsh soldiers fought a pitched battle against 4,000 Zulu warriors in 1879. This 1964 film re-creates the battle -- and the events leading up to it -- in spectacular style. At the beginning of the film, suspense builds when a pacifist minister wa... Continue >>
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