Box set: Michael Caine Triple Movie Collection

Zulu

MGM/UA (1964)

Action, Adventure, History

/ Color / 139 mins

5014437157430

In Collection
#852

7.8

Plot

In 1879, during the Zulu wars, man of the people Lt. John Chard (Stanley Baker) and snooty Lt Gonville Bromhead (Michael Caine) are in charge of defending the isolated Natal outpost of Rorke's Drift from tribal hordes, holding out during an Alamo-like seige until they are overwhelmed, losing the battle, but going down in history as heroes. 150 soldiers defended a supply station against some 4000 Zulus, aided by the Martini-Henry rifle 'with some guts behind it. "At Rorke's Drift, eleven Victoria Crosses were awarded. Seven to the 2nd Battalion, 24th (2nd Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot, one to the Army Medical Department, one to the Royal Engineers, one to the Commissariat and Transport Department and one to the Natal Native Contingent.

Cast

	Stanley Baker	Lt. John Chard
	Michael Caine	Lt. Gonville Bromhead
	Jack Hawkins	Rev. Otto Witt
	James Booth	Pvt. Henry Hook
	Ulla Jacobsson	Margareta Witt
	Nigel Green	Colour Sgt. Frank Bourne
	Ivor Emmanuel	Pvt. Owen
	Paul Daneman	Sgt. Robert Maxfield
	Glynn Edwards	Cpl. William Allen
	Neil McCarthy	Pvt. John Thomas
	Richard Burton	Narrator