Fresh
Joseph E. Levine makes an impressive debut in British film production with Zulu, a picture that allows ample scope for his flamboyant approach to showmanship.
Variety Staff, Variety
Zulu
Dwarfing the mightiest! Towering over the greatest!
1964 · 2h 18m · Approved
Action, Drama, History, War
Directed by
Cy Endfield
Overview
In 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, man-of-the-people Lt. Chard and snooty Lt. Bromhead are in charge of defending the isolated and vastly outnumbered Natal outpost of Rorke's Drift from tribal hordes.
Director and cast
- Cy Endfield Director
- Stanley Baker as Lt. John Chard R.E.
- Jack Hawkins as Rev. Otto Witt
- Ulla Jacobsson as Margareta Witt
- James Booth as Pte. Henry Hook
- Michael Caine as Lt. Gonville Bromhead
- Nigel Green as Colour Sgt. Frank Bourne
- Paul Daneman as Sgt. Maxfield
- Patrick Magee as Surgeon Reynolds
- Glynn Edwards as Cpl. Allen
- Neil McCarthy as Pvt. Thomas
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
97%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Zulu is a fairly tough-minded and interesting account of a company of Welsh soldiers doing their bit for somebody else's Queen and Country in an alien land.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Fresh
Students of such things in movies should appreciate this one, for it has all the standard ingredients of the heroic hold-the-fort film.
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
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