Remembered now as Michael Caine's debut, playing a posh officer opposite Stanley Baker, Cy Endfield's epic recreates the massacre of the Welsh redcoats by the Zulus at Rorke's Drift. Jack Hawkins runs the gamut from demented missionary to drunk, and the battle scenes are terrific.
Remembered now as Michael Caine’s debut, playing a posh officer opposite Stanley Baker, Cy Endfield’s epic recreates the massacre of the Welsh redcoats by the Zulus at Rorke’s Drift. Jack Hawkins runs the gamut from demented missionary to drunk, and the battle scenes are terrific.
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