Zulu (1964): the Trevor Interview

[Trevor]

I have not seen Zulu --- it's on a very long list of things I want to see

Here's the original trailer 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNV2M-WOgMM

[Alex]

I have not seen Zulu --- it's on a very long list of things I want to see

in fact, now that I think it, the only movies I've seen a young Michael Caine in are Dressed to Kill and Sleuth

If you do go to watch it, just be aware there are two films. Zulu Dawn (starring Peter O'Toole, which is about the rather disastrous (for the British), battle of Isandlwana, and then Zulu is about the Battle of Rorke's Drift. A lot of people get the two movies mixed up. Of the two I would say that Zulu is the more enjoyable film, although both films have their merits.

[Trevor]

I have not seen Zulu --- it's on a very long list of things I want to see

in fact, now that I think it, the only movies I've seen a young Michael Caine in are Dressed to Kill and Sleuth

If you do go to watch it, just be aware there are two films. Zulu Dawn (starring Peter O'Toole, which is about the rather disastrous (for the British), battle of Isandlwana, and then Zulu is about the Battle of Rorke's Drift. A lot of people get the two movies mixed up. Of the two I would say that Zulu is the more enjoyable film, although both films have their merits.

I knew some of the people who worked on Zulu Dawn (1979) and one of them told me that the production was bankrupt even before they started filming and people weren't paid for weeks 

There was a silent SA production called Symbol of Sacrifice which is also about the battle of Isandlwana, made in 1918: one of the few surviving silent films in Africa.