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17 June 1964 (USA) moreTagline:
Dwarfing The Mightiest! Towering Over The Greatest! morePlot:
Outnumbered British soldiers do battle with Zulu warriors at Rorke's Drift. full summary | add synopsisAwards:
Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. moreNewsDesk:
(7 articles)
Keyeye: Robin Webb an Interview (From 28 Days Later Analysis. 3 June 2009, 9:32 PM, PDT)
Caine: 'My parents thought I was gay'
(From digitalspy. 20 April 2009, 7:24 AM, PDT)
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Courage, Honor, Humanity .... War moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Stanley Baker | ... | Lieutenant John Chard R.E. | |
| Jack Hawkins | ... | Otto Witt | |
| Ulla Jacobsson | ... | Margareta Witt | |
| James Booth | ... | Private Henry Hook | |
| Michael Caine | ... | Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead | |
| Nigel Green | ... | Colour-Sergeant Bourne | |
| Ivor Emmanuel | ... | Private Owen | |
| Paul Daneman | ... | Sergeant Maxfield | |
| Glynn Edwards | ... | Corporal Allen | |
| Neil McCarthy | ... | Private Thomas | |
| David Kernan | ... | Private Hitch | |
| Gary Bond | ... | Private Cole | |
| Peter Gill | ... | Private 612 Williams | |
| Tom Gerrard | ... | Lance / Corporal | |
| Patrick Magee | ... | Surgeon Reynolds |
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View content advisory for parentsRuntime:
138 minCountry:
UKColour:
Colour (Technicolor)Aspect Ratio:
2.20 : 1 moreSound Mix:
4-Track Stereo (35 mm magnetic prints) | 70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints) | Mono (35 mm optical prints)Certification:
Iceland:12 | Portugal:M/12 | New Zealand:PG | Australia:M (alternate rating) | Australia:PG (original rating) | Finland:K-8 | Singapore:PG (DVD rating) | Sweden:15 | UK:PG (video rating) (1989) | UK:U (original rating) | USA:Unrated | West Germany:16Fun Stuff
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The then Minister of Native Affairs banned the film for screenings to black South Africans as "it might incite them to rise up in revolt". moreGoofs:
Continuity: The scene with the messenger approaching the king, the sun is shining on the king's left shoulder. The following scene, messenger facing the king, the sun is shining from behind the camera position casting a different angle of shadow. moreQuotes:
Lieutenant John Chard: What's our strength?Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead: Seven officers including surgeon, commissaries and so on; Adendorff now I suppose; wounded and sick 36, fit for duty 97 and about 40 native levies. Not much of an army for you.
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There can be no "War Movie" which is not at the same time an "Anti-war Movie". The nearly unique aspect of this movie is that it depicts that rare event in human conflict; a battle in which both sides may be said to have won. And both sides lost, of course. Lives, hopes, aspirations. Incredible performances by Stanley Baker, a very YOUNG Michael Caine. Jack Hawkins plays a credible drunken minister, and Nigel Greene delivers the eternally memorable line; when asked by a frightened soldier "why us?" Color Sergeant Bourne implacably replies "Because we're here, lad. Because we're here." It's as impossible to ignore the fine, sensitive scripting as the surprisingly lucid depiction of The Battle of Roark's Drift. Historical inaccuracies are in petty details only; the sense of simultaneous exaltation and shame that a soldier feels after surviving his first battle has never been more accurately portrayed. Where else can you watch the making of heroes from such obviously human material? Stanley Baker's determination to make this film has earned him a place in theater history.