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Zulu Dawn
The dramatic and true story recounting the breathtaking defeat of British forces at the hands of a 25,000 strong and relentlessly determined Zulu army in 1879. General Lord Chelmsford makes the fatal decision to split the troops based on false information provided by Zulu prisoners. The men are outnumbered sixteen to one and their fate is inevitable.
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Mosaic Movies Zulu Dawn [1979]
Cy Endfield cowrote the epic prequel <I>Zulu Dawn</I> 15 years after his enormously popular <I>Zulu</I>. Set in 1879, this film depicts the catastrophic Battle of Isandhlwana, which remains the worst defeat of the British army by natives--the British contingent was outnumbered 16-to-1 by the Zulu tribesmen. <p>The film's opinion of events is made immediately clear in its title sequence: ebullient African village life presided over by King Cetshwayo is contrasted with aristocratic artifice under the arrogant eye of General Lord Chelmsford (Peter O'Toole). Chelmsford is at the heart of all that goes wrong, initiating the catastrophic battle with an ultimatum made seemingly for the sake of giving his troops something to do. His detached manner leads to one mistake after another and this is wryly illustrated in a moment when neither he nor his officers can be bothered to pronounce the name of the land they're in. That it's a beautiful land none the less is made clear by the superb cinematography, which drinks in the massive open spaces that shrink the British army to a line of red ants. <p>Splendidly stiff-upper-lipped support comes from a heroic Burt Lancaster and a fluffy, yet gruff, Bob Hoskins. Although the story is less focused and inevitably more diffuse than the concentrated events of Rorke's Drift that followed soon after, <I>Zulu Dawn</I> is an unflinchingly honest depiction of British Imperial diplomacy. --<I>Paul Tonks</I>
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Mosaic Movies Zulu Dawn The Wild Geese Ashanti [1979]
Release Date: 2005-06-06, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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Zulu Dawn / The Wild Geese / Ashanti (Best Of British Box Set)
Three features. 'Zulu Dawn' tells the true account of the British Army under the command of General Lord Chelmsford, which took on the might of the Zulu forces in 1879. Also 'The Wild Geese' and 'Ashanti'.
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