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Richard Burton's narration was recorded at a sound studio in Paris, France, on September 21, 1963.	D
Had the Zulu impi that attacked Rorke's drift attacked the defenders one last time it is likely they [...]	D
Ulla Jacobsson was well-known internationally for her role in the controversial Swedish film Ha ball [...]	D
One of the British failings at the battle of Isandlwana was the standing order that only one ammunit [...]	D
This movie was shot in the Royal Natal National Park, which is about 90 miles (140 km) southwest of [...]	D
During the performance of his one-man show, Michael Caine said he auditioned for Lieutenant Bromhead [...]	D
Sir Michael Caine visited the officers' mess of the Scots Guards at Pirbright with the intention of [...]	D
According to a recent book, Stanley Baker intended the role of Private Hitch to be played by "the ac [...]	D
The opening and closing narration was read by Richard Burton.	D
The historical Colour Sergeant Bourne was 24 during the defence of Rorke's Drift (Nigel Green, who p [...]	D
In Acting: Michael Caine: On Acting in Film, Arts, and Entertainment (1987), Sir Michael Caine remem [...]	D
The hospital scenes were filmed at Twickenham studios in the U.K., using locally cast Afro-Caribbean [...]	D
Michael Caine and Glynn Edwards later appear in Get Carter 1971.	D
Henry Coleman and Leigh Tarrant filmed three documentaries about this film. All can be found online. [...]	D
Nigel Green and Sir Michael Caine later appear in The Ipcress File 1965.	D
Stanley Baker owned John Chard's Victoria Cross (and other medals) from 1972 until his death in 1976 [...]	D
One of this movie's technical advisors was a Zulu Princess, and the tribe's historian. She knew the [...]	D
Michael Caine only earned Â£4,000 for his role. Stanley Baker and Jack Hawkins were the highest pa [...]	D
Joseph E. Levine said he would back any project Stanley Baker wanted to do. Baker said there was a p [...]	D
Colonel John Chard, a life-long heavy smoker, died of cancer at 49. Stanley Baker, another life-long [...]	D
The actual Battle of Rorke's Drift took place on January 22 and 23, 1879. British casualties were 32 [...]	D
In real life, Commissary Dalton was the most experienced soldier at the battle. He played a major pa [...]	D
Historian Saul David wrote, "It gives the impression that the defenders were mostly Welshmen, when i [...]	D
Afrikaner spies among the crew told the local police how the actors and technicians behaved in South [...]	D
When Adendorff draws the Zulu bull diagram, he refers to the "loins" (most commonly referred to as t [...]	D
Private Henry Hook's daughters, who were quite elderly when this movie was released, walked out of t [...]	D
Bromhead's regiment was involved at Islandhwana on 22 Jan. during which Captain Reginald Younghusban [...]	D
Director Cy Endfield wanted a camera crane that was lightweight when disassembled, so it could be pa [...]	D
Contrary to popular rumor, Colour Sergeant Bourne did not decline the award of a Victoria Cross in f [...]	D
This movie led many to believe that all of the troops at Rorke's Drift were Welsh. Of the 122 men wh [...]	D
The general in charge of the first Zulu war was Ntshingwayo kaMahole Khoza. After the war and the re [...]	D
The Zulu battle chants were also used in the opening battle scene in Il gladiatore (2000), when the [...]	D
After the events in this film, Britain got its back up and sent an even greater army to south Africa [...]	D
The historical Private Henry Hook was 28 during the Battle of Rorke's Drift and James Booth was 36.	D
Hugh Grant's favourite film.	D
Stanley Baker, Nigel Green, Patrick Magee and Neil McCarthy had worked together in the 1960 film The [...]	D
The 700+ Zulu extras were mostly descendants of the warriors who fought in the battle. Chief Mangosu [...]	D
A plan was in place to turn southern Africa into a confederation similar to what had taken place in [...]	D
A new set of lyrics for the Welsh Anthem "Men of Harlech" was written for the movie. "Can't you see [...]	D
An independent film company interviewed some of the surviving cast, including, Dickie Owen, Denys Gr [...]	D
Chard's men were dispatched to Isandlwana and then he was ordered to return to Rorke's Drift. As he [...]	D
The scene in which the soldiers, in order to match the Zulu's chanting and show that they are just a [...]	D
Stanley Baker, an active Socialist off-screen, tried to make the movie as anti-racist and pro-Zulu a [...]	D
Zulu soldiers were well-motivated and ruled with an iron fist. Many of them were former opponents wh [...]	D
Private Henry Hook was required to be in the field hospital, which consisted mostly of interior shot [...]	D
In the 21st century the film is often accused of being racist.	D
When Nigel Green and still photographer Bob Martin visited the Zulu War Museum in Ladysmith, they fo [...]	D
The historical Corporal William Allen was not a model soldier; he had been reduced in rank to corpor [...]	D
At the time of this battle Chard and Bromhead had been lieutenants for eight years. They were not co [...]	D
In his 1973 autobiography "Anything for a Quiet Life", Jack Hawkins admitted he did not like the way [...]	D
The film was widely seen as marking the end of Jack Hawkins' stardom, as it confirmed he had moved i [...]	D
South Africa's apartheid laws had wide-ranging effects on the production. The cast and crew were con [...]	D
Isandlwana, the site of the massacre, was only ten miles from Rorke's Drift. Chard, Bromhead and the [...]	D
Joe Powell's role was much bigger, but he became ill during the period when his scenes were to be sh [...]	D
The world premiere took place in London, on the 85th anniversary of the Battle of Rorke's Drift.	D
Stanley Baker intended to produce and star in Zulu Dawn (1979), but died two years before that movie [...]	D
Before the Zulu assault scene was shot, the crew showed the Zulu extras a Roy Rogers film to show th [...]	D
In a 2015 interview with Lesley Stahl on 60 Minutes (1968), Michael Caine said that he was lucky the [...]	D
The Psalm Colour Sergeant Bourne and Reverend Otto Witt quote prior to the battle is Psalm 46, verse [...]	D
In this film, Zulu King Cetshwayo was played by Mangosuthu Buthelezi, his maternal great-grandson an [...]	D
Michael Caine originally auditioned for the part of Private Henry Hook.	D
In 1936, Colour Sergeant Bourne, believed to be the longest-living survivor of Rorke's Drift, made a [...]	D
At one point, the pastor urges the local conscripts to abandon their posts and to run away. It is un [...]	D
After the battle, British troops finished off the wounded Zulu warriors with bayonets and gunfire.	D
In real life, Chard and Bromhead were regarded as less than remarkable officers by their superiors. [...]	D
During shooting, Paramount Pictures executives sent a telegram to the producers in South Africa orde [...]	D
The Zulu extras, who had never seen a movie, had trouble understanding what they were doing playing [...]	D
The published casualties of the battle of Rorke's Drift were 351 Zulu fatalities, with 17 British ki [...]	D
Michael Caine is first seen on a horse crossing a river. It was a local horse, which was frightened [...]	D
In this film King Cetshwayo was portrayed by one of his descendants, who was of average height and b [...]	D
During the first combat scenes, the powder charge was significant. In the later battle scenes, the r [...]	D
Writer John Prebble, producer Stanley Baker, and director Cy Endfield planned to re-team for the Wil [...]	D
Rorke's Drift was attacked by the Zulu reserve, specifically elements of the iNdluyengwe, uThulwana, [...]	D
This was Michael Caine's first major movie role. He watched the dailies once, but was so nervous tha [...]	D
In real life, Lieutenant Bromhead was extremely deaf. It's most of the reason he agreed to relinquis [...]	D
Italian censorship visa # 43546 delivered on 8 August 1964.	D
Many Zulu extras laughed at Michael Caine because of his long blond hair. Their nickname for him was [...]	D
Nigel Green was taller than the real-life Colour Sergeant Bourne, who was 5' 6" (1.68 m). At 40, Gre [...]	D
Stanley Baker and Michael Caine had worked together before in I fucilieri dei mari della Cina (1956) [...]	D
In real life, only 17 British soldiers were killed in the Battle for Rorke's Drift.	D
When Bromhead is hunting, the animal he tries and fails to shoot is a leopard. This is not a food an [...]	D
The Union Jack Club is a hotel located directly across from Waterloo Railway station in London. The [...]	D
The rifles in this movie are short lever Martini-Henry single-shots in .450/.577 caliber. The design [...]	D
South Africa's Minister of Native Affairs banned screenings for black South Africans, because "it mi [...]	D
Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, who comes from a long line of Zulu warriors and royalty, played his grea [...]	D
Zulu King Cetshwayo was a half-nephew of the famous Zulu king Shaka and son of King Mpande. While Mp [...]	D
The set of Rorke's Drift was built in a grassy canyon. The actual site, which can be viewed online i [...]	D
Lieutenant Bromhead had never been in battle. Michael Caine was a veteran of the British Army, and h [...]	D

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In real life, most of the rounds fired by the British either wounded the Zulus or missed them comple [...]	D
The cartridges being used, as seen when opening the ammunition box, are of a later design from the 1 [...]	D
When Margareta Witt is grabbed for a kiss in the hospital, she pulls away and a few top buttons of h [...]	D
The film opens with Otto Witt at Ulundi, as the guest of Cetshwayo. In fact, Cetshwayo disliked Witt [...]	D
At the end of the last redoubt scene, the rifle in the foreground is a bolt action Lee-Enfield or Le [...]	D
The film's Private Hook (James Booth) is portrayed as a coward, gambler, malingerer and drinker. The [...]	D
The final salute by the Zulus did not take place. Some warriors appeared on the hill the following m [...]	D
Bayonets and spears wobble, indicating they are made of rubber or some other soft material. Private [...]	D
Several Zulu warriors wear wrist watches.	D
The 24th is identified as the "South Wales Borderers". In 1879 the regiment was the 2nd Warwickshire [...]	D
In the hospital, the holes in the walls to be used as loopholes and to escape from one room to the n [...]	D
The Zulu chief Cetewayo did not send his impi to attack Rorke's Drift; he ordered that the installat [...]	D
Chard and Bromhead's Webley Mark VI revolvers were introduced during World War I.	D
A camera shadow is on Chard's helmet as he walks along the bag wall.	D
When De Witt is held is the storeroom before the first attack, some tunic jackets are hanging on the [...]	D
Chard breaks open his revolver twice within a few seconds.	D
The area surrounding the actual Rorke's Drift is nowhere near as mountainous as in this movie.	D
Incorrectly regard as a goof. With regard to the same shield seen by the departing Zulu and being st [...]	D
When Bromhead, Chard, and Adendorff first speak, Bromhead is standing still with the knob atop a mou [...]	D
A camera shadow falls on Bromhead's right shoulder after he tells Chard he did it.	D
In real life, both Bromhead and Chard wore blue tunics. They also had mustaches.	D
A camera shadow is on the shield as the Zulu sneak up for the first engagement.	D
As the soldiers move into the redoubt before the dawn raid toward the end of the film, the shadows c [...]	D
The soldiers wear parade dress uniforms, including white helmets displaying the regimental crest. On [...]	D
On one of the DVD extras, Stanley Baker's widow, Ellen Martin, says she remembers so well how on the [...]	D
A few battle scenes show British soldiers with bolt-action rifles.	D
Witt's actions during the battle are completely fictionalized. He owned the property at Rorke's Drif [...]	D
The Zulus only made one concerted charge at the British ramparts early in the battle. They quickly r [...]	D
The Commissary Doctor lifts the lid on a pot of boiling soup. It should be too hot to handle.	D
At one point, a bright flash of sunshine reflects briefly off something on the hill behind Rorke's D [...]	D
When Cpl. Allen is shot while helping Hitch, he grasps the right side of his chest. In all other sce [...]	D
In the hospital before the battle, Jones tells Cpl. Schiess that he belongs to "C Company". B Compan [...]	D
The young women dancing in the open mass wedding wear black panties. At the time of the battle, they [...]	D
Rev DeWitt was not at Chetewayo's kraal in Ulundi for either the battle of Isandlawana or Rorke's Dr [...]	D
After Pvt. Hook breaks into the doctor's cabinet and steals the brandy, he smashes the top off. When [...]	D
When the Witt missionaries leave the Zulu camp they get into the cart, but as the cart rides out of [...]	D
In the movie, "Men of Harlech" is the unit's regimental song. At the time of the battle, the regimen [...]	D
In the film, the Zulus use rifles captured at Isandlwana. In real life, the Zulu force at Rorke's Dr [...]	D
In the opening scene showing the aftermath of the battle of Isandlwana, there is no blood visible on [...]	D
The Natal Native Contingent soldiers were not frightened away by the ravings of a pastor, but by the [...]	D
A camera shadow falls on a bandaged soldier after the company roll call.	D
During the battle in the hospital, when Hook bayonets a Zulu up against the wall, the bayonet clearl [...]	D
An early scene with soldiers working on a dam at the base shows the Drakensberg Amphitheatre in the [...]	D
When Sgt. Maxfield faints in the hospital, Hook walks over and stands over him with both hands empty [...]	D
Cpl. Schiess was in the Natal Native Contingent, not the Mounted Police as stated in the film.	D
The British officer states that the Zulu riflemen cannot fire from the hill because the chief is afr [...]	D
During the opening dance sequence, a messenger approaches the area where the Chief and Witt sit. Sha [...]	D
A camera shadow is on the ground between the two rows of Zulus prior to attack.	D
The Zulu regiments that attacked Rorke's Drift had been ordered not to cross into Natal from Zululan [...]	D
In the film, Bromhead and Chard received their commissions in 1872. In real life, Chard got his in 1 [...]	D
The same Zulu stunt warriors are killed at least three different times during the battle.	D
When Lt. Bromhead returns from his hunt, the bearers are carrying a dead cheetah and a springbok. Th [...]	D
When Lieut Bromhead (Michael Caine) is fighting the Zulus on the roof of the hospital building, his [...]	D
When Chard fights the two Zulus who break through the line, a soldier near him is shot and slumps ov [...]	D
Chard and Bromhead did not have to compare promotion dates to determine seniority. Chard had been pu [...]	D
As Chard is taken to the hospital, a soldier leans on the railing outside the hospital door. Both ar [...]	D
To simulate 4,000 Zulu warriors lining up on a ridge, with only 500 Zulu extras, long wooden frames [...]	D
When the messenger approaches the king, the sun shines on the king's left shoulder. In the following [...]	D
The young soldier guarding Witt addresses Colour Sgt. Bourne as "Sir." Bourne was not a commissioned [...]	D
Pvt. Hitch is shot through the thigh by a Zulu sniper. In real life, he was shot through the shoulde [...]	D
In two different scenes, when the soldiers are given marching orders, they start to move before the [...]	D
Bromhead refers to "a lesson the General, my grandfather, taught me". Lt. Gen. Sir Gonville Bromhead [...]	D
The NCO badges of rank are on the soldiers' left arms. They should be on their right arms.	D
Jet contrails are visible.	D
When the warriors line up at the top of the mountain to sing their salute to the defenders, one of t [...]	D
When Rev. Otto Witt flees Cetewayo's kraal after the report of the massacre at Isandlwana, the drive [...]	D
When a Zulu warrior in the hospital is shot and falls backwards, he is wearing a pair of red flip-fl [...]	D
The film indicates that the number of NNC (Natal Native Contingent) soldiers were very few. In fact [...]	D

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