Zulu Dawn

Zulu Dawn

Zulu Dawn
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Actor: Burt Lancaster; Peter O'Toole; Sir John Mills; Bob Hoskins
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); Zulu (Original Language)
Format: Color, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 113 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-09-27
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Tango Entertainment

Movie Reviews of Zulu Dawn

Movie Review: Zulu Dawn: OK but not as good as Zulu
Summary: 3 Stars

This is a movie worth watching with some fair battle scenes in. Political correctness seems to have a strangle grip on the writing of this movie.

Summary of Zulu Dawn

A prequel to the war epic "Zulu", this dramatic story recounts the breathtaking defeat of British forces at the hands of a 25,000 strong and relentlessly determined Zulu army in 1870. The all-star cast, and extravagant production quality make Zulu Dawn a spectacular film with a guaranteed place in the list of Hollywood Greats.
Cy Endfield co-wrote the epic prequel Zulu Dawn 15 years after his enormously popular Zulu. Set in 1879, this film depicts the catastrophic Battle of Isandhlwana, which remains the worst defeat of the British army by natives, with the British contingent outnumbered 16-to-1 by the Zulu tribesmen. 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 nonetheless 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. 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 which followed soon after, Zulu Dawn is an unflinchingly honest depiction of British Imperial diplomacy. --Paul Tonks

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