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Zulu Dawn

The sun dawned bloodied... two great armies met face to face... and the earth trembled to the sound of the Zulu death chant!

6.0 / 10

117 minutes

1979-05-14

Zulu

NL

Actors :

Burt Lancaster, Simon Ward, Denholm Elliott, Peter Vaughan, James Faulkner, Christopher Cazenove, Bob Hoskins, David Bradley, Paul Copley, Donald Pickering, Nicholas Clay, Phil Daniels, Ian Yule, Peter J. Elliott, Brian O'Shaughnessy

Description

In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership.

Reviews

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

12/3/2022, 6:11:54 PM

Though certainly epic in cinematographic terms, this is a really meandering and over-cast depiction of the Zulu defeat of the British garrison at Isandlwana at the end of the 19th century. I'm assuming it was made as a precursor of - and to capitalise upon - the far superior "Zulu" (1964) but right from the get-go it's just wordy and ponderous and, well, lacklustre. Peter O'Toole does exude a cert...