Zulu Dawn (1979)

Film Type:

Feature

Language:

English

Colour Info:

Color

Frame Rate:

24 fps

Aspect Ratio:

2.35:1

Stereoscopy:

No

Taglines:

The battle that shook the empire!
The sun dawned bloodied...two great armies met face to face...and the earth trembled to the sound of the Zulu death chant!
Like nothing before, God help us if ever again!
The blood and thunder epic... a true story
A rip-roaring blood and thunder epic

Trivia:

Burt Lancaster was reputedly "tone deaf" when it came to accents, but here he affects an Irish burr. Lancaster also was challenged by having to learn how to do things like riding a horse with only one arm.

Sir William Stanley Baker, who co-produced and played Lieutenant John Chard in Zulu (1964), had always wanted to make a movie about the Battle of Isandhlwana. Unfortunately, he died two years before this movie was made. He had intended to play Colonel Durnford.

There was some opposition to casting Burt Lancaster as Colonel Durnford, since, at sixty-four, he was much older than the character.