Zulu - Another great film

Really are cracking posts these(y) Good deal there Harry,and I havent heard the term "sweating for a number there" since I was at the Acklam Garden City with the old fella and our lass.
 
NorthumberlandBoro said:
One of my all time favourite films.
I watched it the other night for the umpteenth time.
The sequence where the men are singing men of Harlech and the camera cuts to the Zulus in full charge still gets the hair on the back of my neck standing up!
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Does me too, you can do better than that Jones, they certainly don't have a tenor sir, that's for sure, the singing, the beating of their shields, total masterpiece
 
Re Hook did you know his family was upset at his portrayal in the film as far from being a drunken rebel he was a soldiers soldier and a real by the rules man.

it’s sad when films do that and it’s happened to quite a few over the years.
 
SalfordBoro said:
At the time the British Military didn't have the same amount of medals as they do now, hence the high amount awarded. I think the medals are cast from a cannon that was used in the Crimean war or something like that.
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Yes all taken from that one piece of metal.

I love the roll of honour at the end of Zulu Richard Burton’s dulcet tones.
 
“ Private Henry Hook's daughters, who were quite elderly when this movie was released, walked out of the premiere in disgust at his portrayal. His fellow soldiers remembered him as a good soldier who didn't drink alcohol.”

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There was a TV documentary about the Victoria Cross by Jeremy Clarkson. They showed the actual lump of metal taken out of the safe where it's kept, and interviewed the civil servant who looks after it , amongdt other duties. She said that a disproportionate number of recipients are the oldest of siblings.
 
Being raised in North Ormesby, going to the Majectic to see a film was a real treat in the school holidays. I think it had just one screen when it opened but another screen was added late before it turned into a bingo hall.
 
Our lass and her mate went to the majestic to see summer holiday being 10 they were turned away as being to young.
Cliff Richard- beggars belief today.
 
The first film I saw at the Majestic was Song of the South.

They wouldn’t get away with making films like that now, but it was a great kids film. Coming from a West Indian background, we thought our grandad was just like uncle Remus.

Always telling us long exaggerated stories and singing, but that’s what grandad’s do. 😜
 
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