|
Zulu Dawn (1979)
|
IMDB rating: 6.4/10
Cy Endfield cowrote 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--the British contingent was 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 none the less 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 that followed soon after, Zulu Dawn is an unflinchingly honest depiction of British Imperial diplomacy.
Burt Lancaster ... Col. Durnford
Simon Ward ... Lt. William Vereker
Denholm Elliott ... Colonel Pulleine
Peter Vaughan ... Q.S.M. Bloomfield
James Faulkner ... Lt. Melvill
Christopher Cazenove ... Lt. Coghill
Bob Hoskins ... C.S.M. Williams
David Bradley ... Pte. Williams (as Dai Bradley)
Paul Copley ... Cpl. Storey
Donald Pickering ... Maj. Russell R.A.
Nicholas Clay ... Lt. Raw
Phil Daniels ... Boy Pullen
Ian Yule ... Cpl. Fields
Peter J. Elliott ... Sentry
Brian O'Shaughnessy ... Maj. Stewart-Smith R.A. (as Brian O'Shaunnessy)
http://rapidshare.com/files/80851884/Zudan79.part01.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/80855546/Zudan79.part02.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/80859020/Zudan79.part03.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/80862580/Zudan79.part04.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/80865925/Zudan79.part05.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/80869152/Zudan79.part06.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/80872494/Zudan79.part07.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/80876291/Zudan79.part08.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/80880488/Zudan79.part09.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/80884050/Zudan79.part10.rar |
File size: 948 Mb | Dimensions: 592 x 336
Video: 1041 kbps XviD | Audio: 128 kb/s mp3
Fast Free File Hosting
|
Posted in videos by mumba
on Jan. 03, 2008 // 12:13
|
Comments (0)
|
