Rating: NR
Length: 138 minutes

Widescreen 2.35:1 Color

ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Stereo

English

It's 1879 and a tribe of Zulus has wiped out over 1200 British troops. All that is left is a small mission used as a hospital run by a rather pompous and inexperienced officer (Caine) and a group of engineers; total strength of about 100 men. What ensues is a power struggle between Caine and the ranking officer of the engineers (Baker) as they prepare for the inevitable attack. Add to this group a reverend and his daughter for their moral "outbursts".

This is the perfect example why one should never underestimate an opponent. The fights are well choreographed and the soundtrack does its job. And if you dislike blood & gore, there is very little of it considering the death and destruction this film portrays.

At 138 minutes, this move tends to drag at times.

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This is still a good war movie that holds up even after 40+ years.

Cy Endfield

Stanley Baker - Lt. John Chard

[Alexander the Great, The Guns of Navarone]

Gary Bond - Pvt. Thomas Cole

James Booth - Pvt. Henry Hook

Michael Caine - Lt. Gonville Bromhead

[A Bridge Too Far, Batman Begins, Battle of Britain, The Dark Knight, Dressed to Kill, The Eagle Has Landed, The Prestige, The Quiet American, Secondhand Lions]

Paul Daneman - Sgt. Robert Maxfield

Glynn Edwards - Cpl. William Allen

Ivor Emmanuel - Pvt. Owen

Tom Gerrard - Lance Corporal

Peter Gill - Pvt. John (612) Williams

Nigel Green - Colour Sgt. Frank Bourne

Jack Hawkins - Rev. Otto Witt

Ulla Jacobsson - Margareta Witt

David Kernan - Pvt. Fred Hitch

Patrick Magee - Surgeon Maj. James Henry Reynolds

[A Clockwork Orange]

Neil McCarthy - Pvt. John Thomas

[Where Eagles Dare]