Ah, man, I would love to see the restored 'Zulu' on the big-screen! The LAT article has theaters listed in S. Ca. I hope it will come to an art-house theaters in Chicago! time to do some research....


http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-zulu-review-20140820-column.html

Absolutely - brilliant film.

RedToo.

Indeed,a brilliant film,but far from the truth.

Anyone interested in what really happened can check out a brief article here LINK

Erm, I think you'll find that this is how it really happened!

...apart from the end bit...

I can see where you went wrong there Mace,you never sang 'Men of Harlech'

I preferred Zulu Dawn..that movie needs a remake, so does the Shaka series.

Woa. Just realized I can still hum the Shaka series main theme. Almost 30 years after watching it on TV.

I still have the single on CD. It was a top ten hit in The Netherlands at the time.

I was once told a story back from maybe 1990 or so.... an LSL - the "Sir" boats of Falklands infamy - was somewhere in the Med, Cyprus I think. In the evenings just after dusk they'd rig up a projector on the flight deck with a big white sheet as a screen and show a movie. This particular night it was Zulu. At the height of the battle the Donkeyman (Chief Petty Officer of the engine room) came wobbling back up the gangway quite drunk. He grabbed a broom stick and started bayoneting the Zulus and playing his own part in the Battle of Rourke's Drift. I'm told he was so immersed in the battle it took three people to disarm him and carry him back to his bunk.

Same here, some things just stick lol. I rewatched the series last year, loved Henry Celle in the series as Shaka.

Great anecdote Pielstick