"close to defeating the much smaller garrison, but were ultimately repelled. Eleven Victoria Crosses were awarded to the defenders, along with a number of other decorations and honours. Rorke's Drift, known as ""kwaJimu"" (""Jim's Land"") in the Zulu language, was a mission station and the former trading post of James Rorke, an Irish merchant. It was located near a drift, or ford, on the Buffalo (Mzinyathi) River, which at the time formed the border between the British colony of Natal and the Zulu Kingdom. On 9 January 1879, the British No. 3 (Centre) Column, under Lord Chelmsford, arrived and encamped"
"the eleven defenders who received the Victoria Cross for the defence of Rorke's Drift, the most awarded to a regiment in a single action up to that time. Cy Endfield was inspired to make the film after reading an article on the Battle of Rorke's Drift by John Prebble. He took it to actor Stanley Baker with whom he had made several films and who was interested in moving into production. Endfield and Prebble drafted a script, which Baker then showed to Joseph E. Levine while making ""Sodom and Gomorrah"" (1962) in Italy. Levine agreed to fund the movie, which"
"Citations Bibliography The Bridges at Toko-Ri The Bridges at Toko-Ri is a 1954 American war film about the Korean War and stars William Holden, Grace Kelly, Fredric March, Mickey Rooney, and Robert Strauss. The film, which was directed by Mark Robson, was produced by Paramount Pictures. Dennis Weaver and Earl Holliman make early screen appearances in the motion picture. The screenplay is based on the novel ""The Bridges at Toko-Ri"" by Pulitzer Prize winner James Michener. The story, which closely follows the novel, is about the U.S. Navy pilots assigned to bomb a group of heavily defended bridges in North"
"The Seekers (1954 film) The Seekers (released in the United States as Land of Fury) is a 1954 British adventure film produced by the Universal-International studio syndicate from Hollywood in Los Angeles, California, directed by Ken Annakin. It starred Jack Hawkins, Glynis Johns, Noel Purcell, and Kenneth Williams. It was the first major international studio film shot in New Zealand. The film was adapted from the novel """"The Seekers"""" by New Zealander John Guthrie (real name John Brodie). In 1821, a British sailing ship, the ""Becket"", anchors on the New Zealand coast. Philip Wayne (Hawkins) and Paddy Clarke (Purcell), respectively"
"matinée performance on 22 January (the anniversary of the battle) towards a fund for a fitting memorial to Frederick Hitch. His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Regimental Museum of The Royal Welsh, Brecon, Powys, Wales. Hitch was portrayed by David Kernan in the 1964 film ""Zulu"". Frederick Hitch Frederick Hitch, VC (29 November 1856 – 6 January 1913) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross for his actions at the Battle of Rorke's Drift, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Born in Southgate, in"
"shows, particularly during the era when westerns were popular. One of the most famous movies is ""Red River"" (1948) directed by Howard Hawks, and starring John Wayne and Montgomery Clift. Like many such films, Red River tended to exaggerate the dangers and disasters of cattle driving. More recently, the movie ""City Slickers"" (1990) was about a guest ranch-based cattle drive. In the 1958 film ""Cowboy"", Glenn Ford stars as a hard-living trail boss with Jack Lemmon as a citified ""tenderfoot"" who joins the drive. The long running TV show ""Rawhide"" (1959–1965), starring Eric Fleming and Clint Eastwood, dealt with drovers"
"Henry Hook (VC) Alfred Henry ""Harry"" Hook VC (6 August 1850 – 12 March 1905) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces, for his actions at the Battle of Rorke's Drift. Born in Churcham, Gloucestershire, Hook originally served in the Monmouth Militia for five years before enlisting in the regular army in March 1877, aged 26. Previously serving in the 9th Xhosa War in 1877, he received a scalp injury during the battle of Rorke's Drift,"
"more partitions - and they were then able to bring eight patients into the inner line of defence"". The 1881 census shows Henry Hook V.C. as a servant in the household of George Owen Willis, a doctor in Monmouth, Monmouthshire. His Victoria Cross is displayed at the South Wales Borderers Museum, Brecon, Powys, Wales. A poem describing Hook's part in the battle of Rorke's Drift was written by William McGonagall in 1899. In the film ""Zulu"", Hook is depicted as an insubordinate malingerer placed under arrest in the hospital, only to come good during the battle. However, Saul David writes"
"Yanks Yanks is a 1979 drama film directed by John Schlesinger and starring Richard Gere, Vanessa Redgrave, William Devane, Lisa Eichhorn and Tony Melody. The film is set during the Second World War in Northern England and features no combat scenes. The film depicts the relationships between American soldiers stationed in semi-rural England and the local population during the build-up to Operation Overlord in 1944. In particular, three romances between US service personnel and local women are shown, in order to explore the effects of the cultural differences between the brash GIs or ""Yanks"" and the more reserved British population."
"age of 91. Bourne was buried in Beckenham Crematorium and Cemetery. His house in Beckenham has been adorned with a blue plaque. In the 1964 film ""Zulu"", Bourne was played by Nigel Green. Green was considerably older (about 40 years old) and taller than Bourne, who was 24 and 5' 6"" (1.68 m) at the time of the battle. Frank Bourne Lieutenant-Colonel Frank Edward Bourne OBE DCM (April 1854 – 8 May 1945) was a decorated British soldier who participated in the defence of Rorke's Drift during the 1879 Anglo-Zulu War. He was the last known survivor of the battle."
"The Horse Soldiers The Horse Soldiers is a 1959 war film set during the American Civil War directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne, William Holden and Constance Towers. The screenplay by John Lee Mahin and Martin Rackin was loosely based on Harold Sinclair's 1956 novel of the same name, a fictionalized version of Grierson's Raid in Mississippi. The film was loosely based on Harold Sinclair's 1956 novel of the same name, which in turn was based on the historic 17-day Grierson's Raid and Battle of Newton's Station in Mississippi during the Civil War. In April 1863, Colonel Benjamin"
"The Bridges at Toko-Ri The Bridges at Toko-Ri is a 1954 American war film about the Korean War and stars William Holden, Grace Kelly, Fredric March, Mickey Rooney, and Robert Strauss. The film, which was directed by Mark Robson, was produced by Paramount Pictures. Dennis Weaver and Earl Holliman make early screen appearances in the motion picture. The screenplay is based on the novel ""The Bridges at Toko-Ri"" by Pulitzer Prize winner James Michener. The story, which closely follows the novel, is about the U.S. Navy pilots assigned to bomb a group of heavily defended bridges in North Korea. It"
"non-history buffs who would make up a large part of the audience."" The Horse Soldiers The Horse Soldiers is a 1959 war film set during the American Civil War directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne, William Holden and Constance Towers. The screenplay by John Lee Mahin and Martin Rackin was loosely based on Harold Sinclair's 1956 novel of the same name, a fictionalized version of Grierson's Raid in Mississippi. The film was loosely based on Harold Sinclair's 1956 novel of the same name, which in turn was based on the historic 17-day Grierson's Raid and Battle of Newton's"
"was the subject of the 1964 film ""Zulu"", with Reynolds portrayed by the actor Patrick Magee. His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Army Medical Services Museum (Aldershot, England). Listed in order of publication year James Henry Reynolds Lieutenant-Colonel James Henry Reynolds VC (3 February 1844 – 4 March 1932), born Kingstown (Dún Laoghaire), County Dublin, was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross for his actions at the Battle of Rorke's Drift, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was educated at"
"in the US only making $1.6 million in rentals. Yanks Yanks is a 1979 drama film directed by John Schlesinger and starring Richard Gere, Vanessa Redgrave, William Devane, Lisa Eichhorn and Tony Melody. The film is set during the Second World War in Northern England and features no combat scenes. The film depicts the relationships between American soldiers stationed in semi-rural England and the local population during the build-up to Operation Overlord in 1944. In particular, three romances between US service personnel and local women are shown, in order to explore the effects of the cultural differences between the brash"
"critics giving the film a positive review with an average rating of 8.8 out of 10. Roger Ebert considered it one of the greatest Western films of all time. This movie was the last movie shown in the 1971 motion picture ""The Last Picture Show"". Red River (1948 film) Red River is a 1948 American western film directed and produced by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne and Montgomery Clift, giving a fictional account of the first cattle drive from Texas to Kansas along the Chisholm Trail. The dramatic tension stems from a growing feud over the management of the"
"1957 British World War II film by David Lean based on the novel ""The Bridge over the River Kwai"" by French writer Pierre Boulle. The film is a work of fiction but borrows the construction of the Burma Railway in 1942–43 for its historical setting. It stars William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, and Sessue Hayakawa. The scene creation of the film was done in Sri Lanka and many of them were at Kitulgala area including the bridge explosion. In 1997, this film was deemed ""culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"" and selected for preservation in the United States Library of"
"The Battle of Rogue River The Battle of Rogue River is a 1954 Technicolor Western film starring George Montgomery, Martha Hyer, and Richard Denning, directed by William Castle and produced by Sam Katzman. The screenplay is written by Douglas Heyes. It is set during the Rogue River Wars in the Oregon Territory but features the standard costumes of a post American Civil War western and was filmed on the Newhall Ranch, California. In the Oregon Territory prior to the American Civil War, Chief Mike (Michael Granger) has fought the US Army and the white settlers to a standstill. As a"
"undertaken around Whakatane in the eastern Bay of Plenty. The world premiere of the film was held in Wellington, New Zealand on 24 June 1954. The Seekers (1954 film) The Seekers (released in the United States as Land of Fury) is a 1954 British adventure film produced by the Universal-International studio syndicate from Hollywood in Los Angeles, California, directed by Ken Annakin. It starred Jack Hawkins, Glynis Johns, Noel Purcell, and Kenneth Williams. It was the first major international studio film shot in New Zealand. The film was adapted from the novel """"The Seekers"""" by New Zealander John Guthrie (real"
"his health"". Three-packs-a-day smoker Jack Hawkins' voice is audibly fraying: it was almost the last film he made before surgery for throat cancer removed his vocal cords and left him with little more than a whisper. The score was recorded by the Sinfonia of London orchestra. The DVD commentary on the making of the film is narrated by John Leyton. Guns at Batasi Guns at Batasi is a 1964 British drama film starring Richard Attenborough, Jack Hawkins, Flora Robson, John Leyton and Mia Farrow. The film was based on the 1962 novel ""The Siege of Battersea"" by Robert Holles and"
"Drum Beat Drum Beat is a 1954 CinemaScope western film in ""WarnerColor"" written and directed by Delmer Daves and co-produced by Daves and Alan Ladd in his first film for his Jaguar Productions company. Ladd stars along with Audrey Dalton, Charles Bronson as Captain Jack, and Hayden Rorke as President Ulysses S. Grant. Filmed in Sedona, Arizona, the story uses elements of the 1873 Modoc War in its narrative, with Ladd playing a white man asked by the U.S. Army to attempt negotiations with Native Modocs who are about to wage war. An early role for Charles Bronson (originally Buchinsky),"
"To Have and Have Not (film) To Have and Have Not is a 1944 American romance-war-adventure film directed by Howard Hawks, loosely based on Ernest Hemingway's 1937 novel of the same name; however, the story was altered for the film. It stars Humphrey Bogart, Walter Brennan and Lauren Bacall in her film debut; it also features Dolores Moran, Hoagy Carmichael, Sheldon Leonard, Dan Seymour, and Marcel Dalio. The plot centers on the romance between a freelancing fisherman in Martinique and a beautiful American drifter which is complicated by the growing French resistance in Vichy France. Ernest Hemingway and Howard Hawks"
"The Moonraker The Moonraker is a British swashbuckler film made in 1957 and released in 1958 and set in the English Civil War. It was directed by David MacDonald and starred George Baker, Sylvia Syms, Marius Goring, Gary Raymond, Peter Arne, John Le Mesurier and Patrick Troughton. The film depicts a fictionalised account of the escape of Charles II, arranged by a foppish royalist nobleman, the Earl of Dawlish, who leads a double life as a roundhead-baiting highwayman called The Moonraker, who already has helped more than thirty royalists to escape to France. After the Battle of Worcester at the"
"Ride in the Whirlwind Ride in the Whirlwind is a 1966 Western film directed by Monte Hellman and starring Cameron Mitchell, Millie Perkins, Jack Nicholson, and Harry Dean Stanton. Nicholson also wrote and co-produced the film. A trio of cowboys, Vern (Cameron Mitchell), Wes (Jack Nicholson) and Otis (Tom Filer), stop to rest for the night at the remote hideout of a gang of outlaws led by Blind Dick (Harry Dean Stanton). In the morning, they find themselves surrounded by a vigilante hanging party and are forced to become fugitives due to a case of mistaken identity. Otis is killed."
"Castle Keep Castle Keep is a 1969 American Technicolor war film combining surrealism with tragic realism filmed in Panavision. It was directed by Sydney Pollack and starred Burt Lancaster, Patrick O'Neal, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Bruce Dern, and Peter Falk. The movie appeared in the summer of 1969, a few months before the arrival of Pollack's smash hit ""They Shoot Horses, Don't They?"". The film is based on a novel by William Eastlake published in 1965. Eastlake enlisted in the US Army in 1942. He served in the Infantry for four and a half years, and was wounded while leading a platoon"
"(1970). There was more typical fare: ""Waterloo"" (1970), ""Jane Eyre"" (1970), ""The Beloved"" (1971), ""When Eight Bells Toll"" (1971), ""Nicholas and Alexandra"" (1971) and ""Kidnapped"" (1971). ""The Last Lion"" (1972), shot in South Africa, offered him a rare lead. It was followed by ""Young Winston"" (1972), ""Escape to the Sun"" (1972), ""Theatre of Blood"" (1973) and ""Tales That Witness Madness"" (1973). Hawkins also produced the film adaptation of Peter Barnes's ""The Ruling Class"" (1972), with Peter O'Toole and Alastair Sim. Hawkins married actress Jessica Tandy in 1932, and the couple divorced in 1940. Together they had one daughter, Susan Hawkins"
"Trooper Hook Trooper Hook is a 1957 American western film directed by Charles Marquis Warren and starring Joel McCrea as the title character and Barbara Stanwyck as the woman he frees from the Indians. The fact that, during her captivity, she has had a son by a much-feared chief makes her situation very difficult. Apache Chief Nanchez orders the massacre of a US cavalry troop surrounded his warriors. Cavalry reinforcements arrive, and Sgt. Clovis Hook takes Nanchez and most of his men captive, though a few escape. The soldiers then torch the Apache village, rounding up the women and children."
"Tucker. And ""Honky Tonk"" is also a 1941 black-and-white Western film starring Clark Gable and Lana Turner. In the 1958 movie ""The Defiant Ones"", Tony Curtis' character John ""Joker"" Jackson refers to himself as ""a honky"". ""Honky"" is a 1971 movie based on an interracial relationship, starring Brenda Sykes as Sheila Smith and John Neilson as Wayne ""Honky"" Devine. ""Honky Tonk"" is also a 1974 Western film starring Richard Crenna and Margot Kidder. Additionally, ""Honkytonk Man"" is a 1982 drama film set in the Great Depression. Clint Eastwood, who produced and directed the film, stars in the film with his"
"love with Stephanie, but destroys the relationship through constant flashbacks to combat. Tracks (1977 film) Tracks is a 1977 American drama film written and directed by Henry Jaglom and starring Dennis Hopper, Taryn Power and Dean Stockwell. The story involves a returned Vietnam veteran escorting a fellow soldier's coffin across the United States for burial. 1st Sgt. Jack Falen (Hopper) returns from the Vietnam War to the United States to escort a friend's body for a hometown burial. Once in the US, Jack travels across the country via train (hence the film's title), where he meets the mysterious Mark (Stockwell)"
"pat cast, keen direction, and tight scripting, 20th-Fox has an absorbing and, at times, spine-tingling drama"". ""TV Guide"" rated it 4/5 stars, and wrote: ""Cregar is absolutely chilling in this Jack the Ripper tale, perhaps the best film made about Bloody Jack."" The Lodger (1944 film) The Lodger is a 1944 horror film about Jack the Ripper, based on the novel of the same name by Marie Belloc Lowndes. It stars Merle Oberon, George Sanders, and Laird Cregar, features Sir Cedric Hardwicke, and was directed by John Brahm from a screenplay by Barré Lyndon. Lowndes' story had previously been filmed"
"between Hong Kong and Red China. As neither nation wants open warfare with each other, each side hires expendable mercenaries. Grigsby recruits his surviving old crew including Joe Jackson, Terry Mitchell, Gordon Mackenzie, and Andy Royal. In addition to fighting Thompson, Grigsby finds time to seduce the wife, Katherine, of his liaison, a British General Charles Whiteley. It was one of a series of films produced by Dimitri de Grunwald, who called ""The Last Grenade""'s commercial prospects ""safe-ish"". The Last Grenade The Last Grenade is a 1970 British war film directed by Gordon Flemyng and starring Stanley Baker and Alex"
"Culloden (film) Culloden (known as The Battle of Culloden in the US) is a 1964 docudrama written and directed by Peter Watkins for BBC TV. It portrays the 1746 Battle of Culloden that resulted in the British Army's destruction of the Scottish Jacobite rising of 1745 and, in the words of the narrator, ""tore apart forever the clan system of the Scottish Highlands."" Described in its opening credits as ""an account of one of the most mishandled and brutal battles ever fought in Britain,"" ""Culloden"" was hailed as a breakthrough for its presentation of a historical event in the style"
"Charles Dickens novel ""Oliver Twist"". After directing several contributions to the BBC's ""Wednesday Play"" anthology series, Ken Loach began his feature film career with the social realist ""Poor Cow"" (1967) and ""Kes"" (1969). Meanwhile, the controversy around Peter Watkins ""The War Game"" (1965), which won the Best Documentary Film Oscar in 1967, but had been suppressed by the BBC who had commissioned it, would ultimately lead Watkins to work exclusively outside Britain. American studios cut back on British productions, and in many cases withdrew from financing them altogether. Films financed by American interests were still being made, including Billy Wilder's"