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[Jon Skagfeld]

Originally posted by Geoff Winnington-Ball
Related and equally interesting: when I was in Wales in 2001 with Mrs WB, we went to the museum for the 24th Regiment of Foot at Brecon. Fascinating place, with artifacts from Rorke's Drift you can actually touch! The museum curator told me they won't sell the ZULU movie in the museum because of the way it portrays Hook; instead they sell ZULU DAWN.

Interesting point..."Zulu Dawn", produced after "Zulu", but historically occurring just prior to "Zulu" was somewhat influenced in its production by the untimely death of Stanley Baker.

The "Zulu Dawn" film was a critical and commercial flop.

"Zulu" took considerable liberties with historical fact (including Henry Hook's incorrect image)...i.e. both Baker and Caine wear uniforms from the turn of the century and the troops wear Slade-Wallace pouches rather than the authentic 1871 Valise Pattern.

Also, incorrectly, the 24th of Foot was called "The South Wales Borderers"...this re-naming didn't occur until 1881, two years after the Zulu War, when the regiment was properly known as the "The Warwickshires".

Wow!...Sorry about that...I've really digressed...but this era is one of my study periods...18 books in my library about these events in 1879.