Zulu Dawn | |
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Directed by | Douglas Hickox |
Written by | Cy Endfield Anthony Storey |
Produced by | Nate Kohn James Sebastian Faulkner |
Starring | Burt Lancaster Peter O'Toole Simon Ward Nigel Davenport Michael Jayston Peter Vaughan Denholm Elliott James Faulkner John Mills |
Cinematography | Ousama Rawi |
Edited by | Malcolm Cooke |
Music by | Elmer Bernstein |
Distributed by | American Cinema Releasing Orion Pictures (through Warner Bros.[1]) |
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Running time | 117 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $11.75 million[1]($48.3 million in 2023 dollars)[2] |
Zulu Dawn is a 1979 American adventure war film directed by Douglas Hickox and written by Anthony Storey and Cy Endfield, based on Endfield's book of the same name about the historical Battle of Isandlwana between British and Zulu forces in 1879 in South Africa.
A prequel to Zulu (1964), which depicts the historical Battle of Rorke's Drift later the same day, Zulu Dawn features an ensemble cast led by Burt Lancaster, Peter O'Toole, Simon Ward, and Nigel Davenport.
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