Bare breasts - black is okay but white no way!

Rating: Null/10 (25 December 2006)

Going by the erudite historical nature of all the reviews of this justly famous film I hesitate to bring up the subject of my comment. I saw the film on its first release here in the UK in 1964. I was 14 at the time and I went with my parents and my siblings.
The two scenes which had the biggest impact on me were the final battle scene where the Zulus are shot down in droves as they try in one last desperate attempt to storm the fort. There is a final stunning slow pan across heaps of dead and dying Zulus - I remember being shocked as I have never seen such a graphic scene of the casualties of war before in any other movie. I well remember my sister sitting next to me in the cinema and gasping at it. The other scene - and the focus of this comment - is the mass wedding at the Zulu kraal at the beginning of the film with the missionary and his spinster daughter watching as guests of the chief. I am sorry to say that my tender age of 14 I found this scene hot! I think it was the combination of bare breasted black maidens and muscly warriors. And the fact that we see it reflected in the shocked eyes of the uptight Swedish girl. In a typical piece of double standards of the time bare breasts on black women were perfectly respectable to view by a family audience but white bare breasts-------- well that was a criminal matter!! Can you believe it?! But thats how things were back then in the early 60s. Anyway at the risk of being unPC did anybody else find this scene arousing. Nobody ever seems to mention it but I can't believe I was the only one in the world who got turned on by this particular scene.