White man's burden

Rating: Null/10 (8 August 2001)

This movie might be seen today as jingoistic stuff. But it's not. Cy Endfield was a South-African liberal, and, within the standards of the time, he aptly managed to give us both the British and the Zulu point of view. The script very carefully avoids any racist cliché. Of course, the battle scenes are all in the favour of the British, and they are truly spectacular. The sequel "Zulu Dawn" is all in the favour of the Zulus, but it lacks the dramatic zest of the original.