"Introducing" Michael Caine!

Rating: 7/10 (19 December 2017)

Although he had been acting in movies since at least 1956, it was not until 1964's Zulu that Michael Caine was officially "introduced".
Caine has a fair-sized role too, but is nevertheless required to play a distinct second fiddle to Stanley Baker throughout and he is also upstaged by some of the other players, particularly Jack Hawkins as a drunken, pushy preacher whose rather dubious theology is treated with a surprising respect.
Ulla Jacobsson is wasted in a small role as the daughter of the Jack Hawkins character..
On the other hand, the movie is full of merciless action and certainly has its share of suspense.
All told. there's no doubting the skill with which Zulu was made, but it's not a film to stir the imagination. (The M-G-M DVD rates 10/10).