Pte. Alfred Henry HOOK V.C. - poor treatment in "Zulu" film (General)

by Roger Griffiths , Sunday, December 28, 2014, 13:12 (3627 days ago) @ Jefff

I am going to go away and try and find the Links to some interesting stuff on Rorke's Drift. Photograph of defenders after the battle. I can't see it on the Royal Welsh's website, but that's probably just a sample of the gallery. Transcription of BBC interview with Colour Sargeant Bourne circa 1935!!!! etc. There are two serious objective websites on the Zulu War.

Trouble is film makers are creative artists, they like historical subjects but then let their imaginations run away with them. The Zulu film was and is an all time winner like Lawrence of Arabia. There's a TV programme re the making of, and it was probably Stanley Baker's widow who said that within two weeks 'we knew we had a winner' and that was pre-release. I think that Stanley Baker was prime mover for the making of the film and he put a Welsh Nationalist slant to it. The 24th (2 battalions) was the South Warwickshire Regiment at the time. Only after 1881 Cardwell reforms did county affiliations start to mean anything.