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Corporal Schiess states to William and Robert Jones that he's a member of the Natal Mounted Police.

Cpl. Schiess was a member of the Natal Native Contingent, a distinctly different branch of the colonial forces.

The Natal Mounted Police did, however, have three men present at the Battle of Rorke's Drift: Troopers Lugg, Green, and Hunter, and Trooper Henry Lugg.
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Perhaps Schiess was just confused by tropical fever: he is correctly assigned to the NNC in Richard Burton's closing voice-over VC roll.
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Trying to keep up with the Joneses.
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Dear All,
I noticed on the link that some of the quotes from the film between 593 and 716 were mixed up. Good job they got it right on the day.

Tony Jones.
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Here's something that came to my attention regarding all the volley fire and "independent fire" we hear in the film . I'm riveted at the scenes when the Zulus are coming on and we hear the command "Fire!" Now I'm not sure but was that a legitimate command to the troops at the time? Weren't those fellows trained to sort of 'count' 1-2-3 inside after hearing "Ready!" "Present!" and then they fired. Mr. Knight wrote about this in Dave Rattray's Guidebook.

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There must have been a shortage of Martini-Henry rifles for this production, for in the climactic charge scenes in which the three ranks of British soldiers deliver volley after volley into the Zulu masses, the soldiers closest to the camera are equipped with lever action Martini-Henry's but those further back in the line can be seen pulling up and back on bolt action rifles.

Even though Lt. Bromhead shot a cheetah, the porters carry a dead leopard back to camp.

When private Hitch is wounded, he is shot in the leg. He was actually shot in the shoulder. The bullet shattered his shoulder blade and he was invalided out of the Army as a result.

Stanley Baker (in the scene where he reloads his revolver) is shown using a Webley Mark VI - not issued until 1915
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Peter.....all that wouldn't have happened if Sheldon Hall had been directing!......... Cool ..right Sheldon????

chin chin....

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Peter H
There's a list of "Zulu" errors somewhere on this forum. I think there are about 35 in total.
Just to be picky though, Bromhead wasn't shown killing the Cheetah. He merely shot at it. Smile

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Thanks Mel thats now 142 Errors in Zulu.
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And to be even more picky (sorry, Mel), if one looks really, REALLY close, one can see a man run from right to left in the middle distant treeline (I actually saw it better at regular speed rather than slo-mo once I knew where to look), and I swear that Bromhead is shooting at him, possibly in an attempt to aid and abet the cheetah's successful escape(?). Does that make it only 141 errors in Zulu now?
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