RE: Old boy's view25 Aug 2022 11:48
Bah-luddy great film ! You don't have to try to too hard to remember the filmscore, either....impending doom, delivered by music ! (Sicario pretty good on that too - for mortal dread & horror). I remember being tickled pink years ago to discover (i was doing the same thing - reading to find how much 'license' had been taken with the film....) - that ' Oi - HOOKeY !' - was an actual character there, pvt Henry Hook. Whether he was quite as er....er.....rapscallion as portrayed by James Booth, well i guess we'll never know ! Peach of a part, played with what can only be called ...............'great GUSTO' !! (edit: yes we will - apparently he was actually a teetotal methodist minister, the company cook, & a 'model' soldier - & his 3 daughters....... 'elderly' women by 1964 - walked out of the movie premiere, in disgust (!) Ended up looking after visitors umbrellas at the British Museum Library, promoted from 'duster', a job he got in part with help from Bromhead.) Bromhead went on to serve in India, died of Typhus in Alllahabd 12 years after the battle. Cracking movie, wicked dialogue, fearsome score!. Isandlwana ?........not so much.