How an American Saved Michael Caine’s Career
It was quite a leap. Caine later said he believed an English director at the time would never have considered casting somebody with his working-class background as an upper-class British Army officer.
ZULU – THE BLOODING OF THE SPEARS ~ VIDEO
This is particularly evident in the hand-to-hand combat scenes where Stanley Baker (as Lieutenant Chard), Michael Caine (as Lieutenant Bromhead – both real warriors of the real battle) and their men fight off the Zulu warriors in-spite of being heavily outnumbered.
THE TRAIL BENEATH THE YEARS – FAREWELL TO AFRICA ~ VIDEO
It was when the grind and grumble, Of those wagons passed this way, The colour-sergeant’s bark was never meek, The sighing strain of steel, That was bound fast to the wheel, Was melody to rumble and to squeak. . Those tracks are overgrown, Now the earth reclaims its […]
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