Zulu (1964 film) and his daughter (Ulla Jacobsson), Zulu King Cetewayo (Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi) is also informed of the great victory. A company of the British Army's 24th Regiment of Foot is using the missionary station of Rorke's Drift in Natal as a supply depot and hospital for their invasion force across the border in Zululand. Receiving news of Isandhlwana from the Natal Native Contingent Commander Adendorff, who warns that an army of 4,000 Zulu warriors is advancing to the British position, Lieutenant John Chard (Stanley Baker) of the Royal Engineers assumes command of the small British detachment. Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead (Michael Caine),
Fail Safe (1964 film) could result in the erroneous go-command depicted in the novel and the movie. "Fail Safe" and "Dr. Strangelove" were both produced by Columbia Pictures in the period after the Cuban Missile Crisis, when people became much more sensitive to the threat of nuclear war. "Strangelove" director Stanley Kubrick, who adapted Peter George's novel "Red Alert", insisted that the studio release his movie first (in January 1964). "Fail Safe" so closely resembled "Red Alert" that Kubrick and George filed a copyright infringement lawsuit. The case was settled out of court. Fail Safe (1964 film) Fail Safe is a 1964 Cold War