Battle of Rorke's Drift Battle of Rorke's Drift The Battle of Rorke's Drift, also known as the Defence of Rorke's Drift, was a battle in the Anglo-Zulu War. The defence of the mission station of Rorke's Drift, under the command of Lieutenants John Chard of the Royal Engineers and Gonville Bromhead, immediately followed the British Army's defeat at the Battle of Isandlwana on 22 January 1879, and continued into the following day. Just over 150 British and colonial troops successfully defended the garrison against an intense assault by 3,000 to 4,000 Zulu warriors. The massive but piecemeal Zulu attacks on Rorke's Drift came very
The Night Walker (film) The Night Walker (film) The Night Walker is a 1964 American psychological thriller film by genre specialist William Castle, with a screenplay by Robert Bloch, starring Robert Taylor, Barbara Stanwyck, Hayden Rorke, Judi Meredith, Rochelle Hudson, and Lloyd Bochner as "The Dream." The film was one of the last black and white theatrical features released by Universal Pictures, and Stanwyck's last motion picture. Irene Trent is unhappily married to a blind, pathologically possessive millionaire inventor, Howard. Howard and Irene's palatial mansion is packed with an endless assortment of cuckoo clocks, all in perfect synchronization, and Howard tape records all conversations