The Defence of Rorke's Drift The Defence of Rorke's Drift The Defence of Rorke's Drift is an 1880 painting by Elizabeth Thompson, Lady Butler depicting the 1879 Battle of Rorke's Drift which took place during the Anglo-Zulu War of 1877 to 1879. The battle and the men who fought in it were made famous in the 1964 film "Zulu". The Battle of Rorke's Drift caused a wave of patriotic fever in the United Kingdom and the surviving participants, especially the officers, were feted on their return in October 1879, first going to Windsor Castle to meet Queen Victoria before posing for Elizabeth Thompson at Portsmouth
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