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
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