Reception
Despite having a large budget and being designed to complement the hugely successful film Zulu, the film was not well received and did not fare particularly well at the box office. Although the film is weighted more towards the British in terms of screen time, its sympathies lie with the Zulus and its anti-imperial stance may have discouraged traditional audiences of historical films. Other films about military defeats, such as Tora! Tora! Tora!, have also tended to be unsuccessful at the box office. An excerpt of the film's score by Elmer Bernstein appears in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds.
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