A Set of 8 no Lobby Cards measuring 10 x 8 inches for the film Zulu! And one Signed By Dickie Owen

Paramount Pictures. 1964. A set of 8 no lobby cards measuring 10 x 8 inches for the film Zulu!

The film and performance that launched the stellar (and still on-going!) career of Michael Caine and Stanley Baker. Caine features in three of the eight images in this fantastic sought after set.

A vintage piece of cinema history .

Zulu is a 1964 British epic war film depicting the Battle of Rorke's Drift between the British Army and the Zulus in January 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War. It shows how 150 British soldiers, 30 of whom were sick and wounded patients in a field hospital, successfully held off a force of 4,000 Zulu warriors. The film is notable for showing the Zulu army as disciplined and governed by strategy.

The film was directed by American screenwriter Cy Enfield and produced by Stanley Baker and Endfield, with Joseph E Levine as executive producer. The screenplay was by Endfield and historical writer John Prebble, based on Prebble's 1958 Lilliput article "Slaughter in the Sun".

The film stars Baker and introduces Michael Caine, in his first major role, with a supporting cast that includes Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson, James Booth, Nigel Green, Paul Daneman, Glynn Edwards, Ivor Emmanuel, and Patrick Magee. Zulu chief and future South African political leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi played Zulu King Cetshwayo kaMpande, his great-grandfather. The opening and closing narration is spoken by Richard Burton.