Word: zulu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Director Henry King (The Snows of Kilimanjaro) and a crew of 40 were sent to South Africa. There, harassed by "snakes, ticks and other insects," and "in the presence of lions," they shot the backgrounds for the picture. For one scene the studio hired 3,000 Zulu warriors, shipped them by plane and oxcart to the Valley of the Thousand Hills in Natal province, and there built a small city named "Zanuckville" to house them...
...this trouble for nothing. Untamed is a Zulu lulu-the sort of costume adventure that may, in a generation or two, produce a race of moviegoers with their eyes popped out on stalks. The picture offers: 1) a full-dress Irish hunt in full cry after a fox; 2) a formal ball in an Irish country house; 3) the great Irish potato famine of the 18405; 4) the Great Trek of the Boers from Cape Town to the fertile valleys of the interior; 5) the war dance of 3,000 Zulus and their attack on a wagon ring...
Skokiaan (Bulawayo Sweet Rhythms Band; London). A South African number that, after four plays on a Cleveland disk-jockey show, got such a response that it was immediately "covered" by more than a dozen other labels. It is based on an old Zulu drinking song (approximate translation of the title: happy-happy), has a jigging, mambo-like beat. Mercury's version (by Ralph Marterie) is the current best seller. Columbia's Four Lads made the first version with words. Excerpts...
Dempster took to the Zambezi a service rifle. 4,000 rounds of war-surplus ammunition and a wooden dinghy with an outboard motor. He soon met an indignant bull-hippo, who immediately seized both the dinghy and the Zulu helmsman and tore them to pieces. Dempster also found that his hard-nosed service bullets were useless: they ricocheted off a croc's bumpy hide. But the worst snag was the crocodile-birds, a species of African plover. The crocodile's "dental service" is provided by his plovers ("a mating pair ... to each crocodile"), who fly fearlessly into...
...Mifflin ($2); Ballantine Books (35?) For a country with about as many English-speaking people as North Carolina, South Africa exports a high quota of readable novels. The latest on this fall's list is Daphne Rooke's Ratoons. Novelist Rooke (Mittee) takes in the conflict of Zulu against Hindu, Englishman against Boer on a turn-of-the-century sugar plantation, but the drama of racial tensions serves mainly as a backdrop for a melodrama of personal relationships...