SqueezeMe: It's interesting that you should make that mistake with the date because the film begins with a speech by Richard Burton - in the form of an official communication - telling of the British defeat at Isandlwana. That speech was broadcast on BBC radio around the time of the film's release and the grandmother of a friend of mine thought she was listening to a current news item! She took some convincing that the events related in the broadcast were 90 years or so old.