Everyone loves the film Zulu, and Boxing Day wouldn't be the same in its absence. As a record of an historical event, it doesn't stick entirely to the truth, but it's a fair approximation. One of its major failings, however, is its unfair portrayal of, firstly, Henry Hook as a skiving malingerer - he was nothing of the sort - and, secondly, of Acting Asst. Commissary James Dalton as something of an effete idiot.
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