Which 1964 British film did this quote come from?

Question

"When you take control, old boy, you're on your own. The first lesson , a General, my Grandfather taught me."

Colin050659, it came from a BRITISH film, not an American film.

Answer 1

Zulu

Starring
Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson, James Booth, Michael Caine, Nigel Green, Ivor Emmanuel, Glynn Edwards

Directed by
Cy Endfield

135 minutes, UK (1964), PG

Vintage tale of the attack by 4,000 Zulus on a small British outpost in 1870s Natal. Stars Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins and Michael Caine

"Zulus, sir. Thousands of them..." Well, 4000 to be precise, and all of them heading towards a character-actor-packed stockade at Rorke's Drift, with their spear-points glinting in the sun. Anxiously awaiting them is small regiment of Wales' finest (less than 150 in fact), keeping the British imperial end up in the South African back-country in 1879.
Cy Endfield's lavish paean to British pluck has become as much a part of the bank holiday as wet weather and vomiting up your Easter egg/turkey curry, so it's hard not to feel well-disposed towards it, despite its struggles with the clichés of heroism and flatulent length.
Director Enfield (The Sound Of Fury, Mysterious Island) was among the fimmakers blacklisted by the HUAC in the 50s. He emigrated to Britain, where he made Zulu, his biggest hit. As for the actors, Stanley Baker (who also produced and personally put funding into the film) is the dignified officer, Michael Caine (in his first starring role) his sour lieutenant, James Booth the weak link in the chain of command who ultimately proves his mettle. The Zulus play themselves. And they're good.

Memorable Quotes from Zulu (1964)

Lieutenant John Chard: The army doesn't like more than one disaster in a day.
Bromhead: Looks bad in the newspapers and upsets civilians at their breakfast.
Colour Sergeant Bourne: A prayer's as good as bayonet on a day like this.
Lieutenant John Chard: I came here to build a bridge.
Pte. Thomas Cole: Why is it us? Why us?
Colour Sergeant Bourne: Because we're here, lad.
Reverend Otto Witt: One thousand British soldiers have been massacred. While I stood here talking peace, a war has started.
Pte. Henry Hook: Rourke's Drift... It'd take an Irishman to give his name to a rotten stinking middle o' nowhere hole like this.
Lieutenant John Chard: What's our strength?
Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead: Seven officers including surgeon, commissaries and so on; Adendorff now I suppose; wounded and sick 36, fit for duty 97 and about 40 native levies. Not much of an army for you.
Reverend Otto Witt: There are 4,000 Zulus coming against you. You must abandon this mission.
Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead: Damn the levies man... Cowardly blacks!
Adendorff: What the hell do you mean "cowardly blacks?" They died on your side, didn't they? And who the hell do you think is coming to wipe out your little command? The Grenadier Guards?
Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead: Sixty! We dropped at least 60, wouldn't you say?
Adendorff: That leaves only 3,940.
Colour Sergeant Bourne: It's a miracle.
Lieutenant John Chard: If it's a miracle, Colour Sergeant, it's a short chamber Boxer Henry point 45 caliber miracle.
Colour Sergeant Bourne: And a bayonet, sir, with some guts behind.
Lieutenant John Chard: Mr. Bourne, there should be 12 more men working on this redoubt.
Color Sgt. Bourne: They're very tired, sir.
[Chard whirls around]
Lieutenant John Chard: I don't give a damn! And I want this wall nine feet high, firing steps on the inside. Form details to clear away the Zulu bodies, rebuild the south rampart, keep 'em moving! Do you understand?
Color Sgt. Bourne: Yes sir... very good, sir.
Surgeon Maj. Reynolds: You know this boy?
Orderly: Name is Cole, sir. He's a paper hanger.
Surgeon Maj. Reynolds: Well, he's a dead paper hanger now.
Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead: Now there's a bitter pill. Our own damned rifles!
Surgeon Maj. Reynolds: Orderly, Damn it! Will you keep the flies away. Fan it! Damn you, Chard! Damn all you butchers!
[points towards the fleeing cavalry]
Reverend Otto Witt: The way of the Lord has been shown to us!
Bromhead: You mean your only plan is to stand behind a few feet of mealie bags and wait for the attack?
Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead: Fear certainly dries the throat, doesn't it? I was never so thirsty in my life!
Lieutenant John Chard: I could have drunk a river.
Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead: Was it like this for you? I mean, how did you feel the first time?
Lieutenant John Chard: How do you feel?
Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead: I feel afraid and there's something more. I feel ashamed. There. You asked me and I told you. How was it your first time?
Lieutenant John Chard: Do you think I could stand this butcher's yard more than once?
Lieutenant John Chard: Mr. Witt! When I have the impertinence to climb into your pulpit to deliver a sermon, then you can tell me my duty.
Cpl. William Allen: [both men are wounded but the soldier distributing ammunition has fallen] Can you move your leg?
Pte. Fred Hitch: [flippantly] If you want me to dance...
Cpl. William Allen: I want you to *crawl*. Come on you slovenly soldier, we've got work to do.
Private Henry Hook: [after being ordered to help prepare for the Zulu attack] What for? Did I ever see a Zulu walk down a City road? No! So what am I doing here?
Bromhead: If 1200 men couldn't hold a defensive position this morning, what chance have we with 100?
[Bourne calls the roll after the battle]
Colour Sergeant Bourne: Hitch... Hitch, I saw you. You're alive.
Pte. Fred Hitch: I am? Oh, thanks very much.
Bromhead: I'll tell my man to clean your kit.
Lieutenant John Chard: Don't bother.
Bromhead: No bother... I'm not offering to clean it myself.
Reverend Otto Witt: Death waits you! You have made a covenant with death and with hell. You are in agreement. You're all going to die! Don't you realize? Can't you see? You're all going to die! Death awaits you all!
Bromhead: Fire at will!
Pte. Owen: That's very nice of him.
[to the wounded Hook]
Surgeon Maj. Reynolds: This is going to hurt you a lot more then it will me, I'm happy to say.
Corporal: Heave! Put a bit more weight on that rope you men!
Pvt. John Williams: He's even got a voice like a corporal
Pvt. Fred Hitch: Yeah, sort of like a female hippopotamus in labor.
[to Chard and his team of bridge builders]
Bromhead: Well, chin chin. Do carry on with your mud pies.
Colour Sergeant Bourne: The Lord of Hosts is with us.
Cpl. William Allen: I hope so... as I live and die, I hope so.
Private Henry Hook: Twenty eight days field punishment! No pay! Do you know what he did? He sent my money to my Mrs. Now what did he do that for?
Hughes: Hey, Hooky... who's doing all that shooting? Who do you think?
Private Henry Hook: Who do you think? Mister flamin' Bromhead, shooting flamin' defenseless animals for the flamin' officers' flamin' dinner.
Cpl. Frederic Schiess, NNC: I belong to the Natal Mounted Police.
Pvt. William Jones: Is that true then? He's come to arrest the Zulus.
Adendorff: Haven't you had enough? Both of you! My god, can't you see it's all over! Your bloody egos don't matter anymore. We're dead!
Lieutenant John Chard: You didn't say a thing to help, Bromhead.
Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead: Well, when you take command, old boy, you're on your own. One of the first things that the general - my grandfather - ever taught me.

Answer 2

Zulu Film Quotes

Answer 3

Zulu, directed by Cy Endberg, and starring Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins and, in his first starring role, Michael Caine (who is about the last actor in the film who is still alive).

His character was Lieutenant Gronville Bromhead, who was in charge of the British outpost Rorke's Drift, but who was superseded in command by Hawkins' Lieutenant John Chard, Royal Engineers.

Answer 4

Zulu

Answer 5

"...but if he should hang himself in his jail cell, or some cop shoots him, or if he gets struck by a bolt of lightning, then I'm gonna blame some of the people in this room. And that I do not forgive." --Don Corleone The Godfather

Answer 6

Dr. Strangelove

Answer 7

You mean, "The first lesson my grandfather - a general - taught me," right?

Sounds like "Mary Poppins".

Answer 8

Goldfinger.

Answer 9

Uuuuh.....ZULU? I'm just a copycat today.......sorry!

Answer 10

ZULU

Bring on the welsh singing..............bring it on......

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