<Li> Ian Ellis as Michael Stenning </Li> <P> Arthur Christiansen, a former editor of the Daily Express, played himself as the editor of the newspaper . Three years before Zulu, a then - unknown Michael Caine played an uncredited police officer diverting traffic . </P> <P> Val Guest says there was a lack of enthusiasm to make the film and he only managed to persuade British Lion to finance it by putting up his profits from Expresso Bongo as collateral . All the finance was British . </P> <P> The film was made in black and white but in some original prints, the opening and closing sequences are tinted orange - yellow to suggest the heat of the sun . It was shot with 35 mm anamorphic lenses using the French Dyaliscope process . </P>

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