The Charge of the Light Brigade
In 1853, as the British and Russian empires compete to gain and maintain their place in the dreadful Great Game of political intrigues and alliances whose greatest prize is the domination of India and the border territories, Major Geoffrey Vickers must endure several betrayals and misfortunes before he can achieve his revenge at the Balaclava Heights, on October 25, 1854, the most glorious day of the Crimean War.
Cast
Errol Flynn
as Major Geoffrey Vickers
Olivia de Havilland
as Elsa Campbell
Patric Knowles
as Captain Perry Vickers
Henry Stephenson
as Sir Charles Macefield
Nigel Bruce
as Sir Benjamin Warrenton
Donald Crisp
as Colonel Campbell
David Niven
as Captain Randall
C. Henry Gordon
as Surat Khan
G.P. Huntley
as Major Jowett
Robert Barrat
as Count Igor Volonoff
Reviews
John Chard
Into the valley of death rode the 600. The Charge Of The Light Brigade is a good military film boasting quality action sequences, it's not a true account of the actual event, and it should be noted there is a disclaimer of sorts at the film's beginning. This telling begins in India in 1850 and...
CinemaSerf
Errol Flynn leads a workmanlike cast in this tale immortalised by Alfred, Lord Tennyson about a seemingly suicidal charge at the battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War. This story is really about empire - British and Russian - and of the manipulation, tactics (and/or, downright bribery) employed...
