The Charge of the Light Brigade
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Overview
During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led by the overbearing Lord Cardigan, engages in an infamously reckless strategic debacle against a Russian artillery battery.
- Production
- Woodfall Film Productions
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Cast
Trevor Howard
Lord Cardigan
Vanessa Redgrave
Mrs Clarissa Morris
John Gielgud
Lord Raglan
Harry Andrews
Lord Lucan
Jill Bennett
Mrs. Fanny Duberly
David Hemmings
Capt. Louis Edward Nolan
Peter Bowles
Paymaster Capt. Duberly
Mark Burns
Captain Morris
Helen Cherry
Lady Scarlett
Christopher Chittell
Trooper
Howard Marion-Crawford
Lt. Gen. Sir George Brown
Mark Dignam
Gen. Airey
Alan Dobie
Riding Master Mogg
Georges Douking
Marshall At. Arnaud
Andrew Faulds
Quaker Preacher
Willoughby Goddard
Squire
Richard Graydon
Lord Bingham
John Hallam
Officer
Barbara Hicks
Mrs Duberly's Maid
Ben Howard
Trumpeter Pridmore
Crew
- Director
- Tony Richardson
- Producers
- Neil Hartley
- Cinematography
- David Watkin
- Composer
- John Addison
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CinemaSerf
June 7, 2025
If you’re looking for Errol Flynn and David Niven here, then you’ll be disappointed. Unlike the Hollywood version of the story from 1936, this one focuses far more on a critique on the command and control structures in the British Army at the start of the Crimean War. It’s principle target is Lord Cardigan (Trevor Howard) who is portrayed as an arrogant and frequently drunken sot without the skills to command himself much less others and one reeking with upper-class entitlement. Unfortunately fo…