Film · Drama, History, War
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)
Theirs is not to reason why...
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.
- Director
- Tony Richardson
- Writers
- John Osborne, Charles Wood, Cecil Woodham-Smith
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Release date
- April 10, 1968
Cast
Trevor HowardLord Cardigan
Vanessa RedgraveMrs Clarissa Morris
John GielgudLord Raglan
Harry AndrewsLord Lucan
Jill BennettMrs. Fanny Duberly
David HemmingsCapt. Louis Edward Nolan- Ben ArisLt. Maxse
- Micky BakerTrooper Metcalfe
Peter BowlesPaymaster Capt. Duberly- Leo BrittGeneral Scarlett
Mark BurnsCaptain Morris- John J. CarneyTrooper Mitchell
Helen CherryLady Scarlett
Christopher ChittellTrooper- Ambrose CoghillLt. Col. Douglas
Howard Marion-CrawfordLt. Gen. Sir George Brown- Christopher CunninghamFarrier
Mark DignamGen. Airey- Mick DillonHighlander
Alan DobieRiding Master Mogg
