The Charge of the Light Brigade poster
Director Michael Curtiz
Screenplay Michael Jacoby, Rowland Leigh

The Charge of the Light Brigade

Tagline: Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die

Release Date: 1936-10-20

Duration: 111 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • David Niven
    Captain Randall
  • Errol Flynn
    Major Geoffrey Vickers
  • J. Carrol Naish
    Subahdar-Major Puran Singh
  • Olivia de Havilland
    Elsa Campbell
  • Donald Crisp
    Colonel Campbell
  • Spring Byington
    Lady Octavia Warrenton
  • Nigel Bruce
    Sir Benjamin Warrenton
  • Robert Barrat
    Count Igor Volonoff
  • C. Henry Gordon
    Surat Khan
  • Patric Knowles
    Captain Perry Vickers