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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.
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Jun 20256/10
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 for the young “Capt. Nolan” (David Hemmings), he manages to upset his commanding general and with a dishonourable discharge looming is praying for some sort of intervention. Rather drastically, that comes in the form of the war into which he is to be despatched. Under the overall command of Lord Raglan (Sir John Gielgud) the cavalry are to be led by Lord Lucan (Harry Andrews) with Cardigan in charge of the Light Cavalry. The Russians are entrenched above the vital port of Sebastopol and so with battle lines drawn, a perilous game of chess now ensues. That game is played with astonishing foolhardiness and bloody-mindedness by a group of men whose rank in society (an Earldom was usually most use
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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
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- Tony RichardsonDirector
- John OsborneWriter
- Charles WoodWriter
- David WatkinDirector of Photography
- John AddisonOriginal Music Composer
- Kevin BrownlowEditor
- Hugh RaggettEditor
- Neil HartleyProducer
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