Film
The Charge of the Light Brigade
United Kingdom- Age rating
- 14
- Director
- Tony Richardson
- Year
- 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.
Top 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
Ben Aris
Lt. Maxse
Micky Baker
Trooper Metcalfe
Peter Bowles
Paymaster Capt. Duberly
Leo Britt
General Scarlett
Mark Burns
Captain Morris
John J. Carney
Trooper Mitchell
Helen Cherry
Lady Scarlett
Christopher Chittell
Trooper
Ambrose Coghill
Lt. Col. Douglas
Howard Marion-Crawford
Lt. Gen. Sir George Brown
Christopher Cunningham
Farrier
Mark Dignam
Gen. Airey
Directed by
Tony Richardson
Written by
John Osborne, Charles Wood, Cecil Woodham-Smith
Produced by
Neil Hartley
