
The Charge of the Light Brigade
A sharp, bitter satire of aristocratic incompetence that turns into a harrowing, visceral depiction of a doomed cavalry charge.
- Directed by
- Tony Richardson
- Genres
- Drama, History, War
- Starring
- Trevor Howard, Vanessa Redgrave, John Gielgud
- Tagline
- Theirs is not to reason why...
- 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.
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- Directed by
- Tony Richardson
- Genres
- Drama, History, War
- Starring
- Trevor Howard, Vanessa Redgrave, John Gielgud












