The Charge of the Light Brigade
Drama
History
War
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.
1968-04-10
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Cast
Director
Tony Richardson
Trevor Howard as Lord Cardigan
Vanessa Redgrave as Mrs Clarissa Morris
John Gielgud as Lord Raglan
Harry Andrews as Lord Lucan
Jill Bennett as Mrs. Fanny Duberly
David Hemmings as Capt. Louis Edward Nolan
Peter Bowles as Paymaster Capt. Duberly
Mark Burns as Captain Morris
Helen Cherry as Lady Scarlett
Christopher Chittell as Trooper
Howard Marion-Crawford as Lt. Gen. Sir George Brown
Mark Dignam as Gen. Airey
Alan Dobie as Riding Master Mogg
Georges Douking as Marshall At. Arnaud
Andrew Faulds as Quaker Preacher
Willoughby Goddard as Squire
Richard Graydon as Lord Bingham
John Hallam as Officer
Barbara Hicks as Mrs Duberly's Maid
Ben Howard as Trumpeter Pridmore
Rachel Kempson as Mrs Codrington
T. P. McKenna as William Russel
Corin Redgrave as Capt. Featherstonhaugh
Norman Rossington as TSM Corbett
Donald Wolfit as 'Macbeth'
Peter Woodthorpe as Cardigan's Valet
Laurence Harvey as Russian Prince (Uncredited)
Dido Plumb as Tramp (Uncredited)
Natasha Richardson as Flower Girl at Wedding (Uncredited)