The Charge Of The Light Brigade

by Errol Flynn (Actor), Olivia de Havilland (Actor), Henry Stephenson (Actor), Patric Knowles (Actor), Donald Crisp (Actor), Michael Curtiz (Director)

Overview

This film version of Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem concerns the famous 19th-century British military blunder in the Crimea. Errol Flynn and Patric Knowles are cast as cavalry officers. Indian potentate C. Henry Gordon, angered that the British government has cut off his subsidy, stages a revolt against the English settlements.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	0888574513436
Publisher:	WARNER BROS.DIGITAL DIST
Publication date:	07/18/2017
Edition description:	Subtitled / Full Frame
Sales rank:	3,295
Product dimensions:	5.45(w) x 0.62(h) x 7.53(d)

Editorial Reviews

The film that cemented Errol Flynn's reputation as the most dashing leading man in Hollywood, The Charge of the Light Brigade is a notoriously inaccurate recounting of a key battle in the Crimean War. It's very loosely based on the famous poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson that recounts the battle of Balaclava, in which Russian resisters swamped the British. It depicts the charge as the outcome of an old grudge against an Indian leader who has joined the Russians. Most of the film takes place in India and involves a battle for the affections of a character played by Olivia De Havilland. An extremely popular and successful film, this 1936 Hollywood production was directed by the famed Michael Curtiz, whose second wife married Flynn. A sweeping and monumental piece of entertainment despite its inaccuracies, this Charge of the Light Brigade was superior to a 1968 British version. Curtiz would go on to direct Casablanca.