"The Light Cavalry Brigade, though circumstances never satisfactorily explained, now charged the Russian field batteries to their front, riding up a narrow mile-long valley, exposed at the same time to fire from the captured Turkish guns on their right flank and other Russian guns on their left. My vade mecum on battles, the Dupuy's "Encyclopedia of Military History," describes the engagement this way. Wallis, Harry Warner and Jack Warner was compellingly realized by Michael Curtiz. The motion picture produced in big budget by Hal B. Breathtaking score by the maestro Max Steiner in his first one for Warner Brothers. Superb and evocative cinematography in black and white by Sol Polito, though is also shown in a lousy computer-colored version. For the filming of the climactic charge, 125 horses were trip-wired of those, 25 were killed outright or had to be put down afterward. The picture climaxes with one of the most dramatic and immortal cavalry charges in history. Henry Gordon, Henry Stephenson, Nigel Bruce, Donald Crisp, EE Clive, Roger Barrat and J. The support cast is frankly excellent such as Patrick Knowles, David Niven, C. The success of this film set the seal on Olivia and Errol Flynn's super-stardom. The second of nine movies made together by Warner Brothers' romantic couple Olivia de Havilland and Errol Flynn, here playing star-crossed lovers. The original script used the real-life siege of a British fort at Cawnpore, and subsequent massacre of its survivors, during the Sepoy Rebellion -, a nationwide mutiny of Indian soldiers in the British army - as the reason for the famous Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava during the Crimean War. Although during the filming of the charge sequence, a stuntman was killed when he fell off his horse and landed on a broken sword that was lying on the battlefield. Exquisitely made battle scenes being magnificently directed by action specialist B. The film was originally set entirely in India, but the Crimean War was added due to fears by Warner Brothers that the story was too similar to Paramount's The lives of a Bengali Lancer (1935). This epic movie contains feats, a romantic love story, adventures, thundering action, thrills, and historical events. Good film with lavish production values dealing with events leading up to British involvement in Crimean war with stunning final battle sequence. Honor the charge they made ¡ Honor the Light Brigade, Noble Six Hundred ¡. When can their glory fade ? O the wild charge they made ¡ All the world'd. ¨Forward, the Light Brigade ¡ Charge of the guns¨ he said, into the valley of death rode the six hundred. Cannon to right of them, cannon to left of them, cannon in front of them volley'd and thunder'd. 1856." It is based on Lord Tennyson's famous poem : Half a league, half a league onward, all in the valley of death rode the six hundred. The film is dedicated "to the officers and men of the Light Brigade who died victorious in a gallant charge at Balaklava for Queen and Country - A.D. As military minds blunder and six hundred Britishers, sabers flashing, ride to their deaths. Later on, occurs the siege of Sevastopol and the fierce ¨Battle of Balaklava¨ on Octowhich climaxed with the heroic, but near-disastrous cavalry charge made by the British Light Brigade against a Russian artillery battery in a small valley which resulted in the near-destruction of the brigade. In Balaklava is the Allied Headquarters, Army of the Crimea, and the new post of the 27th Lancers. This drama deals with the chronicle of events that led to the British involvement in the Crimean War against Russia. International events, however, were soon to overshadow it in the world at large for the hounds of war had been unleashed and England was pouring troops into the Crimea to oppose the Russian hordes, the wave of war preparations swept into Calcuta. After that, a massacre takes place at Chukoti, it seared into the minds of the 27th Lancers, a livid scar never to heal. At the beginning the tale is set in Suristan, it could be seen as part of the "Great game" that was fought for nearly a century between the British and Russian empires for control in the Middle East.
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