The Charge of the Light Brigade

Directed by Tony Richardson

Written by John Osborne, Charles Wood, Cecil Woodham-Smith

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.

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

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Ben Aris

Lt. Maxse

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Micky Baker

Trooper Metcalfe

Peter Bowles

Paymaster Capt. Duberly

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Leo Britt

General Scarlett

Mark Burns

Captain Morris

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John J. Carney

Trooper Mitchell