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The Charge of the Light Brigade

Duration: 1 hour, 51 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two ScotlandLatest broadcast: on BBC Two HD

Lavish Crimean War epic about the 27th British Lancers, whose journey begins in India and ends in a windswept Russian valley where 600 men charge a Russian artillery post numbering over 20,000. The action sequences are thunderous, especially the final dramatic charge into certain death. Show less

Contributors

Major Geoffrey Vickers:
Errol Flynn
Elsa Campbell:
Olivia de Havilland
Captain Perry Vickers:
Patric Knowles
Colonel Campbell:
Donald Crisp
Captain Randall:
David Niven
Sir Charles Macefield:
Henry Stephenson
Sir Benjamin Warrenton:
Nigel Bruce
Count Igor Volonoff:
Robert Barrat
Surat Khan:
C Henry Gordon

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