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The Charge of the Light Brigade

on BBC One London

The feature film starring Trevor Howard, Vanessa Redgrave, John Gielgud, Harry Andrews, Jill Bennett and David Hemmings

On 25 October 1854, during the Crimean War, there took place the most heroic - and suicidal - cavalry charge in military history, when the Light Brigade, commanded by Lord Cardigan, rode into the 'Valley of Death' against the full might of the Russian cannon.

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Contributors

Screenplay:
Charles Wood
Producer:
Neil Hartley
Director:
Tony Richardson
Lord Cardigan:
Trevor Howard
Clarissa Codrington:
Vanessa Redgrave
Lord Raglan:
John Gielgud
Lord Lucan:
Harry Andrews
Mrs Duberly:
Jill Bennett
Captain Nolan:
David Hemmings
Paymaster Duberly:
Peter Bowles
Captain Morris:
Mark Burns
Sir George Brown:
Howard Marion Crawford
Airey:
Mark Dignam
Mogg:
Alan Dobie
Squire:
Willoughby Goddard
William Howard Russell:
T.P. McKenna
Featherstonehaugh:
Corin Redgrave

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