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Mood:
- ExcitingAtmosphericSuspensefulCaptivating
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Plot:
- Folk HeroMaster WarriorSoldierLeadershipUninhibited RivalryVengeanceMilitary LifePolitical Unrest more...
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Genres:
- ActionAdventurePeriodWarDramaHistorical
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Time/Period:
- 19th Century
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Place:
- India
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Audience:
- Boys' Night
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Style:
- Epic
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Based on:
- Based on True Story
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- SeriousRealistic
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Look:
- B&W
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The Charge of the Light Brigade, 1936
English
USA
Profile of The Charge of the Light Brigade
The mood of The Charge of the Light Brigade is exciting, atmospheric, and captivating. The plot centers around a folk hero, leadership, and a royal family. It is an action, adventure, and period movie. Stylistically, it is epic. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The setting is India. It happens in the 19th century. Visually, it is black and white. It is originally a true story. It is especially suggested for a boys' night.
Summary of The Charge of the Light Brigade
THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE, a sweeping cinematic marvel loosely adapted from the Alfred, Lord Tennyson poem of the same name, depicts the events leading up to the suicidal 1854 British cavalry attack on Russian forces at Balaklava during the Crimean War. Errol Flynn plays Major Geoffrey Vickers, a dashing British officer who vows revenge on Surat Khan (C. Henry Gordon) after witnessing the despotic ruler's pitiless slaughter of British soldiers and their wives and children at a fort in India.
The pulsating climactic charge, a milestone in cinematic action sequences, is skillfully crafted by uncredited second-line director B. Reeves Eason (who also authored the chariot race in the 1925 version of BEN-HUR and the burning of Atlanta in GONE WITH THE WIND). Flynn furthers his burgeoning reputation as a scintillating leading man, and director Michael Curtiz (CAPTAIN BLOOD) adeptly oversees the creation of an epic dripping with patriotism, pageantry, and heroism.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 20 October 1936 |
| Runtime: | 115 min |
| Awards: | Academy Awards |
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as Major Geoffrey Vickers
as Elsa Campbell
