The Charge of the Light Brigade

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.

• Tony RichardsonDirector
• John OsborneWriter
• Charles WoodWriter
• John AddisonOriginal Music Composer

• Trevor HowardLord Cardigan
• Vanessa RedgraveMrs Clarissa Morris
• John GielgudLord Raglan
• Harry AndrewsLord Lucan
• Jill BennettMrs. Fanny Duberly
• David HemmingsCapt. Louis Edward Nolan
• Ben ArisLt. Maxse
• Micky BakerTrooper Metcalfe
• Peter BowlesPaymaster Capt. Duberly
• Leo BrittGeneral Scarlett
• Mark BurnsCaptain Morris
• John J. CarneyTrooper Mitchell