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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.
- 6.0
- 1968
- Released
- 2h 19m
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
Ben Aris
Lt. MaxseMicky Baker
Trooper Metcalfe
Peter Bowles
Paymaster Capt. DuberlyLeo Britt
General Scarlett
Mark Burns
Captain MorrisJohn J. Carney
Trooper Mitchell
Helen Cherry
Lady Scarlett
Christopher Chittell
TrooperAmbrose Coghill
Lt. Col. Douglas
Howard Marion-Crawford
Lt. Gen. Sir George BrownChristopher Cunningham
Farrier
Mark Dignam
Gen. AireyMick Dillon
Highlander
Alan Dobie
Riding Master Mogg
Georges Douking
Marshall At. Arnaud
Andrew Faulds
Quaker PreacherDerek Fuke
Trooper
Willoughby Goddard
SquireDerek Gray
Officer
Richard Graydon
Lord Bingham
John Hallam
OfficerIan Hanson
Singing Trooper
Barbara Hicks
Mrs Duberly's Maid
Ben Howard
Trumpeter Pridmore
Rachel Kempson
Mrs Codrington
T. P. McKenna
William RusselMichael Miller
Maj.Gen.Sir Colin CampbellDeclan Mulholland
FarrierRoger Mutton
Cornet CodringtonValerie Newman
Mrs MitchellRoy Pattison
RSM
Corin Redgrave
Capt. Featherstonhaugh
Norman Rossington
TSM CorbettDino Shafeek
Indian ServantJohn Trenaman
Sgt SmithColin Vancao
Capt. Charteris
Donald Wolfit
'Macbeth'
Peter Woodthorpe
Cardigan's ValetErnest Blyth
Army Officer Awaiting Posting (Uncredited)Harry Fielder
Soldier (Uncredited)
Laurence Harvey
Russian Prince (Uncredited)Juba Kennerley
Party Guest (Uncredited)James Payne
Trooper (Uncredited)
Dido Plumb
Tramp (Uncredited)
Natasha Richardson
Flower Girl at Wedding (Uncredited)Michael Miller
Maj. Gen Sir Colin Campbell
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Reviews
If you’re looking for Errol Flynn and David Niven here, then you’ll be disappointed. Unlike the Hollywood version of the story from 1936, this one focuses far more on a critique on the command and control structures in the British Army at the start of the Crimean War. It’s principle target is Lord Cardigan (Trevor Howard) who is portrayed as an arrogant and frequently drunken sot without the skill