![]() ![]() Here and forever, the Light Brigade rides. Released October 22nd, 1936, 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' stars Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Patric Knowles, Henry Stephenson The NR movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 51 min, and. debut a memorable one with his stirring, heroic musical score. And legendary Max Steiner makes his Warner Bros. Olivia de Havilland, his Captain Blood leading lady, co-stars. Errol Flynn, fresh off his success as Captain Blood, stars as the leader of the 600 horsemen. His brother, Captain Perry Vickers (Patric Knowles), has swept his fiance. The Amir, Suristan, the 27th Lancers, and Chukoti were fictional entities. The screenplay is based very freely on the historical The Charge of the Light Brigade and the poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson. The film's highlight: the charge itself, a masterful, pulse-pounding nine minutes of thundering hooves and flashing sabers that stands up magnificently against any Hollywood action scene of today - and brought 1936's Best Assistant Director Oscar® to Jack Sullivan for his staging of the vaunted sequence. While stationed in India during the Crimean War, Major Geoffrey Vickers (Errol Flynn) is twice betrayed. The Charge of the Light Brigade is a 1936 American historical adventure film directed by Michael Curtiz (The Kennel Murder Case). "Into the valley of Death rode the six hundred." Inspired by history and Tennyson's poem, The Charge of The Light Brigade tells the tale of a band of British Lancers who challenge an army of 25,000 Russians. ![]()
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