The Charge of the Light Brigade



The Charge of the Light Brigade is a 1936 historical film made by Warner Bros. It was directed by Michael Curtiz and produced by Samuel Bischoff, with Hal B. Wallis as executive producer, from a screenplay by Michael Jacoby and Rowland Leigh, from a story by Michael Jacoby based on the poem The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Lord Tennyson. The music score was by Max Steiner and the cinematography by Sol Polito.

The film starred Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland. The story is very loosely based on the famous Charge of the Light Brigade that took place during the Crimean War (1853-56).

Cast

 * Errol Flynn as Major Geoffrey Vickers
 * Olivia de Havilland as Elsa Campbell
 * Patric Knowles as Captain Perry Vickers
 * C. Henry Gordon as Surat Khan
 * David Niven as Captain James Randall
 * Nigel Bruce as Sir Benjamin Warrenton
 * Spring Byington as Lady Warrenton
 * Donald Crisp as Colonel Campbell
 * Henry Stephenson as Sir Charles Macefield
 * G. P. Huntley as Major Jowett
 * E. E. Clive as Sir Humphrey Harcourt
 * Robert Barrat as Count Volonoff
 * J. Carrol Naish as Singh