The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968) Reviews & Ratings

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The Charge of the Light Brigade reviews

The Charge of the Light Brigade holds a 6.2/10 average from 79 TMDB ratings.

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 skills to command himsel…
— CinemaSerf (6/10)

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.

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