The Charge of the Light Brigade

Anyone who is expecting a factual retelling of the famous charge at the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War had better look to Tony Richardson's film from 1968. This particular Charge of the Light Brigade is a nice action adventure... Full review

Warner Bros. and Michael Curtiz faced a real challenge with their 1936 epic The Charge of the Light Brigade: how to solve the problem of turning the biggest fiasco in British military history into a heroic adventure? Why, ignore history entirely... Full review

The movie starts of as your average period drama with a love triangle and formulaic, typical '30's dramatic moments. However about halve way through the movie its story takes a turn and turns into a delicious action filled epic, with the... Full review

Director Michael Curtiz went all out in this 1936 version of "The Charge of the Light Brigade", and considering the era, he made a darn good job of it - sure, he threw history out of the window, and created a... Full review

As usual, Warner Bros. bent historical facts to provide ERROL FLYNN with some noble heroics in epics like this one and THEY DIED WITH THEIR BOOTS ON. And as in BOOTS, it takes quite a bit of fictional footage to get... Full review

I thoroughly enjoyed this film. But then again, any movie boasting the talents of both Errol Flynn AND David Niven is always going to be a treat. My favourite part of Charge of the Light Brigade is at the ball in... Full review

The premise of this movie is based on the epic poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Historic inaccuracies abound but this isn't the History Channel, so what the hell. Enjoy it for what it is.....if you are an Anglophile, the poem and... Full review

Well, if you want to learn about crimean war or the famous attack, put into immortal words by Tennyson's poem, this one is definitely not for you. Turn to the 1968 GB movie of the same title for this. If you... Full review

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So, it's best to remember him from the years 1935-1945, where he reigned supreme as the world's foremost gallant movie hero.....Vying for the viewer's attention with the action scenes is the film's love-triangle subplot.....But, oh, what a grand piece of filmmaking it is, and as a pure adventure yarn, it's hard to beat.....Maybe it was because he didn't always get along too well with his actors.... ... Full Review

Telephoto shots make the horsemen look crowded and ineffectual, and there are no grand vistas of mighty steeds charging forward The action was fatal to literally dozens of horses, and helped start the first campaign against the mistreatment of animals in movies. ... Full Review

Fortunately for all concerned, THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE is only a movie and not a textbook (heck, the Tennyson's poem doesn't even survive the Hollywood treatment intact). As expected, our hero swears vengeance, but before the end credits roll, the audience experiences a number of terrific action set pieces, as well as love triangle featuring Flynn, Olivia de Havilland and Patric Knowles. ... Full Review

Its dozens of historical inaccuracies aside, The Charge of the Light Brigade is rousing entertainment. Of the many film versions of Alfred Lord Tennyson's narrative poem, 1936's Charge of the Light Brigade has the least relationship to the facts concerning the famous 19th century British military blunder in the Crimea. ... Full Review

October 26, 2004 - Stax here with a special "Great Battles" edition of The Stax Report! Given that yesterday marked the anniversary of both the Battle of Agincourt (1415) and the Charge of the Light Brigade (1854), I thought I'd... ... Full Article

A film review by Christopher Null - Copyright 2001 Filmcritic.com Dramatazation of Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem about the ill-fated Light Brigade, 600 soldiers during the Crimean War (digested version: 1854-56, England and Turkey vs. Russia, best known for the Light... ... Full Article