David Hemmings, David Walker, Harry Andrews
Tony Richardson's film about the colossal Crimean War blunder combines his sociopolitical anger with the splendors of a David Lean epic for a fascinating artifact of that boiling-point protest year, 1...( read more
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DVD Release Date: May 7, 2002
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May 1, 2007Two things -
(1) MGM makes by far the crappiest DVDs on the planet.
(2) The inconsequential romance is an established part of the cinematic repertoire. Countless number of scripts have been padded with love stories which have little or nothing to do with the film's narrat...( read more) -
November 19, 2009I liked this movie, it was well written, well acted, the story, that was inspired by real events, was also very interesting, it had some very amusing moments that came from the ludicrous situations.
It is also pretty accurate, historicaly I mean, depicting with great irony the...( read more) -
October 22, 2009It was fine, dandy, and original, but they had to throw in a love triangle subplot that was dry and worthless.
The depictions of battle and wounds is stunningly realistic for the time, but since it is an anti-war movie it makes sense.
David Hemmings towards the end of the movie i...( read more) -
April 2, 2009Tony Richardson's sumptuous, confrontational, and acutely rendered magnum opus, The Charge of the Light Brigade is a scathing indictment, not only of the arrogance and madness of war, but more importantly, of the myopic insularity of class and privilege intrinsic in the monolithi...( read more)
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November 30, 2006my dad loved this film and brought me up on the poam of this it is a good film
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April 20, 2006stupid Cardigin for not listening to Nolan and then he died! that was so sad.
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