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(1968 film)\n\n*The Charge of the Light Brigade* is a 1968 British war film directed by [Tony Richardson](https://www.edgepedia.org/tony-richardson) that depicts the events leading to the near-destruction of a British cavalry brigade at the [Battle of Balaclava](https://www.edgepedia.org/battle-of-balaclava) during the [Crimean War](https://www.edgepedia.org/crimean-war). Produced by Neil Hartley and written by Charles Wood, it stars Trevor Howard as Lord Cardigan, Vanessa Redgrave, and John Gielgud as Lord Raglan.[1](https://www.bfi.org.uk/film/bf3bae96-0d9b-5eea-8728-7b933418ff09/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade) The film is a revisionist treatment that blames the disaster on the incompetence and arrogance of the British high command, in deliberate contrast to the heroic 1936 Hollywood version starring Errol Flynn.[2](https://www.tcm.com/articles/236418/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade-1968)\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Director / producer / writer | Tony Richardson; Neil Hartley; Charles Wood, from an uncredited first draft by John Osborne[1](https://www.bfi.org.uk/film/bf3bae96-0d9b-5eea-8728-7b933418ff09/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade) • [3](https://davidwatkin.co.uk/charge-of-the-light-brigade/) |\n| Principal cast | Trevor Howard (Lord Cardigan), Vanessa Redgrave (Mrs. Clarissa Morris), John Gielgud (Lord Raglan), Harry Andrews (Lord Lucan), David Hemmings (Capt. Louis Edward Nolan), Jill Bennett (Mrs. Fanny Duberly)[2](https://www.tcm.com/articles/236418/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade-1968) |\n| Budget | $8 million from United Artists, a very large sum for a British film at the time and the studio's major release for 1968[2](https://www.tcm.com/articles/236418/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade-1968) |\n| Running time | 141 minutes (BFI); the BBFC classified a cinema version of 138m 40s in April 1968[1](https://www.bfi.org.uk/film/bf3bae96-0d9b-5eea-8728-7b933418ff09/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade) • [4](https://www.bbfc.co.uk/release/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade-q29sbgvjdglvbjpwwc0ynjk4otk) |\n| Premiere | 10 April 1968, Odeon Leicester Square, London, in the presence of the Duke of Edinburgh[5](https://elcv.art.br/santoandre/biblioteca/_em_ingles/film_and_cinema_eBooks_collection/Past%20and%20Present%20-%20National%20Identity%20and%20the%20British%20Historical%20Film.pdf) |\n| Distinctive feature | Animated sequences by Richard Williams, modeled on 19th-century political cartoons, providing historical context between scenes[2](https://www.tcm.com/articles/236418/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade-1968) |\n| Reception | Mixed reviews and box office failure; nominated for six BAFTA Film Awards[2](https://www.tcm.com/articles/236418/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade-1968) • [3](https://davidwatkin.co.uk/charge-of-the-light-brigade/) |\n\n## Spoilers\n\n### Plot\n\nEngland, the early 1850s. The cavalry is a gentlemen's club with horses, and the film opens among the officers of the 11th Hussars, where promotion runs on birth and tailoring. Captain Louis Nolan ([David Hemmings](https://www.edgepedia.org/david-hemmings)), an Irish-born professional trained in the practical cavalry tradition, arrives with a low opinion of the whole arrangement. His chief target is the regiment's commander, James Thomas Brudenell, Lord Cardigan ([Trevor Howard](https://www.edgepedia.org/trevor-howard)), a martinet who cares passionately about regimental buttons and not at all about the men wearing them. Cardigan's feud with his brother-in-law, Lord Lucan ([Harry Andrews](https://www.edgepedia.org/harry-andrews)), commander of the cavalry division, is already the army's worst-kept secret, and Richardson milks it as a running joke: a command structure paralyzed by a family quarrel.\n\nNolan's other entanglement is with Clarissa ([Vanessa Redgrave](https://www.edgepedia.org/vanessa-redgrave)), the young wife of a fellow officer. Their affair is conducted with extreme discretion, glances across regimental rooms and stolen moments in the shadow of the regiment, and it never quite catches fire, but it gives Nolan a private life to be humiliated out of. In a flogging scene, a sergeant major compromised by Cardigan is broken to the ranks, one of the more brutal and graphic floggings in any film. The pomp is the surface; the cruelty is the system.[13](https://www.sleuthsayers.org/2020/10/the-charge-of-light-brigade-1968.html)\n\nThe live action is punctuated by satirical animated interludes designed by Richard Williams in the style of Victorian caricature, cartoons of pompous generals and bloated bureaucracy that keep breaking the film's own illusion. This history was an absurdity long before it was a tragedy.\n\nWar with Russia is declared and the army ships to the Crimea, where the pampered institution meets cholera, rotted supplies, neglected horses, and an enemy with the discourtesy to shoot back. At the top sits Lord Raglan ([John Gielgud](https://www.edgepedia.org/john-gielgud)), the aged commander-in-chief, gloriously nasal and two decades stale, who issues orders referring to the enemy as if they were still the French allies of Waterloo. The film marches toward Balaclava, October 1854, where the miscommunication that killed the 600 is built in advance: Raglan's orders are ill-phrased, Cardigan and Lucan are barely on speaking terms, and nobody in the chain of command will ask a stupid, sensible question.[14](http://davidmhart.com/liberty/Film/WarFilms/StudyGuides/ChargeOfLightBrigade.html)\n\n**The charge itself is the film's centerpiece, and Richardson stages it as an almost unbearably long, wordless descent into slaughter.** Raglan, watching from a high vantage point, issues an order to recover some captured guns that reads ambiguously; Cardigan, viewing the battlefield from lower ground, cannot see the main Russian position and interprets the directive as sending the Light Brigade straight down the valley into the massed artillery. Nolan, carrying the order, realizes the mistake and tries to alert them, but a shell explodes overhead and kills him almost as soon as the advance begins, his dying scream still trying to warn the cavalry.[15](https://filmfreedonia.com/2011/04/25/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade-1968/) Richardson then alternates distant, painterly shots reproducing the serene view of the observing commanders and reporters with telephoto lenses, forced perspective, and rapid editing that plunges into the fray: blood, explosions, dust, men and horses simply falling, in takes long enough for spectacle to curdle into horror. The cutting leaps from the exploding shell to Nolan being hit to a shocked close-up of Raglan watching through his telescope from afar. There are no heroic speeches and no triumphant music.[15](https://filmfreedonia.com/2011/04/25/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade-1968/)\n\nAfterward comes the film's bitterest joke. Cardigan, having led the charge and ridden back out of it, demands to know where Nolan is so he can bust him for screaming \"like a woman,\" and is informed that he just rode over his dead body, a line the film notes is absolutely true.[15](https://filmfreedonia.com/2011/04/25/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade-1968/) The picture ends with the generals arguing over who will take the blame for the miscued command, each denying any share of it, while Tennyson's noble verse sits over the wreckage, waiting for the poets to make sense of what the officers cannot.[16](https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150145629)\n\n### Characters\n\n**Lord Cardigan (Trevor Howard)** carries the film. He is not a fool played for easy laughs but a man of genuine, self-serious conviction, proud of his tailoring, his riding school, and his grievance against Lucan, and Howard lets you see the human vanity inside the caricature.\n\n**Captain Louis Nolan (David Hemmings)**, straight off Blow-Up, is the coiled, furious professional who knows exactly how badly the British horse is led and cannot stop saying so. His scenes with Howard crackle because both actors understand the class war underneath the military one. Some critics have found him too languid in the pivotal role.[13](https://www.sleuthsayers.org/2020/10/the-charge-of-light-brigade-1968.html)\n\n**Lord Raglan (John Gielgud)** is the commander-in-chief, courteous, elderly, and fighting the last war, issuing orders that read like Waterloo dispatches.\n\n**Lord Lucan (Harry Andrews)** is Cardigan's brother-in-law and enemy, whose feud with him paralyzes the cavalry command.\n\n**Clarissa (Vanessa Redgrave)** is the officer's wife in a discreet, doomed affair with Nolan, given little to do beyond look wounded, but she gives Nolan something to lose.\n\n### Interpretations and controversies\n\nRichardson refused a critics' screening, calling English critics \"intellectual eunuchs,\" which set the tone for a divided reception.[17](https://lukehoney.substack.com/p/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade-1968) The film is widely read as a politically astute look at failure and blame, made while the [Vietnam War](https://www.edgepedia.org/vietnam-war) was raging, with Balaclava standing in for any war run by an incompetent establishment.[18](https://film-authority.com/2022/02/18/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade/)\n\n### Sequels, prequels, and universe\n\nNone. The film stands apart from the gung-ho, historically inaccurate 1936 Hollywood version with [Errol Flynn](https://www.edgepedia.org/errol-flynn), which it was made explicitly against.[19](https://thespinningimage.co.uk/cultfilms/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=4960)\n\n## Origins and production\n\nRichardson had worked on the idea for years with the playwright [John Osborne](https://www.edgepedia.org/john-osborne), his collaborator on *Look Back in Anger* and *Tom Jones* (1963). Seeking a more honest treatment of the disastrous charge than Warner Bros.' 1936 version had given, they turned to Cecil Woodham-Smith's revisionist history *The Reason Why* (1953), but its screen rights were tied up, held at the time by the actor [Laurence Harvey](https://www.edgepedia.org/laurence-harvey), who hoped to star in his own version of the events. The filmmakers instead hired a researcher to ensure that every historical reference in Osborne's script could be documented from public-domain sources.[2](https://www.tcm.com/articles/236418/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade-1968) The final screenplay was credited to Charles Wood, working from Osborne's uncredited first draft.[3](https://davidwatkin.co.uk/charge-of-the-light-brigade/)\n\nDespite recent Woodfall box office failures, [United Artists](https://www.edgepedia.org/united-artists) backed the project with a budget of $8 million.[2](https://www.tcm.com/articles/236418/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade-1968) Richardson had hoped to cast [Rex Harrison](https://www.edgepedia.org/rex-harrison) as Lord Cardigan, but negotiations collapsed after Harrison read a gossip column saying Richardson had also approached [George C. Scott](https://www.edgepedia.org/george-c-scott); the part went to Trevor Howard.[2](https://www.tcm.com/articles/236418/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade-1968) The casting was something of a family affair: Richardson's wife Vanessa Redgrave took one of the few major female roles, alongside her mother Rachel Kempson, her brother Corin Redgrave, and her daughters Joely and Natasha Richardson, the latter in her film debut. Jill Bennett, Osborne's wife, played the other major female role.[2](https://www.tcm.com/articles/236418/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade-1968)\n\n**Shooting.** The barracks scenes of the first half were filmed at Aldershot in Hampshire, while the Crimea scenes, including the charge itself, were filmed in Turkey, at a location that was not the actual battle site but looked almost exactly like it. The Turkish army cooperated with the production, its cavalry doubling for the British on screen.[3](https://davidwatkin.co.uk/charge-of-the-light-brigade/) • [2](https://www.tcm.com/articles/236418/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade-1968) Filming was troubled: Richardson fired a stunt coordinator whose swordplay killed several horses, an earthquake destroyed the hotel used by the production, and David Hemmings was temperamental on set.[6](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/charge_of_the_light_brigade_1968) The production flew in hairdressers from Rome, Paris, and London to make wigs and fake beards, and cinematographer David Watkin combed Europe for the oldest lenses he could find, adapting them for widescreen photography to capture the look of 19th-century photography.[2](https://www.tcm.com/articles/236418/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade-1968)\n\n## Style and the Williams animation\n\nTo supply the political background of the war, Richardson engaged the animator Richard Williams to create sequences modeled on 19th-century political cartoons, in the graphic style of *Punch* magazine. These interludes satirized the jingoistic press of the period and linked the film's disconnected episodes; even with two years to work, Williams was still finishing the animation on the day of the premiere.[2](https://www.tcm.com/articles/236418/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade-1968) • [3](https://davidwatkin.co.uk/charge-of-the-light-brigade/) Richardson also insisted on 19th-century slang throughout the script.[2](https://www.tcm.com/articles/236418/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade-1968)\n\nThe film's structure is episodic, moving from a satirical portrait of stratified Victorian England to the cholera-ravaged Crimea, the victory at the Alma that the cavalry was not allowed to exploit, and finally the charge itself, in which a vague written order from the aging Lord Raglan sends Cardigan's brigade into the wrong valley against Russian guns.[2](https://www.tcm.com/articles/236418/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade-1968) • [7](https://filmref.com/2017/12/22/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade-1968/)\n\n## Reception\n\nRichardson refused to show the picture to the press before its release, and wrote to *The Times* criticizing English critics as \"spoilt and demanding children\" with \"the least good will in the world\".[6](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/charge_of_the_light_brigade_1968) The film opened to mixed reviews, particularly in the United States. Numerous reviewers welcomed the film's revisionist approach to history, yet Pauline Kael, writing in *The New Yorker* in October 1968, contended that Richardson dwelt so intently on the generals' failings that the heroism surrounding the episode vanished from the picture; she described it as \"a strange epic: a quasi absurdist, theatre-of-cruelty epic with modern revue humor\".[2](https://www.tcm.com/articles/236418/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade-1968) • [8](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1968/10/12/war-as-vaudeville) The best reviews went to the cast and to Williams' animation.[2](https://www.tcm.com/articles/236418/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade-1968) A contemporary New Zealand Listener review found the film lacking form and coherence but praised Gielgud's feeble, confused Lord Raglan and Howard's Cardigan as performances that made the film worthwhile.[9](https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/NZLIST19680830.2.38.1.2)\n\nThe film was a box office disappointment relative to its cost.[2](https://www.tcm.com/articles/236418/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade-1968) A later scholarly account describes the critical consensus as mixed but leaning positive, with the box office failure, on-set problems, and the split between Richardson and Osborne contributing to the film's fading into relative obscurity.[10](https://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/25230/4/kmf-TheBritishWarFilm2links.pdf) It nevertheless received six BAFTA nominations[3](https://davidwatkin.co.uk/charge-of-the-light-brigade/), and later assessments have been warmer: Time Out calls it \"bitty, yet fascinating\", praising the climactic carnage and the performances of Gielgud and Howard,[11](https://www.timeout.com/movies/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade) and the TCM essay notes that it has developed faithful fans who regard it as ahead of its time politically and stylistically.[2](https://www.tcm.com/articles/236418/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade-1968)\n\n## Historical stance and context\n\nThe film presents the charge as the product of an inept chain of command and aristocratic arrogance, laying blame above all on Lord Raglan's incompetence and Lord Cardigan's vacuity, and it draws on the historical record established by Woodham-Smith rather than the invented romance of the 1936 film.[12](https://neovictorianstudies.com/article/download/236/225/903) Its anti-military attitude coincided with protests against the Vietnam War in the United States and Britain, and critics have read the film as partly an allegory of that conflict; Time Out notes that \"Vietnam's never far from the equation\".[2](https://www.tcm.com/articles/236418/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade-1968) • [11](https://www.timeout.com/movies/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade) This positioning may have cost it audiences on both sides, caught between the counterculture crowd and older moviegoers drawn to historical spectacle.[2](https://www.tcm.com/articles/236418/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade-1968)\n\n## References\n\n1. [The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968), British Film Institute](https://www.bfi.org.uk/film/bf3bae96-0d9b-5eea-8728-7b933418ff09/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade)\n2. [Frank Miller, \"The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)\", Turner Classic Movies](https://www.tcm.com/articles/236418/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade-1968)\n3. [Tony Richardson's Charge of the Light Brigade, The David Watkin Archive](https://davidwatkin.co.uk/charge-of-the-light-brigade/)\n4. [The Charge Of The Light Brigade, British Board of Film Classification](https://www.bbfc.co.uk/release/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade-q29sbgvjdglvbjpwwc0ynjk4otk)\n5. [National Identity and the British Historical Film (Past and Present)](https://elcv.art.br/santoandre/biblioteca/_em_ingles/film_and_cinema_eBooks_collection/Past%20and%20Present%20-%20National%20Identity%20and%20the%20British%20Historical%20Film.pdf)\n6. [The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968), Rotten Tomatoes](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/charge_of_the_light_brigade_1968)\n7. [The Charge of the Light Brigade, 1968, Strictly Film School](https://filmref.com/2017/12/22/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade-1968/)\n8. [Pauline Kael, \"War as Vaudeville\", The New Yorker, October 12, 1968](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1968/10/12/war-as-vaudeville)\n9. [\"The Charge of the Light Brigade\", New Zealand Listener, 30 August 1968](https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/NZLIST19680830.2.38.1.2)\n10. [The British War Film (dissertation, University of Pittsburgh)](https://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/25230/4/kmf-TheBritishWarFilm2links.pdf)\n11. [The Charge of the Light Brigade review, Time Out](https://www.timeout.com/movies/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade)\n12. [Neo-Victorian Studies 3:2 (2010)](https://neovictorianstudies.com/article/download/236/225/903)\n13. [https://www.sleuthsayers.org/2020/10/the-charge-of-light-brigade-1968.html](https://www.sleuthsayers.org/2020/10/the-charge-of-light-brigade-1968.html)\n14. [http://davidmhart.com/liberty/Film/WarFilms/StudyGuides/ChargeOfLightBrigade.html](http://davidmhart.com/liberty/Film/WarFilms/StudyGuides/ChargeOfLightBrigade.html)\n15. [https://filmfreedonia.com/2011/04/25/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade-1968/](https://filmfreedonia.com/2011/04/25/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade-1968/)\n16. [https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150145629](https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150145629)\n17. [https://lukehoney.substack.com/p/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade-1968](https://lukehoney.substack.com/p/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade-1968)\n18. [https://film-authority.com/2022/02/18/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade/](https://film-authority.com/2022/02/18/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade/)\n19. 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