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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 9780792852513
ISBN: 0792852516
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 07, 2002
Running Time: 131 minutes
Sales Rank: 12767
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: October 11, 1968
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Editorial Review:
Description:
From director Tony Richardson (Tom Jones) comes this brilliant retelling of tragic events during the Crimean War. Starring Trevor Howard, John Gielgud, David Hemmings and Vanessa Redgrave, this epic political satire is an 'impressive achievement' (Boxoffice) that will forever be revered as movie making at its best. British Captain Nolan (Hemmings) is a devoted officer disgusted with his commander, Lord Cardigan (Howard). Lord Raglan (Gielgud) is a foolish officer with misguided war strategies and a fading memory. Together, they are sent to Turkey in response to a Russian invasion. Driven by arrogance and ineptitude, they send hundreds of cavalry to certain death in aclimax that is both 'harrowing [and] magnificent' (Time).
Amazon.com:
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, 1968. Like America's contemporaneous Vietnam War, Britain's mid-19th-century conflict with Russia in defense of Turkey made less sense the deeper they sank into it; John Gielgud's Lord Raglan keeps referring absentmindedly to the enemy as 'the French'! Aside from a peripheral romantic triangle involving apparently the single sane officer in Her Majesty's army (David Hemmings), his friend (Mark Burns), and the friend's wife (Vanessa Redgrave--Mrs. Richardson), the film is really about the profoundly jingoistic Victorian imagination; transitional animation sequences by Richard Williams seem to plunge us directly into the British national psyche. Somewhat muddled as drama, but irresistibly persuasive in its historical detail and stunning camerawork (David Watkin, Chariots of Fire), The Charge of the Light Brigade is a prime candidate for rediscovery. --Richard T. Jameson
Customer Reviews Average Rating: 
Rating:  - History meets Monty Python
War is a serious business, but not to the makers of this film who every so often inserted an animation sequence most certainly inspired by those done by Monty Python.Except this is not a comedy.Made in 1968 the anti Vietnam war influence is also in evidence.If you do not like someone who is a history buff this would make a good present otherwise avoid this turkey.
Rating:  - Alarming and Understandable
I found this DVD on the Charge of the Light Brigade to be an excellent piece of work.OF course one should read up on the major problems the British and French had in getting to the Crimea.All the actors did a great Job. The arrogance of the true Characters who were in the Crimea and in the War were portrayed with great accuracy by the actors.Couldn't have picked a better bunch of actors to bring this disaster to the screen.I recommend this movie to help understand what happen in the Crimean ... Read More
Rating:  - A true portrayal of British Armylife in 1854...except for...
This 1968 version of the Charge of the Light Brigade was, for the most part, an accurate portrayal of the British Army at the time of the Crimean War in 1854. The uniforms and actions of both officers and rankers are depicted as they were. A few scenes that didn't happen during the war, however, were thrown in for dramatic effect and to create tension among the various characters involved in the film leading up to the ill-fated Charge of the Light Brigade. One episode shown in the movie that was inaccurately ... Read More
Rating:  - TorpanInternational
This film is a piece of historical record,but thats as far as it went.
Im sad that the screen writer want to concentrate on forification ,as much as did.More explaination of the object ---history would have brought it up to a higher standard.
Sorry it didnt go to 3 stars
Rating: - Worst War Movie Ever
This was the worst war movie I've ever seen.
It was hard to sit through and the ending was even worse.
...and I like war movies.
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