The Charge of the Light Brigade

(1936)

115 minutes

Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance / War

Directed by Michael Curtiz

Cast:

Errol Flynn as Major Geoffrey Vickers
Olivia de Havilland as Elsa Campbell
Patric Knowles as Captain Perry Vickers
C. Henry Gordon as Surat Khan
David Niven as Captain James Randall
Nigel Bruce as Sir Benjamin Warrenton
Spring Byington as Lady Warrenton
Donald Crisp as Colonel Campbell
Henry Stephenson as Sir Charles Macefield
G. P. Huntley as Major Jowett
E. E. Clive as Sir Humphrey Harcourt
Robert Barrat as Count Igor Volonoff
J. Carrol Naish as Subahdar-Major Puran Singh
Walter Holbrook as Cornet Barclay
Princess Baigum as Prema's Mother
Charles Sedgwick as Cornet Pearson
Scotty Beckett as Prema Singh
George Regas as Wazir
Helen Sanborn as Mrs. Jowett

The Charge of the Light Brigade trailer

The film is set in India during 1856 where Major Vickers is an officer at the 27th Lancers. Their headquarters are assaulted by Surat Khan and his unit who murder British women and children. Vickers is horrified by the outcome and is determined to avenge the people they killed.