Charge of the Light Brigade

I watched “Charge of the Light Brigade” this week.
Purty darn-good movie, I’d say. From 1968.

Dunno how ‘accurate’ it is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Charge_of_the_Light_Brigade_%281968_film%29

Cast

Trevor Howard as Lord Cardigan
Vanessa Redgrave as Clarissa
John Gielgud as Lord Raglan
Harry Andrews as Lord Lucan
Mark Burns as Captain Morris
Jill Bennett as Mrs. Fanny Duberly
David Hemmings as Captain Nolan
Peter Bowles as Captain Duberly
Mark Dignam as General Airey
Leo Britt as General Scarlett
Howard Marion-Crawford as Sir George Brown
T. P. McKenna as William Howard Russell
Mark Burns as Captain Morris
Corin Redgrave as Featherstonehaugh
Alan Dobie as Mogg
Ben Aris as Maxse
Norman Rossington as Sergeant Major Corbett
Willoughby Goddard as Squire
Georges Douking as St. Arnaud

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http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9C06EEDF1E38E134BC4F53DFB6678383679EDE
“….Mr. Richardson (“Tom Jones,” “The Loved One,” “Mademoiselle,” etc.) is a heavy-handed political moralist and an eclectic movie stylist. But he is also such a facile director that he inevitably puts good people and things into his movies.

The performances are excellent. The costumes look like clothes washed and worn in a pre-detergent era.

The actual events leading up to the final charge are likely to be as confusing to the moviegoer as to the participants, but they are visually stunning, and the final impression of the movie—the silence on the body-littered battlefield broken by the buzzing of flies—is suddenly very personal, sad and even relevant.

“The Charge of the Light Brigade,” which opened a reserved-seat engagement last-night at the Fine Arts Theater, is otherwise devoted to lampooning old soldiers who have already faded away. The reasons why are pretty well ignored. “It will be a sad day,” says Lord Raglan, “when England has her armies commanded by men who know too well what they are doing. It smacks of murder.”

This is high, entertaining dudgeon, but it’s approximately 114 years late.