Story :During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led by the overbearing Lord Cardigan, engages in an infamously reckless strategic debacle against a Russian artillery battery.
Cast
Trevor HowardLord Cardigan
Vanessa RedgraveMrs Clarissa Morris
John GielgudLord Raglan
Harry AndrewsLord Lucan
Jill BennettMrs. Fanny Duberly
David HemmingsCapt. Louis Edward Nolan
Ben ArisLt. Maxse
Micky BakerTrooper Metcalfe
Peter BowlesPaymaster Capt. Duberly
Leo BrittGeneral Scarlett
Mark BurnsCaptain Morris
John J. CarneyTrooper Mitchell
Helen CherryLady Scarlett
Christopher ChittellTrooper
Ambrose CoghillLt. Col. Douglas
Howard Marion-CrawfordLt. Gen. Sir George Brown
Christopher CunninghamFarrier
Mark DignamGen. Airey
Mick DillonHighlander
Alan DobieRiding Master Mogg
Georges DoukingMarshall At. Arnaud
Clive EndersbyTrooper
Andrew FauldsQuaker Preacher
Derek FukeTrooper
Willoughby GoddardSquire
Derek GrayOfficer
Richard GraydonLord Bingham
John HallamOfficer
Ian HansonSinging Trooper
Barbara HicksMrs Duberly's Maid
Ben HowardTrumpeter Pridmore
Rachel KempsonMrs Codrington
T. P. McKennaWilliam Russel
Michael MillerMaj.Gen.Sir Colin Campbell
Declan MulhollandFarrier
Roger MuttonCornet Codrington
Valerie NewmanMrs Mitchell
Roy PattisonRSM
Corin RedgraveCapt. Featherstonhaugh
Norman RossingtonTSM Corbett
Dino ShafeekIndian Servant
John TrenamanSgt Smith
Colin VancaoCapt. Charteris
Donald Wolfit'Macbeth'
Peter WoodthorpeCardigan's Valet
Ernest BlythArmy Officer Awaiting Posting (Uncredited)
Harry FielderSoldier (Uncredited)
Laurence HarveyRussian Prince (Uncredited)
Juba KennerleyParty Guest (Uncredited)
James PayneTrooper (Uncredited)
Dido PlumbTramp (Uncredited)
Natasha RichardsonFlower Girl at Wedding (Uncredited)