


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.

Trevor Howard
Lord Cardigan

Vanessa Redgrave
Mrs Clarissa Morris

John Gielgud
Lord Raglan

Harry Andrews
Lord Lucan

Jill Bennett
Mrs. Fanny Duberly

David Hemmings
Capt. Louis Edward Nolan
Ben Aris
Lt. Maxse
Micky Baker
Trooper Metcalfe

Peter Bowles
Paymaster Capt. Duberly
Leo Britt
General Scarlett

Mark Burns
Captain Morris
John J. Carney
Trooper Mitchell

Helen Cherry
Lady Scarlett

Christopher Chittell
Trooper
Ambrose Coghill
Lt. Col. Douglas

Howard Marion-Crawford
Lt. Gen. Sir George Brown
Christopher Cunningham
Farrier

Mark Dignam
Gen. Airey
Mick Dillon
Highlander

Alan Dobie
Riding Master Mogg
Tony Richardson
John Osborne, Charles Wood
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