![]() I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. Image:Charge of the light brigade.jpeg is being used on this article. Russian, Soviet and CIS military history task force Referencing and citation: criterion not metĪssociated task forces (nations and regions):. ![]() This article has been checked against the following criteria for B-Class status: This article has been rated as C-class on the project's quality scale. Military history Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history Template:WikiProject Military history military history articles To use this banner, please see the full instructions. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks. This article is within the scope of the Military history WikiProject. This article is supported by the War films task force. This article is supported by the British cinema task force. This article has been rated as Start-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. Film Wikipedia:WikiProject Film Template:WikiProject Film film articles To improve this article, please refer to the guidelines. To use this banner, please refer to the documentation. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see lists of open tasks and regional and topical task forces. I thought I knew the argument about the disaster that was due to military incompetence and snobbery and the charge itself had no appeal.This article is within the scope of WikiProject Film. One of the reasons I didn’t go looking for the film in 1968 was because I had read the Cecil Woodham-Smith popular history which the script draws on. If it appeared on TV many times in the 1980s, the ‘Scope print would have been ‘panned and scanned’ and virtually unwatchable. ![]() The film was released in 70mm as well as 35mm as befitted an ‘epic’ in 1968. Alexander Walker in his ‘Hollywood England’ book suggests that United Artists invested $6.5 million, so was it really a ‘British production’? Whatever, it was still a lot of money. I’m not sure about inflation at that point but some of Rank’s failures in the late 1940s were probably close to that figure when adjusted. IMDb gives an estimated budget of $8 million or around £3.4 million. I was surprised by your ‘most expensive British production’ statement. I didn’t go to see this in the cinema in 1968 and it has never held me on the small screen so I can’t make any comment on the narrative as a whole but some of your points do warrant a response I think. Making historical films may be the preserve of the wealthy, but The Charge of the Light brigade takes a steely-eyed view of the yawning gap between the upper and lower classes. The battle-scenes are also striking in that the use of special effects to create large armies had yet to be invented back in 1968 the action involves large groups of extras, and somehow their plainness is more suggestive of the drabness of failure than the more vivid tableaux which might created today.Ī tv staple back in the 80’s, Richardson’s film was somewhat ahead of the curve in terms of providing a personal slant on an historical event it’s certainly got some attitude, and a revisionist perspective that was something of a breath of fresh air in the wake of some rather stuffy British military films. ![]() It’s clear where the cheques were cashed there’s an all-star cast including David Hemmings, John Gielgud, Trevor Howard and Vanessa Redgrave, plus notable cameo roles for Uk comedy legend Peter Bowles and even Donald Wolfit in a walk-on giving us a glimpse of his famous Macbeth. ![]() The jocular, jingoistic mood changes once the action moves oversees, although it was apparently the result of budget restrictions that Richard Williams was pressed into service to create animated bridges to inform the action using political cartoons of the time, Williams creates wonderfully vibrant images that say much about the vainglorious mind-set of the time. The script, written by John Osborne and Charles Wood, plays fast and loose with the history of the ill-fated British cavalry charge, but it does relate to real incidents, like the infamous black bottle affair. Made at a time when the Vietnam war was raging, this version of The Charge of the Light Brigade is a politically astute look at failure and blame, and deserves better than a rather musty reputation suggests. Having won an Oscar for his previous period piece Tom Jones, expectations were high for Tony Richardson’s take on the famous British military catastrophe so much so that it was the most expensive British film ever made when released in 1968. ![]()
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