The Charge of the Light Brigade is a 1936 historical film made by Warner Bros. It was directed by Michael Curtiz and produced by Samuel Bischoff, with Hal B. Wallis as executive producer, from a screenplay by Michael Jacoby and Rowland Leigh, from a story by Michael Jacoby based on the poem The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Lord Tennyson. The music score was by Max Steiner and the cinematography by Sol Polito. The film starred Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland. The story is very loosely based on the famous Charge of the Light Brigade that took place during the Crimean War . In 1854,... Major Geoffrey Vickers and his brother, Captain Perry Vickers , are stationed at the fictional city of Chukoti in India, with the 27th Lancers of the British Army during the period of East India Company dominance over the Indian subcontinent. Perry has secretly betrayed Geoffrey by stealing the love of his fiancee Elsa . During an official visit to local tributary rajah, Surat Khan , Geoffrey saves the rajah's life.
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| Release date: | October 20, 1936 |
| Directed by: | Michael Curtiz |
| Runtime: | 115 Minutes |
| Producer: | Jack Warner, Hal B. Wallis, Samuel Bischoff |
| Editor: | George Amy |
| Cinematography: | Sol Polito |
| Adapted from: | The Charge of the Light Brigade |
| Genre: | Action |