![]() On a leopard hunt, Geoffrey earns the Rajah’s eternal gratitude by saving his life. ![]() The Rajah secretly goes over to the Russian side. Clive), an English diplomat, and four accompanying members of the 27th Bengal Lancers, including the soon to be promoted Captain Geoffrey Vickers, that England will no longer fund his rule. Henry Gordon) is the Rajah on the north-west frontier, who learns from Sir Humphrey Harcourt (E.E. It’s the film where Flynn rose to super-stardom. It climaxes in a rousing battle scene of the famous Light Brigade charge, which is done so effectively it makes up for most of the film’s ordinariness. It tells of the fierce action on the north-west frontier of India and of a romantic tale of the brothers Major Geoffrey Vickers (Errol Flynn) and Captain Perry Vickers (Patric Knowles) in love with the same honey, the pretty Elsa Campbell (Olivia de Havilland) who is the daughter of Colonel Campbell (Donald Crisp). Its history is fictionalized and much of it is inaccurate (but that goes with the territory when you make a Hollywood film) the immensity of the British military blunder in the Crimea is glossed over. It tells about the Light Brigade and their foolhardy doomed charge of 600 soldiers during the Crimean War (England and Turkey vs. ![]() Michael Curtiz (“Captain Blood”) helms this black-and-white sweeping historical epic that’s based on Alfred Lord Tennyson’s heroic poem. ![]() “It climaxes in a rousing battle scene of the famous Light Brigade charge.” Clive (Sir Humphrey Harcourt) Runtime: 116 MPAA Rating: NR producer: Hal B. (Major Jowett), Robert Barrat (Count Igor Volonoff), Spring Byington (Lady Octavia Warrenton), E.E. (director: Michael Curtiz screenwriters: based on a poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson/based on a story by Michel Jacoby Michel Jacoby/Rowland Leigh cinematographer: Sol Polito editor: George Amy music: Max Steiner cast: Errol Flynn (Major Geoffrey Vickers), Olivia de Havilland (Elsa Campbell), Patric Knowles (Captain Perry Vickers), Henry Stephenson (Sir Charles Macefield), Nigel Bruce (Sir Benjamin Warrenton), Donald Crisp (Colonel Campbell), David Niven (Captain Randall), C. ![]()
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