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
as Lord Cardigan
Vanessa Redgrave
as Mrs Clarissa Morris
John Gielgud
as Lord Raglan
Harry Andrews
as Lord Lucan
Jill Bennett
as Mrs. Fanny Duberly
David Hemmings
as Capt. Louis Edward Nolan
Ben Aris
as Lt. Maxse
Micky Baker
as Trooper Metcalfe
Peter Bowles
as Paymaster Capt. Duberly
Leo Britt
as General Scarlett
Mark Burns
as Captain Morris
John J. Carney
as Trooper Mitchell
