
Balaclava
Balaclava is a 1928 British silent war film directed by Maurice Elvey and Milton Rosmer and starring Cyril McLaglen, Benita Hume, Alf Goddard, Harold Huth, and Wally Patch. A British army officer is cashiered, and re-enlists as a private to take part in the Crimean War and succeeds in capturing a top Russian spy. The film climaxes with the Charge of the Light Brigade. It was made by Gainsborough Pictures with David Lean working as a production assistant. The charge sequences were filmed on the Long Valley in Aldershot in Hampshire.
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author | Angus MacPhail Gareth Gundrey Milton Rosmer Robert Stevenson W. P. Lipscomb |
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contentLocation | London Ukraine |
director | Maurice Elvey Milton Rosmer |
editor | Ian Dalrymple |
genre | crime historical |
musicBy | Louis Levy |
producer | Michael Balcon |
productionCompany | Gainsborough Pictures |
publisher | Woolf & Freedman Film Service |
theme | war |