Tony Richardson's 1968 Charge of the Light Brigade with its star cast, lavish sets and location shoots, was one of the most expensive British films ever made. Mark Connelly examines the film, its production, the role of its stars David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave and John Gieldgud, and director Richardson's running feud with the press and the film's subsequent fame. He shows the film to be representative of its time, in its visual style and its use of sixties themes, to discuss how Charge of the Light Brigade, while meticulously reconstructed from authentic sources, reveals the horror of war to a world struggling to come to terms with American involvement in Vietnam.
- ISBN10 6612528249
- ISBN13 9786612528248
- Publish Date 24 April 2003
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 15 June 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint I. B. Tauris & Company
- Format eBook
- Pages 88
- Language English