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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 HowardLord Cardigan
Vanessa RedgraveMrs Clarissa Morris
John GielgudLord Raglan
Harry AndrewsLord Lucan
Jill BennettMrs. Fanny Duberly
David HemmingsCapt. Louis Edward NolanBen ArisLt. MaxseMicky BakerTrooper Metcalfe
Peter BowlesPaymaster Capt. DuberlyLeo BrittGeneral Scarlett
Mark BurnsCaptain MorrisJohn J. CarneyTrooper Mitchell
Helen CherryLady Scarlett
Christopher ChittellTrooperAmbrose CoghillLt. Col. Douglas