Balaclava | |
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![]() Balaclava at the Royal Alexandra Theatre in Toronto, Canada, after its release as a talkie | |
Directed by | Maurice Elvey Milton Rosmer |
Written by | Boyd Cable Gareth Gundrey W. P. Lipscomb Angus MacPhail Milton Rosmer Robert Stevenson |
Based on | "The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
Produced by | Michael Balcon |
Starring | Cyril McLaglen Benita Hume Alf Goddard Miles Mander |
Cinematography | Percy Strong James Wilson |
Edited by | Ian Dalrymple |
Music by | Louis Levy |
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Distributed by | Woolf & Freedman Film Service |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Language | Silent (English intertitles) (1928 release) |
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. [1] 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. [2] 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.
Portions of Balaclava were reshot under the direction of Milton Rosmer with dialogue written by Robert Stevenson and it was rereleased using a synchronized soundtrack in April 1930. [3] [4]
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