Uploaded April 2011 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
They don't make em like this no more!
Errol Flynn leads The Light Brigade to glory in this 1936 epic. Over 10 people were badly injured filming this scene, but hey-ho! it looks great!
Hollywood was a bit obsessed with the high adventure of the British Empire during the 30s and it all seemed to represent escapism from the memory of WW1 and all its recent horrors. The plot (which is a bit historically inaccurate) works very well in my opinion (It is based on The Massacre of Cawnpore during The Indian Mutiny (1857) when English Women & Children where butchered by mad Indians led by Nana Sahib (represented in the film by Surat Khan's character) and the charge itself which happened during The Crimean War (1855)
They don't make em like this no more!
Errol Flynn leads The Light Brigade to glory in this 1936 epic. Over 10 people were badly injured filming this scene, but hey-ho! it looks great!
Hollywood was a bit obsessed with the high adventure of the British Empire during the 30s and it all seemed to represent escapism from the memory of WW1 and all its recent horrors. The plot (which is a bit historically inaccurate) works very well in my opinion (It is based on The Massacre of Cawnpore during The Indian Mutiny (1857) when English Women & Children where butchered by mad Indians led by Nana Sahib (represented in the film by Surat Khan's character) and the charge itself which happened during The Crimean War (1855)
