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Balaclava at the Royal Alexandra Theatre in Toronto, Canada, after its release as a talkie
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Directed by |
Maurice Elvey Milton Rosmer |
Produced by | Michael Balcon |
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 |
Starring |
Cyril McLaglen Benita Hume Alf Goddard Miles Mander |
Music by | Louis Levy |
Cinematography |
Percy Strong James Wilson |
Edited by | Ian Dalrymple |
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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. A British army officer is cashiered, and re-enlists as 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.
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.