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Balaclava (film)

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'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.'[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0018671/ Balaclava]' at IMDb.com 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.[https://web.archive.org/web/20090114084432/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/142422 'Balaclava'] at bfi.org 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.

Cast



* Cyril McLaglen as John Kennedy

* Benita Hume as Jean McDonald

* Alf Goddard as Nobby

* Miles Mander as Captain Gardner

* J. Fisher White as Lord Raglan

* Henry Mollison as Prisoner's Friend

* Betty Bolton as Natasha

* Robert Holmes as Father Nikolai

* Harold Huth as Captain Nolan, Adjutant

* Wally Patch as Trooper Strang

* H. St. Barbe West as Prosecutor

* Boris Ranevsky as Tsar

* Wallace Bosco as Lord Palmerston

* Marian Drada as Queen Victoria

Production



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.[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/B/Balaclava1928.html Progressive Silent Film List: 'Balaclava'] at silentera.com'[http://www.britmovie.co.uk/films/Balaclava_1928 Balaclava]' at britmovie.co.uk

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