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The Charge of the Wife Brigade: Directed by Elliott Lewis. With Eve Arden, Kaye Ballard, Herbert Rudley, Richard Deacon. When both Kaye and Eve max out their credit cards their husbands tell them they need to get jobs.
- (15)
- Comedy
- Elliott Lewis
- 1969-04-06
- Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death. Rode the six hundred. “Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns!” he said.
- “Forward, the Light Brigade!” Was there a man dismayed? Not though the soldier knew. Someone had blundered. Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why,
- Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them. Volleyed and thundered; Stormed at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well,
- Flashed all their sabres bare, Flashed as they turned in air. Sabring the gunners there, Charging an army, while. All the world wondered. Plunged in the battery-smoke.
Box office. $1 million (US/ Canada rental) [3] $3.2 million (total) [4] The Charge of the Light Brigade is a 1968 British DeLuxe Color satirical war film made by Woodfall Film Productions and distributed by United Artists, depicting parts of the Crimean War and the eponymous charge. It was directed by Tony Richardson and produced by Neil Hartley.
- $1 million (US/ Canada rental)$3.2 million (total)
- Neil Hartley
- $6.5 million
- John Addison
The Charge of the Light Brigade was a military action undertaken by British light cavalry against Russian forces during the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War, resulting in many casualties to the cavalry. On 25 October 1854, the Light Brigade, led by Lord Cardigan, mounted a frontal assault against a Russian artillery battery which was well ...
- 25 October 1854
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- Russian victory
Resources. “The Charge of the Light Brigade” was written by the English poet Alfred Lord Tennyson in response to a battle during the Crimean War (1853-1855). In this battle, a British cavalry unit—the “Light Brigade”—was commanded to charge against a Russian artillery unit. The order was almost suicidal, and the brigade was ...
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Background. “Charge of the Light Brigade” was first published in The Examiner in 1854. Tennyson became Poet Laureate in 1850, and part of his function was to commemorate major national events. In 1854, during the Crimean War, a disastrous military engagement took place at Balaclava. The poem pays tribute to a brigade of valiant British ...
The Mothers-In-Law: The Charge Of The Wife Brigade
