Reviews

I notice that the majority of the cast are missing from the list given here. If I was associated with this film, I would do all I could to suppress the fact too. The film is not bad enough to be 'good' it is just weak. It can occasionally to be seen on TCM. So if you want to cringe along with several fairly well known names (mainly from the UK), then try and catch it.

Rather like the curate's egg. A basically good film, made overlong and occasionally tedious by animated sequencies. However, these aside, it is more than usually accurate as far as it goes (at least by film industry standards) and often funny. Of the battle itself we see nothing other than the charge, which occured towards its end.

The film ends rather well - even though this means that we are not told who won at Balaclava (a technical win for Britain, France and Turkey, as they achieved their aims and the Russians did not).

It could so easily have been so much better.