La charge de la brigade légère

Titre original : The Charge of the Light Brigade

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Olivia de Havilland and Errol Flynn in La charge de la brigade légère (1936)

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Suite au conflit impliquant l'Angleterre et la Russie, un officier des Indes est chargé de partir en Arabie pour fournir l'armée en chevaux. Pendant ce temps, la garnison est attaquée par le... Tout lireSuite au conflit impliquant l'Angleterre et la Russie, un officier des Indes est chargé de partir en Arabie pour fournir l'armée en chevaux. Pendant ce temps, la garnison est attaquée par le sultan Surat Khan, nouvel allié des Russes.Suite au conflit impliquant l'Angleterre et la Russie, un officier des Indes est chargé de partir en Arabie pour fournir l'armée en chevaux. Pendant ce temps, la garnison est attaquée par le sultan Surat Khan, nouvel allié des Russes.

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Récompensé par 1 Oscar
- 1 victoire et 3 nominations au total

Anecdotes
For the filming of the climactic charge, one hundred twenty-five horses were trip-wired. Of those, twenty-five were killed outright or had to be put down afterward. The resulting public furor caused the US Congress to pass laws to protect animals used in motion pictures. Star Errol Flynn, a horseman, was so outraged by the number of horses injured and killed during the charge, and by director Michael Curtiz's seeming indifference to the carnage, that at one point as he was arguing with Curtiz about it, he could contain himself no more and actually physically attacked him. They were pulled apart before any serious damage was done, but it put a permanent freeze on their relationship; even though they made subsequent films together, they despised each other and would speak only when necessary on the set.

Gaffes
After the massacre, Flynn sympathetically listens to Major Singh crying over the body of his murdered son Prema who is clearly wiggling his toes in the foreground of the scene.

Citations
[first lines]
Sir Humphrey Harcourt: How do you fellows manage to look so comfortably, Vickers?
Major Geoffrey Vickers: We may look it Sir, but we're not. They say the first forty years are about the hottest up here on the frontier, after that you get used to it.
Sir Humphrey Harcourt: Really?

Crédits fous
Opening credits: This production has its basis in history. The historical basis, however, has been fictionized for the purposes of this picture and the names of many characters, many characters themselves, the story, incidents and institutions, are fictitious. With the exception of known historical characters, whose actual names are herein used, no identification with actual persons, living or dead, is intended or should be inferred.

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Also available in a computer colorized version.

Connexions
Featured in Hollywood and the Stars: The Swashbucklers (1964)

Bandes originales
God Save the Tsar
(uncredited)
Music by Alexis Lvov
[The Russian national anthem from 1833 to 1917 played as part of the score during the charge at Balaklava]

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Fictional version of historical charge is highly entertaining...

As usual, Warner Bros. bent historical facts to provide ERROL FLYNN with some noble heroics in epics like this one and THEY DIED WITH THEIR BOOTS ON. And as in BOOTS, it takes quite a bit of fictional footage to get to the climactic charge, but it's well worth waiting for.

Flynn has a role tailor-made to his specifications, the noble hero who looks even more splendid than ever wearing a trim mustache and military uniform. The script, in a twist, has his brother (PATRIC KNOWLES), who looks enough like Flynn to be his real brother, winning over the heart of the heroine (OLIVIA de HAVILLAND) at a military outpost in India. Flynn, as Major Vickers, decides to avenge the massacre of British women and children at the fort, thus forging the orders that lead to the famous charge.

All of it is strictly meant to entertain, offering political background of a confusing sort to give an idea of the events surrounding the charge. While all of it has been falsified for the sake of providing a screenplay that makes Flynn the noblest of heroes, there is no denying the epic sweep of the derring do and romance.

Flynn and screen partner de Havilland make a handsome couple and they are supported by a fine bunch of actors from Hollywood's British film colony, notably Patric Knowles, David Niven and Donald Crisp. Max Steiner has provided one of his best military background scores that gives added dimension to the exciting battle scenes.

For Flynn fans, this is a must see. For anyone expecting to see an historical account of the Charge, better tune in to the History Channel for that sort of stuff. But as entertainment, CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE delivers the goods and should make Flynn and de Havilland fans happy.