Tony Richardson's 1968 The Charge of the Light Brigade, with its star cast, lavish sets and location shoots, was one of the most expensive British films ever made. Mark Connelly examines the film and its difficult production history, the role of its stars David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave and John Gielgud, and director Richardson's running feud with the press, all culminating in the film's subsequent fame. He shows the film to be representative of its time, in its visual style and its use of sixties themes such as youth, sexual infidelity and class, to discuss how Charge of the Light Brigade, while meticulously reconstructed from authentic sources, reveals the horror of war to a world struggling to come to terms with American involvement in Vietnam.
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FILM Magazine: "Mark Connelly has written a splendid book which examines the film and its production history with a fine tooth comb, and which kept me occupied for days. I highly recommend it." 'The BFG's all adhere to a common structure- a feature that differentiates them from the British Film Institute's rather less consistent Film Classics series- that focuses on the production and reception histories of the films as well as detailed analyses of their narrative and visual style... Connelly is at his best in his contextual analysis of the film. He uses a wide range of primary sources, including contemporary press materials and interviews with surviving personnel to chart the long and troubled production history of the film.' -James Chapman, Film International/Filmhaftet
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Mark Connelly is Reuters Lecturer in Media History at the University of Kent.
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Few people would doubt that over the last few years the 1960s and 1970s have achieved a new cult status in Britain, particularly among the nation's youth. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Charles Wood, Tom Jones, United Artists, David Watkin, David Hemmings, Look Back, British Empire, Kevin Brownlow, Lord Cardigan, Tony Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave, Crimean War, John Gielgud, Lovely War, Michael Caine, Great War, John Osborne, Richard Williams, Trevor Howard, Lord Lucan, Second World War, Swinging London, Errol Flynn, George Lellis, John Mollo New!
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Few people would doubt that over the last few years the 1960s and 1970s have achieved a new cult status in Britain, particularly among the nation's youth. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Charles Wood, Tom Jones, United Artists, David Watkin, David Hemmings, Look Back, British Empire, Kevin Brownlow, Lord Cardigan, Tony Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave, Crimean War, John Gielgud, Lovely War, Michael Caine, Great War, John Osborne, Richard Williams, Trevor Howard, Lord Lucan, Second World War, Swinging London, Errol Flynn, George Lellis, John Mollo New!
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- The Reason Why: The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade by Cecil Woodham-Smith on 6 pages
- Look Back in Anger (Plays, Penguin) by John Osborne on 4 pages
- Hollywood England: The British Film Industry in the Sixties by Alexander Walker in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Family Life: Victorian Britain Hb by Richard Wood on page 27, page 67, and Back Matter
- Sixties British Cinema (The History of British Film) by Robert Murphy in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Children, Cinema and Censorship: From Dracula to Dead End (Cinema and Society) by Sarah Smith in Front Matter
- The Private Life of Henry VIII: A British Film Guide by Greg Walker in Front Matter
- My Beautiful Laundrette: The British Film Guide 9 (The British Film Guides) by Christine Geraghty in Front Matter
- The 39 Steps: A British Film Guide by Mark Glancy in Front Matter
- The Dam Busters: A British Film Guide by John Ramsden in Front Matter
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