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. 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.
Plot
A British army officer is cashiered, and re-enlists as a private to take part in the Crimean War. He succeeds in capturing a top Russian spy. The film climaxes with the Charge of the Light Brigade.
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.