I halways tells them they'll know their front from the many black nigger faces waving knives at 'em! Lord Cardigan: Are you costive, young man? Codrington: I have your orders, my lord, to be here and eat lettuce. They'll never find their front when there hisn't a black face to it. Riding-master Mogg: It's like a foreign language to them! They don't know hany direction, back or front. Lord Cardigan: All this swish and tit gets my sniffing nose up! I shall have to fetch it off, tonight, Squire, had me Cherrybums out today, always makes me randified! At times, I am so pent up with their languour that I could scruff hold of any two of them and bang their noddles together until their doodles drop off! If one is a stupid, inconsiderate and lazy man, one can fit as a round peg in a snug round hole. They 'ardly never wobble.Ĭaptain Nolan: There is no place happier than a cavalry mess. What you sergeants will never seem to understand is the state of responsibility that an hofficer is in. Mogg: Ah, but there is no such thing as a wobbly hofficer. Recruits in England are mostly wobbly and ill-formed. Riding-master Mogg: What is the condition of them? TSM Corbett: They're all wobbly-boned. Metcalfe: I'm a bad character, just out of gaol! TSM Corbett: In that case, you've already served Her Majesty! Lord Cardigan's Cherrybums - follow me! TSM Corbett: I thought you had, by the fine way you carry yourself. Are you respectable? Mitchell: I've often thought of enlisting. Out mounts is mastered and mannered, gentle in ride.calm in battle, and our officers just whisper, they being of the opinion, like to myself, that more can be done glorious by leading from the front than can ever be brought off by prods up the arse from the rear! Hold your head up, sir! I believe you would look a rare treat in stable dress. God bless him! Our dress is bright and warm. Ah! And escort to Prince Albert on the occasion of his wedding, after which he called us His Own. Good! If they can't fornicate, they can't fight, and if they don’t fight hard, I'll flog their backs raw, for all their fine looks! A master cutler sharps their swords, and I keep 'em tight-stitched, cut to a shadow. Ten thousand a year out of me own pocket I spend to clothe 'em. I am Lord Cardigan, that is what! Them Cherrybums, you see 'em tight, my Cherrybums, I keep 'em tight. No damn business of anyone, what is what. This film chronicles the events that led to the British involvement in the Crimean War against Russia, the siege of Sevastopol and the fierce Battle of Balaclava on Octowhich climaxed with the heroic, but near-disastrous cavalry charge made by the British Light Brigade against a Russian artillery battery in a small valley which resulted in the near-destruction of the brigade due to error of judgment and rash planning on part by the inept British commanders. This film followed an earlier version The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland.That grand heroic moment - The Charge of the Light Brigade! ( taglines) Dialogue Lord Cardigan: I do not propose to recount my life in any detail, what is what. Director Tony Richardson used one of the biggest blunders in British military history to offer commentary on the ongoing Vietnam War.
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