Balaclava (film)

Balaclava
Balaclava at the Royal Alexandra Theatre in Toronto, Canada, after its release as a talkie
Directed by	Maurice Elvey Milton Rosmer
Produced by	Michael Balcon
Written by	Boyd Cable Gareth Gundrey W. P. Lipscomb Angus MacPhail Milton Rosmer Robert Stevenson
Based on	"The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Starring	Cyril McLaglen Benita Hume Alf Goddard Miles Mander
Music by	Louis Levy
Cinematography	Percy Strong James Wilson
Edited by	Ian Dalrymple
Production company	Gainsborough Pictures
Distributed by	Woolf & Freedman Film Service
Release dates	6 June 1928 (1928-06-06) (UK)
Country	United Kingdom
Language	Silent (English intertitles) (1928 release)

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.^[1] A British army officer is cashiered, and re-enlists as Private to take part in the Crimean War and succeeds in capturing a top Russian spy. The film climaxes with the Charge of the Light Brigade.^[2] It was made by Gainsborough Pictures with David Lean working as a production assistant.

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.^[3]^[4]

References

↑ Balaclava at imbd.com
↑ Balaclava at bfi.org
↑ Progressive Silent Film List: Balaclava at silentera.com
↑ Balaclava at britmovie.co.uk

External links

Balaclava at the Internet Movie Database
Film still

Films directed by Maurice Elvey

Silent films	Maria Marten (1913) Her Luck in London (1914) The Idol of Paris (1914) The Loss of the Birkenhead (1914) The Suicide Club (1914) Honeymoon for Three (1915) Home (1915) A Will of Her Own (1915) There's Good in Everyone (1915) Charity Ann (1915) Florence Nightingale (1915) Gilbert Dying to Die (1915) Gilbert Gets Tiger-It is (1915) Love in a Wood (1915) Her Nameless Child (1915) From Shopgirl to Duchess (1915) Midshipman Easy (1915) Fine Feathers (1915) Money for Nothing (1916) Trouble for Nothing (1916) Driven (1916) Esther (1916) When Knights Were Bold (1916) Vice Versa (1916) Meg the Lady (1916) The King's Daughter (1916) The Princess of Happy Chance (1916) Mother Love (1916) The Woman Who Was Nothing (1917) The Grit of a Jew (1917) Smith (1917) Justice (1917) The Gay Lord Quex (1917) Flames (1917) Mary Girl (1917) Dombey and Son (1917) The Life Story of David Lloyd George (1918) Hindle Wakes (1918) Nelson (1918) The Greatest Wish in the World (1918) Goodbye (1918) Adam Bede (1918) The Victory Leaders (1919) Comradeship (1919) God's Good Man (1919) Mr. Wu (1919) The Elusive Pimpernel (1919) Quinneys (1919) The Rocks of Valpre (1919) Keeper of the Door (1919) The Swindler (1919) The Tavern Knight (1920) A Question of Trust (1920) At the Villa Rose (1920) The Hundredth Chance (1920) The Amateur Gentleman (1920) Bleak House (1920) A Gentleman of France (1921) A Romance of Wastdale (1921) Innocent (1921) The Fruitful Vine (1921) The Man with the Twisted Lip (1921) Dick Turpin's Ride to York (1922) A Debt of Honour (1922) The Hound of the Baskervilles (1922) Running Water (1922) Guy Fawkes (1923) The Royal Oak (1923) The Wandering Jew (1923) The Sign of Four (1923) The Passionate Friends (1923) Don Quixote (1923) Sally Bishop (1924) Henry, King of Navarre (1924) Slaves of Destiny (1924) The Love Story of Aliette Brunton (1924) My Husband's Wives (1924) The Woman Tempted (1926) The Flag Lieutenant (1926) Mademoiselle from Armentieres (1926) Roses of Picardy (1927) Hindle Wakes (1927) The Flight Commander (1927) Quinneys (1927) The Glad Eye (1927) Mademoiselle Parley Voo (1928) Balaclava (1928) Palais de danse (1928) You Know What Sailors Are (1928) High Treason (1929)

Sound films	The School for Scandal (1930) Potiphar's Wife (1931) Sally in Our Alley (1931) A Honeymoon Adventure (1931) Frail Women (1932) In a Monastery Garden (1932) The Marriage Bond (1932) The Water Gipsies (1932) Diamond Cut Diamond (1932) The Lodger (1932) The Lost Chord (1933) I Lived with You (1933) This Week of Grace (1933) Soldiers of the King (1933) Love, Life and Laughter (1934) Road House (1934) Lily of Killarney (1934) The Clairvoyant (1935) The Tunnel (1935) Heat Wave (1935) Spy of Napoleon (1936) The Man in the Mirror (1936) A Romance in Flanders (1937) Who Killed John Savage? (1937) Melody and Romance (1937) Change for a Sovereign (1937) Lightning Conductor (1938) Who Goes Next? (1938) The Return of the Frog (1938) Sword of Honour (1939) Sons of the Sea (1939) Under Your Hat (1940) The Spider (1940) For Freedom (1940) Room for Two (1940) Salute John Citizen (1942) The Lamp Still Burns (1943) Medal for the General (1944) Strawberry Roan (1945) Beware of Pity (1946) The Third Visitor (1951) The Late Edwina Black (1951) My Wife's Lodger (1952) The Great Game (1953) Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary? (1953) House of Blackmail (1953) The Harassed Hero (1954) What Every Woman Wants (1954) The Gay Dog (1954) You Lucky People (1955) Room in the House (1955) Fun at St. Fanny's (1956) Dry Rot (1956) Stars in Your Eyes (1956) Second Fiddle (1957)

The films of Milton Rosmer

Balaclava (1928)
Dreyfus (1931)
The Perfect Lady (1931)
Many Waters (1931)
P.C. Josser (1931)
After the Ball (1932)
Channel Crossing (1933)
The Secret of the Loch (1934)
What Happened to Harkness? (1934)
Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn (1935)
Emil and the Detectives (1935)
The Guv'nor (1935)
Everything Is Thunder (1936)
The Great Barrier (1937)
The Challenge (1938)

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