![]() ![]() The whole garrison at Chukoti where the massacre took place was built from the ground, up no miniatures were used. Jack Warner spent a lot of money on this film. But after the rave notices started coming in from Captain Blood before some of the romantic stuff was to be shot, Louise was substituted for Olivia DeHavilland and poor Olivia was typecast as the crinolined heroine until she left Warner Brothers. Originally Anita Louise was supposed to be slated for the part. Thrown into the politics is the rivalry between Errol Flynn and his brother Patric Knowles for Olivia DeHavilland. In fact though this is how we're still acquiring 'friends' in that region which is now Pakistan. Clive in fact is one very large fathead, Flynn knows it only too well. ![]() They won a bidding war that was as acrimonious as the military conflict with other European powers which concluded with the French out of there altogether after the Seven Years War and the Portugese left with a couple of enclaves on the coast. ![]() This in fact was how the British acquired 'friends' all over India, they ruled very little of it outright. Even though they're not paying him any more to be the British friend, Clive still hopes for Gordon's friendship. It seems as though there was a treaty with a promised subsidy from Her Majesty that expired with the death of his father. At the very beginning Errol Flynn is accompanying E.E. Yet one thing I found contained more than an element of truth about British rule in India and some of our problems today. The reason for the famous cavalry charge did not happen so that the regiment could get to nail this dude for his crimes. Henry Gordon who massacred a British garrison at a place called Chukoti in 1854. There's no such person as the evil Moslem ruler played by C. This particular Charge of the Light Brigade is a nice action adventure tale from the British Raj in the Kipling mold. Anyone who is expecting a factual retelling of the famous charge at the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War had better look to Tony Richardson's film from 1968. ![]()
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