This edition of Composing Cinema focuses on Oscar and Grammy-winning composer John Addison. The screening will be introduced by Oscar nominated-composer Gary Yershon, who will discuss Addison's score for Tony Richardson's anti-war epic, The Charge of the Light Brigade.
From director Tony Richardson comes this brilliant retelling of tragic events during the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s.
A British cavalry division, led by the overbearing Lord Cardigan (Trevor Howard), engages in an infamously reckless strategic debacle against a Russian artillery battery. An inept chain of command and the arrogance of the aristocratic officers nearly destroys the brigade. Interpersonal wars within the unit, including unfaithful wives and a rivalry between Lord Cardigan and Captain Nolan (David Hemmings), heighten the conflict.
