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Balaclava
Also known as Jaws of Hell in the USA
(1928) England
B&W : Nine reels / 8500 feet
Directed by Maurice Elvey
Cast: Cyril McLaglen [John Kennedy], Benita Hume [Jean McDonald], Alf Goddard [Nobby], Miles Mander [Captain Gardner], J. Fisher White [Lord Raglan], Henry Mollison [the prisoner’s friend], [?] Betty Boulton or Betty Bolton? [Natasha], Robert Holmes [Father Nikolai], Harold Huth [Captain Nolan, adjutant], Walt Patch (Wally Patch) [Trooper Strang], [?] J. St. Barbe West or H. St. Barbe West? [the prosecutor], Boris Ranevsky [the tsar], Wallace Bosco [Lord Palmerston], Marian Drada [Queen Victoria], Eugene Leahy [Prince Albert]
Gainsborough Pictures, Limited, production; distributed by Woolf & Freedman Film Service, Limited. / Produced by Michael Balcon. Scenario by Angus Macphail, Milton Rosmer and Robert Stevenson, from an adaptation by Boyd Cable, W.P. Lipscomb and V. Gareth Gundrey of the poem “The Charge of the Light Brigade” by Alfred Tennyson. Art direction by Alex Vetchinsky. Assistant director, David Lean. Second assistant director, Fred V. Merrick. Cinematography by Percy Strong and James Wilson. Third camera assistant, Alan Lawson. Film editor, Ian Dalrymple. / Released 6 June 1928. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Originally shot as a silent film by Elvey, the film was partially reshot [?] with talking sequences? by Rosmer and rereleased in the United Kingdom with a synchronized soundtrack by Woolf & Freedman Film Service, Limited, on 14 April 1930. The film was released in the USA on 30 December 1930. / Silent film.
Drama: War.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: (unknown)
Keywords: Espionage: Spies - War: Soldiers
Listing updated: 17 November 2022.
References: Gifford-British n. 08457 : ClasIm-279 p. 23 : Website-IMDb.
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