With a climax which, next to the San Francisco earthquake, is the season's most spectacular wind-up.

Forget about historical accuracy: Michael Curtiz's version of the narrative poem, starring Errol Flynn, is fanciful, stirring (assistant director won Oscar), and entertaining.

...what a grand piece of filmmaking it is, and as a pure adventure yarn, it's hard to beat.

It climaxes in a rousing battle scene of the famous Light Brigade charge.