The Charge Of The Light Brigade - 1936 - USA

The Charge Of The Light Brigade - 1936 - 6/10

High powered adventure loosely based on historic fact, the Tennyson poem, and nonstop creative license.
The English vie for influence in the Khyber region.  While the Vickers’ brothers vie for the love of Miss Campbell.
The India backstory is lengthy, mixing romance, intrigue and betrayals.
This seems straight out of Kipling.

 
Nonetheless, the scene inexorably shifts to the Crimean War and the Balaclava Heights.
The finale is thrilling and horrifying.  Flynn blamed director Curtiz; the culprit was likely Breezy Eason.

Here In America - 2024 - UK

Here In America - 2024 - 7/10

 
“When the government goes into the business of destroying trust, it goes into the business of destroying itself.”
Arthur Miller
A series of meetings, mostly in 1952, between Arthur Miller and Elia Kazan.
The HUAC meetings are underway, and the men may be targets.
Kazan was a member of the US Communist Party, Miller attended a few meetings.
Neither did anything overtly wrong, but the Committee is more interested in those who held influence.
Also who else belonged.  Who were the other traitors?  Names.  What were their names?
Heady play about witch hunts and persecution, a cycle that resurrects over and over.
Miller would fashion his experience into “The Crucible”.  Kazan … is what he is.
He is left to ponder Miller’s phrase about the gap between what's right and what seems best for you.