Balaclava is a 1928 British silent and sound war film directed by Maurice Elvey and Milton Rosmer and starring Cyril McLaglen, Benita Hume, Alf Goddard, Harold Huth, and Wally Patch.^[1] It was made by Gainsborough Pictures with David Lean working as a production assistant. The charge sequences were filmed on the Long Valley in Aldershot in Hampshire. Although the sound version had no audible dialogue, it featured a synchronized musical score with sound effects. The sound version was released in the United States under the title Jaws Of Hell.

A British army officer is cashiered, and re-enlists as a private to take part in the Crimean War. He succeeds in capturing a top Russian spy. The film climaxes with the Charge of the Light Brigade.^[2]

• Cyril McLaglen as John Kennedy
• Benita Hume as Jean McDonald
• Alf Goddard as Nobby
• Miles Mander as Captain Gardner
• J. Fisher White as Lord Raglan
• Henry Mollison as Prisoner's Friend
• Betty Bolton as Natasha
• Robert Holmes as Father Nikolai
• Harold Huth as Captain Nolan, Adjutant
• Wally Patch as Trooper Strang
• H. St. Barbe West as Prosecutor
• Boris Ranevsky as Tsar
• Wallace Bosco as Lord Palmerston
• Marian Drada as Queen Victoria

Portions of Balaclava were reshot under the direction of Milton Rosmer with dialogue written by Robert Stevenson and it was re-released as a sound film which featured a synchronized musical soundtrack with sound effects in April 1930.^[3][4]

• Balaclava at IMDb
• Film still