Cromwell
1970
Following the rise of Oliver Cromwell (Richard Harris) to power as Lord Protector and in the process was central to bringing King Charles I to trial and exectution. In doing so, Cromwell laid the seeds for the more democratic Great Britain of today. This amazing story is told in an epic and lavish style in Director Ken Hughes .. Read more
| Starring | Alec Guinness, Richard Harris, Stratford Johns, Dorothy Tutin |
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| Director | Ken Hughes |
| Genres | Drama |
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Cromwell
Following the rise of Oliver Cromwell (Richard Harris) to power as Lord Protector and in the process was central to bringing King Charles I to trial and exectution. In doing so, Cromwell laid the seeds for the more democratic Great Britain of today. This amazing story is told in an epic and lavish style in Director Ken Hughes CROMWELL with world class performances from Harris and Alec Guinness as the noble, but doomed, Charles I.
| Starring | Alec Guinness, Richard Harris, Stratford Johns, Dorothy Tutin, Frank Finlay, Robert Morley, Timothy Dalton, Patrick Wymark, Patrick Magee, Nigel Stock, Charles Gray, Michael Jayston |
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| Director | Ken Hughes |
| Studio | SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 2 hrs 14 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | DVD: Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish |
| Released | DVD: 10 Nov 2003 Production year: 1970 |
| Format | DVD |
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Richard Harris's aggressive, warts-and-all Oliver Cromwell and Alec Guinness's unyielding Charles I make this a historical double act well worth catching. They bring past politics to vivid life and put pay to the idea that right and grace were on the side of royalist Cavaliers as opposed to the Puritan Roundheads. The usually undervalued writer/director Ken Hughes was given an enormous budget for a British film at the time, and the result is a long-winded but compelling epic with some mighty battles mightily well-staged.
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Turgid history lesson which never quite makes up its mind whether it means to be subtle or spectacular, and eventually... read more on Time Out
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6 out of 6 people found this review helpful
the quintessential King Charles story
fabulously crafted script balancing period drama with historical accuracy. This is the one by which other versions wither in comparison: Dougray scott and Rupert Everett in to kill a king or the radio play the last days of Charles I with sam west. Guiness and Harris are giants of the screen and master the subtle characters as they are dragged along in events that are bigger than even themselves. Guinness is masterful, as always capturing the subtle scottish borders accent and stutter that all other productions have overlooked. Both antagonist and protagonist are forced into positions by constant plot complications and malevolence on all sides. If anything the score is a little weak. This is an excellent account for those studying the period.
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Cromwell is history at it's finest.
Superb film depicting the beginings of Parliment and the demise of the Monarchys power. Another classic.
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