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Cromwell. (film) Cromwell is a 1970 British historical drama film written and directed by Ken Hughes. It is based on the life of Oliver Cromwell, who rose to lead the Parliamentary forces during the later years of the English Civil War and, as Lord Protector, ruled Great Britain and Ireland in the 1650s. It features an ensemble cast, led by ...
Jul 17, 1970 · Cromwell: Directed by Ken Hughes. With Richard Harris, Alec Guinness, Robert Morley, Dorothy Tutin. Puritan statesman Oliver Cromwell leads England in a civil war against the absolutist and Catholic-sympathetic King Charles I.
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Mrs. Cromwell: John Welsh ... Bishop Juxon: Douglas Wilmer ... Sir Thomas Fairfax: Anthony Kemp ... Henry Cromwell: Stacy Dorning ... Mary Cromwell: Mel Churcher ... Bridget Cromwell (as Melinda Churcher) George Merritt ... William: Gerald Rowland ... Drummer Boy: Josephine Gillick ... Elizabeth Cromwell: Rest of cast listed alphabetically ...
In 1640s England, King Charles I (Alec Guinness) is engaged in a power struggle with Parliament, and civil war seems imminent to House of Commons member Oliver Cromwell (Richard Harris), who's ...
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Puritan statesman Oliver Cromwell leads England in a civil war against the absolutist and Catholic-sympathetic King Charles I. Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New World. But on the eve of their departure, Cromwell is drawn into the tangled web of religion and politics that will ...
There are vast battle scenes, lots of extras, and any number of shots of castles on the horizon (with trumpets on the sound track). But he doesn't bring the production into scale with his characters. Richard Harris, as Cromwell, schleps around the kingdom reciting epigrams and looking distracted. He doesn't inhabit the role or even seem to care ...
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Cast. Cromwell (1970) -- (Movie Clip) He Has Spoken Treason!Richard Harris as the Protestant firebrand and title character, first in a chance encounter with Robert Morley as the Earl of Manchester, defending lowly Carter (Frank Finlay), then blowing up in church, early in Ken Hughes' fictionalized bio-pic Cromwell, 1970.
