This epic
did win the Oscar for Best Costume Design, but it's too long and tedious for you to notice. The indefatigable Richard Harris plays Oliver Cromwell, the 17th-century English statesman who trained and led the Puritan "Roundheads" in a civil war against the Cavaliers--the royalist
allies of Parliament--and the increasingly unjust King Charles I (Alec Guinness). Fearing that King Charles' French Catholic wife, Henrietta Maria (Dorothy Tutin), is polluting her husband's Anglican religious ideology, Cromwell vows to keep England from slipping under the influence of
Catholicism. Far from being a history lesson, the blatantly erroneous CROMWELL is also rat...
Released:
1970
Rated:
NR
Length:
139 mins