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Cromwell

1970, Movie, NR, 139 mins

Cromwell: Review

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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 rather far from being entertaining. Guinness does his usual fine work as the weak Charles I, Tutin is fine as the queen, Robert Morley is exciting as the nasty Earl of Manchester, a young Timothy Dalton has some fun with his role, and cinematographer Geoffrey Unsworth makes it all look very lovely. Harris, however, is a tough sell in just about any movie, and CROMWELL is no exception. Costing $9 million, CROMWELL justifiably went belly-up at the box office, raking in only about one-third of that figure. Frank Cordell's score received an Oscar nomination. leave a comment
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