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Cromwell (1970)

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14:00-16:45 Tue 24th Mar 2026 160m
Talking Pictures TV

Synopsis

Cromwell (1970) box art 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 paid 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.