Today’s movie is a historical drama with a scene that
happens on January 4. Watch it tonight and enjoy.
CROMWELL
Oliver Cromwell
is outraged by the introduction of Catholic paraphernalia into his church.
Charles II wants the Earl of Strafford to deal with Scottish rebels, but as
there is no money for an army, Parliament is called to give money. They refuse
to give any money until grievances are addressed. Stafford is impeached and
executed. On January 4, 1642 [from 33:19 to 40:37] King Charles II personally
enters the House of Commons to arrest five members of Parliament who he thinks
are traitors. This leads to civil War. The first battle at Edgehill reveals
deficiencies in the parliamentary forces, so Oliver Cromwell organizes the New
Model Army. After beating the king at Naseby, Cromwell is made
commander-in-chief of the parliamentary forces. Settlement talks with the king
lead nowhere and he is eventually tried, convicted and executed. Although
offered the crown, Cromwell refuses it, but eventually dissolves parliament,
which is shown as corrupt as the old royal government ever was.
The Civil Wars of England
by J. P. Kenyon (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1988) at page 27 gives the date of
the attempted arrest
Director - Ken Hughes
Producer - Irving Allen
Screenplay - Ken Hughes
Awards – The film won the Best
Costume Design Oscar and was nominated for the Best Original Score Oscar at the
43rd Academy Awards.
Released – July 16, 1970
Runtime – 2 hours 19 minutes
Starring –
Richard Harris as Oliver Cromwell
Alec Guinness as Charles I of
England
Robert Morley as Edward Montagu,
2nd Earl of Manchester
Dorothy Tutin as Queen Henrietta
Maria
Frank Finlay as John Carter
Timothy Dalton as Prince Rupert
of the Rhine
Patrick Wymark as Thomas
Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford
Patrick Magee as Hugh Peters
Nigel Stock as Edward Hyde, 1st
Earl of Clarendon
Charles Gray as Robert Devereux,
3rd Earl of Essex
Michael Jayston as Henry Ireton
Douglas Wilmer as Sir Thomas
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Geoffrey Keen as John Pym
Copyright by Ivan Walters in 2015
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