Review of Cromwell (1970) by James H — 16 Jun 2008

If you can get over the hilariously dramatic music and very dated battle scenes, this film is rather enjoyable. Alec Guinness (who looks remarkably like all the engravings I've seen of Chalres I) is excellent opposite Harris.

For as much as Cromwell stands up for "the common man" (a driving theme in the movie) the audience never gets a picture of what life was like outside of court for the middle and lower classes, during a period of dramtic social, political, and cultural upheaval.

Harris delivers some really poetic lines and , as one of the only films about the English Civil War, I dug it.