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** Oliver Cromwell was forty-three when the English Civil War began, and the film ends with his death ages fifty-nine. Creator/RichardHarris was thirty-nine during filming, making him an inversion.
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** Oliver Cromwell was forty-three when the English Civil War began, and the film ends with his death ages aged fifty-nine. Creator/RichardHarris was thirty-nine during filming, making him an inversion.
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* FakeBrit: Creator/RichardHarris as UsefulNotes/OliverCromwell.
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* FakeBrit: Irishman Creator/RichardHarris as UsefulNotes/OliverCromwell.UsefulNotes/OliverCromwell.
* FalselyAdvertisedAccuracy: The movie's publicity boasted that it was made "after ten years of research". However, takes enough liberties with how things actually played out to have [[ArtisticLicenseHistory/{{Cromwell}} a rather lengthy page]] dedicated to them.
* FalselyAdvertisedAccuracy: The movie's publicity boasted that it was made "after ten years of research". However, takes enough liberties with how things actually played out to have [[ArtisticLicenseHistory/{{Cromwell}} a rather lengthy page]] dedicated to them.
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* DeletedRole: The final version was 180 minutes long, but it was cut down to 141 minutes, deleting a number of featured roles in the process including Felix Aylmer (in his final film) as an archbishop, and Bryan Pringle. Tony Caunter, George A. Cooper and Peter Bennett, three prominent English actors, were also cut out of the film following production.
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* DeletedRole: The final version was 180 minutes long, but it was cut down to 141 minutes, deleting a number of featured roles in the process including Felix Aylmer (in his final film) as an archbishop, and Bryan Pringle.Creator/BryanPringle. Tony Caunter, George A. Cooper and Peter Bennett, three prominent English actors, were also cut out of the film following production.
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* UncreditedRole: Creator/VictorMaddern as an executioner.
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* IronyAsSheIsCast: The choice of Creator/RichardHarris to play UsefulNotes/OliverCromwell raised many eyebrows, as he was a hedonistic and proudly patriotic Irishman playing an English puritan who had allowed countless massacres to happen in UsefulNotes/{{Ireland}}. The salary was simply too good to pass up.
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* IronyAsSheIsCast: The choice of Creator/RichardHarris to play UsefulNotes/OliverCromwell raised many eyebrows, as he was a hedonistic and proudly patriotic Irishman (and a Catholic) playing an English puritan who had allowed countless massacres to happen in UsefulNotes/{{Ireland}}. The salary was simply too good to pass up.up.
** Generally, a film about the famously anti-Catholic Cromwell stars avowed Catholics Creator/AlecGuinness, Creator/FrankFinlay, and Creator/PatrickMagee (also an Irish Republican). In the latter's case, MoneyDearBoy was in full effect.
** Generally, a film about the famously anti-Catholic Cromwell stars avowed Catholics Creator/AlecGuinness, Creator/FrankFinlay, and Creator/PatrickMagee (also an Irish Republican). In the latter's case, MoneyDearBoy was in full effect.
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* DawsonCasting:
** Charles I was forty-eight when he was executed. Creator/AlecGuinness was fifty-five during filming. (In fact Charles I was one year ''younger'' than Cromwell, while Guinness was sixteen years older than Harris.)
** Oliver Cromwell was forty-three when the English Civil War began, and the film ends with his death ages fifty-nine. Creator/RichardHarris was thirty-nine during filming, making him an inversion.
** Charles I was forty-eight when he was executed. Creator/AlecGuinness was fifty-five during filming. (In fact Charles I was one year ''younger'' than Cromwell, while Guinness was sixteen years older than Harris.)
** Oliver Cromwell was forty-three when the English Civil War began, and the film ends with his death ages fifty-nine. Creator/RichardHarris was thirty-nine during filming, making him an inversion.
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* DeletedRole: The final version was 180 minutes long, but it was cut down to 141 minutes, deleting a number of featured roles in the process including Felix Aylmer (in his final film) as an archbishop, and Bryan Pringle. Tony Caunter, George A. Cooper and Peter Bennett, three prominent English actors, were also cut out of the film following production.
* FakeBrit: Creator/RichardHarris as UsefulNotes/OliverCromwell.
* HostilityOnTheSet: Creator/AlecGuinness stated in his memoirs that he was seriously unimpressed with Creator/TimothyDalton's behavior during the production.
* FakeBrit: Creator/RichardHarris as UsefulNotes/OliverCromwell.
* HostilityOnTheSet: Creator/AlecGuinness stated in his memoirs that he was seriously unimpressed with Creator/TimothyDalton's behavior during the production.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** The studio wanted Creator/CharltonHeston to star, but Ken Hughes did not think he was appropriate. Hughes tried to get Creator/RichardBurton to read the script, but Burton was not interested.
** At one stage, producer Irwin Allen hoped to get Creator/PaulScofield to play UsefulNotes/CharlesI and Creator/AlbertFinney to play Cromwell.
** The studio wanted Creator/CharltonHeston to star, but Ken Hughes did not think he was appropriate. Hughes tried to get Creator/RichardBurton to read the script, but Burton was not interested.
** At one stage, producer Irwin Allen hoped to get Creator/PaulScofield to play UsefulNotes/CharlesI and Creator/AlbertFinney to play Cromwell.
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* CaliforniaDoubling: The battle scenes were shot in Spain.
* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: In 1970, writer-director Ken Hughes said that he considered this to be the best thing he ever did.
* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: In 1970, writer-director Ken Hughes said that he considered this to be the best thing he ever did.
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* IronyAsSheIsCast: The choice of Creator/RichardHarris to play UsefulNotes/OliverCromwell raised many eyebrows, as he was a hedonistic and proudly patriotic Irishman playing an English puritan who once committed genocide in UsefulNotes/{{Ireland}}. The salary was simply too good to pass up.
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* IronyAsSheIsCast: The choice of Creator/RichardHarris to play UsefulNotes/OliverCromwell raised many eyebrows, as he was a hedonistic and proudly patriotic Irishman playing an English puritan who once committed genocide had allowed countless massacres to happen in UsefulNotes/{{Ireland}}. The salary was simply too good to pass up.
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* IronyAsSheIsCast: The choice of Creator/RichardHarris to play UsefulNotes/OliverCromwell raised many eyebrows, as he was a hedonistic and proudly patriotic Irishman playing an English puritan who once committed massacres genocide in UsefulNotes/{{Ireland}}. The salary was simply too good to pass up.
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* IronyAsSheIsCast: The choice of Creator/RichardHarris to play UsefulNotes/OliverCromwell raised many eyebrows, as he was a hedonistic and proudly patriotic Irishman playing an English puritan who once committed genocide massacres in UsefulNotes/{{Ireland}}. The salary was simply too good to pass up.
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* MoneyDearBoy: The choice of Creator/RichardHarris to play UsefulNotes/OliverCromwell [[IronyAsSheIsCast raised many eyebrows]], as he was a hedonistic and proudly patriotic Irishman playing an English puritan who once committed genocide in UsefulNotes/{{Ireland}}. The salary was simply too good to pass up.
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* MoneyDearBoy: IronyAsSheIsCast: The choice of Creator/RichardHarris to play UsefulNotes/OliverCromwell [[IronyAsSheIsCast raised many eyebrows]], eyebrows, as he was a hedonistic and proudly patriotic Irishman playing an English puritan who once committed genocide in UsefulNotes/{{Ireland}}. The salary was simply too good to pass up.up.
* MoneyDearBoy: The main reason Richard Harris accepted to play Cromwell.
* MoneyDearBoy: The main reason Richard Harris accepted to play Cromwell.
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* MoneyDearBoy: Creator/RichardHarris took on the title role in Cromwell, a casting choice that [[IronyAsSheIsCast raised many eyebrows]], as he was a hedonistic and proudly patriotic Irishman playing an English puritan who once committed genocide in UsefulNotes/{{Ireland}}. The salary was simply too good to pass up.
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* MoneyDearBoy: The choice of Creator/RichardHarris took on the title role in Cromwell, a casting choice that to play UsefulNotes/OliverCromwell [[IronyAsSheIsCast raised many eyebrows]], as he was a hedonistic and proudly patriotic Irishman playing an English puritan who once committed genocide in UsefulNotes/{{Ireland}}. The salary was simply too good to pass up.
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* MoneyDearBoy: Creator/RichardHarris took on the title role in Cromwell, a casting choice that [[IronyAsSheIsCast raised many eyebrows]], as he was a hedonistic and proudly patriotic Irishman playing an English puritan who once committed genocide in UsefulNotes/{{Ireland}}. The salary was simply too good to pass up.
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