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1	* CaliforniaDoubling: The battle scenes were shot in Spain.
2	* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: In 1970, writer-director Ken Hughes said that he considered this to be the best thing he ever did.
3	* DawsonCasting:
4	** 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.)
5	** Oliver Cromwell was forty-three when the English Civil War began, and the film ends with his death aged fifty-nine. Creator/RichardHarris was thirty-nine during filming, making him an inversion.
6	* 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 Creator/BryanPringle. Tony Caunter, George A. Cooper and Peter Bennett, three prominent English actors, were also cut out of the film following production.
7	* FakeBrit: Irishman Creator/RichardHarris as UsefulNotes/OliverCromwell.
8	* 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.
9	* HostilityOnTheSet: Creator/AlecGuinness stated in his memoirs that he was seriously unimpressed with Creator/TimothyDalton's behavior during the production.
10	* 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.
11	** 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.
12	* MoneyDearBoy: The main reason Richard Harris accepted to play Cromwell.
13	* UncreditedRole: Creator/VictorMaddern as an executioner.
14	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
15	** 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.
16	** 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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