Stars: Alec Guinness, Richard Harris, Stratford Johns, Dorothy Tutin, Frank Finlay, Robert Morley, Timothy Dalton, Patrick Wymark, Patrick Magee, Nigel Stock, Charles Gray, Michael Jayston

Director: Ken Hughes

Summary: This powerful dramatisation of a part of British history unfolds majestically against a backdrop of pageant, bloody battle and the agonies of a country torn apart by bitter civil war.

Following the rise of Oliver Cromwell (Richard Harris) to power as Lord Protector and in the process was central to bringing King Charles I to trial and exectution. In doing so, Cromwell laid the seeds for the more democratic Great Britain of today. This amazing story is told in an epic and lavish style in Director Ken Hughes CROMWELL with world class performances from Harris and Alec Guinness as the noble, but doomed, Charles I.

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In a time when it seems that every other movie makes some claim to being a film noir, LA Confidentialis the real thing--a gritty, sordid tale of sex, scandal, betrayal and corruption of all sorts (police, political, press--and, of course, very personal) in 1940s Hollywood. The Oscar-winning screenplay is actually based on several titles in James Ellroy's series of chronological thriller novels (including the title volume, The Big Nowhereand White Jazz)--a compelling blend of LA history and pulp fiction that has earned it comparisons to the greatest of all Technicolour noirfilms, Chinatown.

Kim Basinger richly deserved her Supporting Actress Oscar for her portrayal of a conflicted femme fatale; unfortunately, her male costars are so uniformly fine that they may have canceled each other out with the Academy voters: Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kevin Spacey and James Cromwell play LAPD officers of varying stripes. Pearce's character is a particularly intriguing study in Hollywood amorality and ambition, a strait-laced "hero" (and son of a departmental legend) whose career goals outweigh all other moral, ethical and legal considerations. If he's a good guy, it's only because he sees it as the quickest route to a promotion. --Jim Emerson

Aspect Ratio:	2.35 Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Trailers for other releases in the Columbia Classics range
Subtitles:	Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
Year:	1970
Release Date:	November 10, 2003
Runtime:	134 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	C D R 10251
Keywords:	General, Cromwell, Wide, Screen, Drama, Historical
Genre:	Drama