Word: peevishly
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Dates: during 1971-1971
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ALEC GUINNESS as King Charles I gives a performance of such finesse that Harris' Cromwell, by contrast, seems all peevish bluster. Cromwell can retain audience sympathy only when he strikes out against painfully over-drawn bogies of pure evil, such as the dissolute Lord Manchester (Robert Morley). Though Hughes takes pains to paint Cromwell as a sexually vigorous masculine dynamo (we even have one shot of him the bracing a long spear), there is more life and sexuality in the tender parting of Charles and his queen (Dorothy Tutin) than in either of the cardboard domestic scenes between Oliver...