Cartoon Corner: Cromwell Fights Kings and Witches
Created | Updated Jul 2, 2012
If we're going to be patriotic this week, we can't leave out an English victory. Of course, you all know about this event.
2 July 1644: The Battle of Marston Moor
The Battle of Marston Moor was a great victory for the Parliamentarians over the Royalists during the English Civil War. What was it all about? 'Why, that I cannot tell, said he, but 'twas a famous victory.' Apparently, the Scots felt they didn't get enough credit.
Oliver Cromwell was there, but according to history, he wasn't fighting any vampires. On the other hand, it occurs to us that this was a period of major outbreaks of what they call in Tennessee 'godless supernaturalism'. So we suggest that the next hit film be titled Oliver Cromwell: Witch Hunter.
The fellow in the picture certainly looks as if he smelled something bad – possibly Charles I's expense account. We venture to suggest David Warner for the part. Cromwell really looks more like Warner than Tim Roth, although Roth did a brilliant job of playing the Lord Protector in To Kill a King.
Needless to say, Roth played Cromwell 'warts and all'.
