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To Kill a King

Duration:

102 min

Genres:

Biography | Drama | History | War

IMDB rate:

6.2

Director:

Mike Barker

Awards:

3 nominations

Details

Country: UK

Filming Locations: Divinity School, Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK

Earnings

Budget: $14,300,000

Opening Weekend: £59,701 (UK) (18 May 2003)

Gross: £59,701 (UK) (18 May 2003)

Cast

Actor

Character

Arthur Cox

Jeremy Swift

Tim Roth

Oliver Cromwell

Dougray Scott

Sir Thomas Fairfax

Olivia Williams

Lady Anne Fairfax

James Bolam

Denzil Holles

Corin Redgrave

Lord de Vere

Finbar Lynch

Cousin Henry

Julian Rhind-Tutt

James

Adrian Scarborough

Sergeant Joyce

Rupert Everett

King Charles I

Steven Webb

Boy at Naseby

Jake Nightingale

Colonel Pride

Leonard Woodcock

Young Royalist prisoner

Thomas Arnold

Messenger at Naseby

Sam Spruell

King's guard

Julian Rivett

Little

Richard Bremmer

Abraham

Melissa Knatchbull

Lady Margaret

Patricia Kerrigan

Mrs. Cromwell

John-Paul Macleod

Richard Cromwell

Jonathan Coy

Digby

Mary Roscoe

Lady Whitby

Liam McKenna

Guard at safe-house

Louise Breckon-Richards

Tom's maid

Oliver Fox

The Earl of York

Neil Howman

Doubter

Benedict Cumberbatch

Royalist

Iain Rogerson

Man at execution

Andrew Cryer

Whitehall messenger

Robert Sterne

Whitehall guard

James Puddephatt

Ther Merchant

Bruno Lastra

Spanish Ambassador

Ella Barker

Molly Fairfax

Julia Bridgeman

Mary Cromwell

Katy Cross

Cromwell's Middle Daughter

Jessica Hazel

Cromwell's Eldest Daughter

Evie Wray

Girl of the Court

Goofs

In the opening sequence, Fairfax shoots the sword out of the hand of Cromwell's assassin with a flintlock pistol at about 30 yards range. Such pistols had no rifling at that period and were incapable of nowhere near such accuracy, even in the hands of an expert. To shoot at that range Fairfax would have been more likely to have hit the assassin. Also the bullet struck sparks from the sword hilt when it hit. This is impossible as the bullet would have been a soft lead ball and incapable of creating a spark.