
Witchfinder General
- Year:
- 2002
- 60 min
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"...things I heard, as it were,
the voice of much people in heaven, saying,
"Hallelujah.
"Salvation and glory and power
is to our God.
"For true and just are his judgments,
"who hath judged the great harlot
which corrupted...
"...with her fornication,
"and hath revenged the blood
of his servants, at her hands.
"Come, gather yourselves together
"That you may eat the flesh of kings,
and the flesh of tribunes,
and the flesh of horses,
"and of them that sit on them,
and the flesh of all freemen and bondmen,
"and of little and of great.
"And I saw the beast,
and the kings of the earth,
"and their armies gathered together
to make war with him
"that sat upon the horse..."
Bring on some water!
"And the beast was taken,
and with him the false prophet,
"who wrought signs before him,
"wherewith he seduced them
who received the character of the beast,
"and who adored his image.
"These two were cast alive into
the pool of fire, burning with brimstone.
"And the rest were slain by the sword
of him that sitteth upon the horse...
"...and all the birds were filled
with their flesh."
The year is 1645.
England is in the grip of bloody civil war.
On the one side stand the Royalist party
of King Charles,
on the other, Cromwell's Parliamentary
party, the Roundheads.
The structure of law and order
has collapsed.
Local magistrates indulge
their individual whims,
justice and injustice are dispensed
in more or less equal quantities
and without opposition,
an atmosphere in which
the unscrupulous revel
and the likes of Matthew Hopkins
take full advantage of the situation.
In a time where the superstitions
of country folk are still a powerful factor,
Hopkins preys upon them,
torturing and killing in a supposed drive
to eliminate witchcraft from the country
and doing so with the full blessing
of what law there is.
However, his influence is confined largely
to the eastern sector of the country,
East Anglia, which is held firmly
in Cromwell's grasp,
but not so firmly that
have everything their own way,
an ever-present threat
from the remnants of the Royalist armies,
desperately foraging
for food, horses and supplies.
-Stop that, Richard.
-What?
-What you're thinking.
-What am I thinking?
Ungodly thoughts of your Sara,
that's my guess.
Thoughts of Sara, yes. Ungodly?
Depends on how you look at it.
And you, a supporter of Cromwell...
-Hold your talking, you two.
-Yes, sir. Of course, sir.
We'll be stopping in a few minutes
to give the horses a rest.
You can gabble all you want then.
Fifteen minutes
and we'll be on our way again.
Get down. Royalist snipers.
Probably only a few of them
after food and horses.
We'll flush the bastards out in no time.
Marshall, you stop behind
to keep an eye on the nags.
The rest of you follow me
and keep spread out.
-Captain, look! There's one!
-I see him! Follow!
Harcourt, this way.
Robert?
Captain?
Captain Gordon, is that you?
We're here, trooper Marshall.
It's quite all right.
-Getting a bit nervous, were you, lad?
-Aye, just a bit, sir.
Well, no need to worry.
We got them all, I reckon...
Not quite all. One of them got away, sir,
though I put my sword in him first.
We'd better move on
out of this wood, then.
If he has got away,
Swallow, bury Brace's body
as soon as you can.
Look out, sir!
-Thank you, trooper Marshall.
-He was trying to kill you, sir.
-I gather that, trooper.
-It was a lucky shot, sir.
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