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    Royal Flash (1975)

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    Author George MacDonald Fraser’s series of novels featuring a grown-up Harry Flashman, the bully from Tom Brown’s Schooldays, were fun, but the character didn’t survive the transition to film.

    The conniving 19th-century military officer is forced to impersonate a European noble as part of a plot to seize control of the country. However, once the ruse is uncovered, he must flee for his life across the Continent.

    As congenital coward Captain Harry Flashman of the 11th Hussars, Malcolm McDowell lacks the necessary public school veneer and, despite effective support from the likes of Alan Bates (who would have been better cast in the lead role) and Oliver Reed (ditto), it’s really hard to care what happens to him in this Prisoner of Zenda retread.

    Still, the women (Florinda Bolkan and Britt Ekland) are fun, the pace is relentless, and the period re-created with gusto; it just feels so disjointed and interminable. No other Flashman novels were filmed.

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    Captain Harry Flashman
    Malcolm McDowell
    Rudi von Starnberg
    Alan Bates
    Lola Montez
    Florinda Bolkan
    Otto von Bismarck
    Oliver Reed
    Duchess Irma of Strakenz
    Britt Ekland
    Kraftstein
    Lionel Jeffries
    de Gautet
    Tom Bell
    Sapten
    Joss Ackland
    Eric Hansen
    Christopher Cazenove
    Old roué
    Roy Kinnear
    Mr Greig
    Alastair Sim
    Headmaster
    Michael Hordern
    John Gully
    Henry Cooper
    Police constable
    Bob Hoskins
    Mayor
    David Jason

    Director
    Richard Lester

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