Royal Flash (1975)
Country: GB
Technical: col 118m
Director: Richard Lester
Cast: Malcolm McDowell, Oliver Reed, Alan Bates, Florinda Bolkan, Britt Ekland
Synopsis:
A reprobate captain in the British army is coerced by Otto von Bismarck into impersonating a Prussian prince, to further his wider German ambitions.
Review:
Supposedly the further adventures of the bully in Tom Brown's Schooldays, and incorporating a camp version of The Prisoner of Zenda with historical characters such as Bismarck (Reed) and Lola Montès (Bolkan), this trifling oddity strives to evoke the atmosphere of the Musketeers films but succeeds only in coarsening it with adolescent ribaldry, wherein it is greatly aided by the casting of McDowell. What's more, it closes with loose ends scandalously untied. In short, impressive only in the cast of British notables it gathers to its cause.
Country: GB
Technical: col 118m
Director: Richard Lester
Cast: Malcolm McDowell, Oliver Reed, Alan Bates, Florinda Bolkan, Britt Ekland
Synopsis:
A reprobate captain in the British army is coerced by Otto von Bismarck into impersonating a Prussian prince, to further his wider German ambitions.
Review:
Supposedly the further adventures of the bully in Tom Brown's Schooldays, and incorporating a camp version of The Prisoner of Zenda with historical characters such as Bismarck (Reed) and Lola Montès (Bolkan), this trifling oddity strives to evoke the atmosphere of the Musketeers films but succeeds only in coarsening it with adolescent ribaldry, wherein it is greatly aided by the casting of McDowell. What's more, it closes with loose ends scandalously untied. In short, impressive only in the cast of British notables it gathers to its cause.
Country: GB
Technical: col 118m
Director: Richard Lester
Cast: Malcolm McDowell, Oliver Reed, Alan Bates, Florinda Bolkan, Britt Ekland
Synopsis:
A reprobate captain in the British army is coerced by Otto von Bismarck into impersonating a Prussian prince, to further his wider German ambitions.
Review:
Supposedly the further adventures of the bully in Tom Brown's Schooldays, and incorporating a camp version of The Prisoner of Zenda with historical characters such as Bismarck (Reed) and Lola Montès (Bolkan), this trifling oddity strives to evoke the atmosphere of the Musketeers films but succeeds only in coarsening it with adolescent ribaldry, wherein it is greatly aided by the casting of McDowell. What's more, it closes with loose ends scandalously untied. In short, impressive only in the cast of British notables it gathers to its cause.