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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Royal
EAN: 0024543425410
Format: Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Shocking Videos
Languages: EnglishOriginal Language
Manufacturer: Shocking Videos
MPN: FOXD2242541D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Shocking Videos
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 03, 2007
Running Time: 102 minutes
Studio: Shocking Videos
Theatrical Release Date: 1975
Editorial Review:
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Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 04/03/2007
Amazon.com:
The term "romp" could have been invented to describe Royal Flash, a boisterous 1975 comedy-adventure starring Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange, Caligula) as Captain Harry Flashman: Braggart, bully, coward, thief, womanizer, and all-around scoundrel. Having risen to heroic prominence through sheer luck, Flashman gets sucked into a scheme by German statesman Otto von Bismarck (played with a superlative scowl by Oliver Reed, Gladiator) and courtesan Lola Montez (Florinda Bolkan, The Damned) to marry Flashman to a beautiful duchess (Britt Ekland, The Man with the Golden Gun) to control her province. But the political machinations are just an excuse for a rambunctious mix of satire and derring-do, much like director Richard Lester (A Hard Day's Night) and screenwriter George MacDonald Fraser (who also wrote the Flashman novels, on which this film was based) had perfected with the enormously successful The Three Musketeers. Royal Flash suffers in comparison; the pace in the middle sags from too much pomp and not enough circumstance. But the movie builds to a vigorous conclusion, including some excellent swordplay between McDowell and Alan Bates (Gosford Park) as an unscrupulous Hungarian. The movie's skeptical view of heroism and politics are a welcome tonic in an era of spin and image management. McDowell reminisces fondly on the commentary track. --Bret Fetzer
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Rating:  -
I'm glad that some viewers like it. I did too, and after finally seeing it after so many years of trying, I am surprised at the terrible rap the movie has acquired. What's really missing, something that lends weight to the novels, I think, is the voice of the older, wiser, brutally honest Harry. Otherwise, what's to criticize? Sexy women, swordfights, scenery, costumes. And there is one really great turn: Oliver Reed as Bismarck. He deserved his own miniseries.
Rating:  -
I guess I am one of the few Flashman readers who liked this film. I agree that Royal Flash is one of Fraser's weaker novels (probably my least favorite of the series), but I think Lester, with Fraser doing the screenplay did a good job. The two had collaborated to even greater effect with their classic adaptation of The Three Musketeers a few years earlier, and must have jumped at the chance to work again. It is too bad they did not start with the first novel, but I imagine it would have required ... Read More
Rating:  -
Royal Flash is more than just a slapstick romp with plenty of laugh-out-loud scenes. It is that--but it's also a well-crafted and humorous look at history which can be taken at face value or viewed as a rather cynical commentary on the nature of power and fame. It's a clever depiction of the possible (if improbable) backstory for Otto von Bismarck's rise to power by way of a sly retake on Anthony Hope's books, The Prisoner of Zenda and Rupert of Hentzau. Instead of a True Blue Victorian Hero, you ... Read More
Rating:  -
I am forced to cast my vote with those who regard this movie as a failure.
To me, the film fails on two counts. The first failure relates to the general approach. How in heaven's name did G. M. Fraser, the author of the wonderfully amusing black comedy novels about that magnificent anti-hero of anti-heroes, General Sir Harry Flashman, come to write such a feeble, would-be action comedy and lowly farcical screen adaptation for this movie?
The other failure, and vastly the ... Read More
Rating: -
Simply put, this was not a very good film adaptation of the novel, even though author George MacDonald Fraser wrote the screenplay. Too, casting Malcolm McDowell (light colored hair/blue-eyes, 5' 8" tall, and weighing 140lbs dripping wet) as the bluff rogue Flashman (black hair and black moustache/dark brown-eyes, 6' tall, and weighing in at 13 stone = 180lbs) was totally wrong. GMF said he thought Flashy should be played by someone like the late Errol Flynn "...with his impudent swagger, athletic grace, ... Read More
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