Royal Flash
Short description
Harry Flashman is a British army captain whose reputation as a hero rests on little more than luck and invention. In nineteenth-century Europe he pursues a place in royal company, and two scheming aristocrats offer him a way in: he is to pose as a Prussian nobleman and court a duchess. The deception draws him into the political designs of Otto von Bismarck, who wants Flashman to stand in for a German prince he closely resembles. When the arrangement turns against him, Flashman is left to flee across Europe with several parties wanting him dead.
Richard Lester directed the film, the seventh of the thirteen features he made in chronological order, arriving between Juggernaut and Robin and Marian. George MacDonald Fraser wrote the screenplay from his own novel, with David V. Picker and Denis O'Dell producing for 20th Century Fox and Two Roads Productions. Malcolm McDowell plays Flashman and his royal double, heading a credited cast of thirty-four that includes Alan Bates, Florinda Bolkan, Oliver Reed, Tom Bell and Joss Ackland.
Royal Flash is an adventure comedy with romantic elements, released in October 1975 and running 102 minutes. On IMDb it holds a rating of 6.3 from around 2,400 votes, while on TMDB it stands at 5.9 from 31 votes, a modest level of support that reflects a mixed but not hostile response from those who have seen it.
What's left behind the scenes
- In 1970, Richard Lester planned to film "Flashman," based on the first novel by George MacDonald Fraser (a British Scottish author of historical novels, screenplays, and non-fiction). The screenplay was written by Charles Wood and Frank Muir. John Elder would have played the main character. The project turned out to be incredibly expensive, and it was abandoned just days before the scheduled start of filming. Lester attempted to revisit the project four years later, after a fruitful collaboration with Fraser on the first two highly successful films in the Musketeers franchise. Lester concluded that it would be easier to film based on Fraser’s second novel ("Royal Flash," 1970). The film company "United Artists" lost interest in the project shortly before filming began, but Lester managed to interest "20th Century Fox" in time. The film flopped at the box office, and the UK cinema release version was cut from 118 to 96 minutes. Fraser disliked the film so much that he vowed never to sell the rights to adapt the books in the franchise again.
Auditions in India
Casting calls in USA
Castingi w Polsce
Кастинги в Україні
