no one be a great fan of geroge macdonald fraser flashman paper than i be . i be surprise to see just now that richard lester direct royal flash and since i also see he have make the three or four musketeer with fraser which i though turn out rather well . not so royal flash . i be 12 year old when the film be release and could not have be more enthusiastic since i have read all the flashman paper publish up to that time and and be intoxicate with a clockwork orange and malcolm macdowel ( i still be and but he be never really give a chance after that ) . what a disappointment ( i saw it once again when i be about 20 on television and it seem even bad ) . none of the sharp dialogue in the book be transfer to the screen . the comedy of flashman character seem to me to have be mishandle in about the same way one could imagine a group of high school student try to parody it would do . the dueling and fencing be awful and undramatic . look back with more mature eye and the film fail completer to exploit the possibility of direct satire of early film version of the prisoner of zenda . if you have read the book and not see the film and i can only say that the film end with flashman and rudi von starnberg become fast friend and play a game rudi have just invent represent russian roulette . a pathetic betrayal of everything the book be about . my comment would be more direct if i have see the film more recently and but i be glad i have not . if by any chance fraser ever read this and i can only say i think he be a genius perhaps the great comic novelist of his generation and but and base on my appreciation of that corpus of work and it as hard to believe that he write the screenplay of this film and a that he do all those awful roger moore james bond film .