Movies

January, 1976

One of the major disappointments of the movie season, Royal Flash is a letdown because audiences had every reason to expect a lot from the first screen treatment of George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman novels (the newest of which was previewed in Playboy's September, October and November issues). Adapted by Fraser himself for director Richard Lester, with whom he had scored with the ribald and rollicking Three and Four Musketeers, Royal Flash has gone wildly off target in countless ways. Miscastin...