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I should have known better than to even go looking for pictures of Alan Bates in Georgy Girl earlier today for my post on the movies of 1966, because what happens when I go looking for pictures of Alan Bates in anything any time is I end up looking at pictures of Alan Bates forever, and ever. Today started with Georgy but before I knew it I had stumbled upon the above picture of Alan in Richard Lester's 1975 film Royal Flash, and now I am obsessed. It didn't take much. Just...
... that mustache and several strange and erotically-suggestive shots of Bates with his co-star Malcom McDowell to do it. I have absolutely no clue what's going on in this movie...
... but I can't wait to find out. Have any of you seen it? The entire thing has been uploaded onto DailyMotion thankfully, so our internet-scouring isn't too difficult to do so, if need be. Here, let us watch it together...
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'Royal Flash' was based on a George MacDonald Fraser book of the same name, about a pseudo-historical character named Flashman. Fraser wrote an entire series of these books, well-researched and hysterically funny, about a sort of 19th-century Forest Gump-like anti-hero who happened to be present at many important historical events like the Charge of the Light Brigade and Custer's last stand. The books are enormously entertaining but the only one made into a film was woefully mis-cast and didn't quite catch the proper tone. I would LOVE to see them tackled by a competent director with a stellar cast; in my mind there's only one actor who could carry off the role - Jude Law - though he's getting a little long in the tooth for it.
As I understand it, Fraser hated 'Royal Flash' so much that he refused to let anyone adapt any more of his books to the screen in his lifetime.
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