Some outmoded fluff from the auterical pen of Andrew Sinclair, who adapted his own kids’ book with Richard Warwick as the titular guardsman who falls for red-headed posh revolutionary Joanna Lumley and accordingly ‘drops out’ in what was by that time a pretty hackneyed manner. John Bird, Edward Fox and Graham Bond turned up. The film opened and closed almost instantaneously, and Sinclair went back to the indie sector, doing an OK-ish adaptation of Under Milk Wood, a frightful horror effort with Oliver Reed as a satanic butler, and ended up ploughing through chanky straight-to-video action rubbish such as African Bond knock-off Tuxedo Warrior, Carol Royle’s least finest hour.
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