Royal Flash

Based on the popular series of Flashman novels by George MacDonald Fraser, Royal Flash tells the epic tale of the cowardly Captain Harry Flashman (famous for bullying Tom Brown in Tom Brown's Schooldays) a would-be playboy and socialite, except he doesn't have the money or the breeding. Seeing a short cut to the society crowd, Flashman agrees to Otto Von Bismarck's scheme to impersonate a Prussian prince and marry a duchess. But when the scheme goes awry, Flashman finds himself escaping via the European wars, in which his cowardliness gets mistaken for military bravery. (official distributor synopsis)