Prince Brat and the Whipping Boy
by Syd Macartney
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Actor: George C. Scott, Kevin ConwayDirector: Syd Macartney
Producer: Philip D. Fehlre
Producer: Gerhard Schmidt
Writer: Albert Sidney Fleischman
DVD: Region Code 0
Format: NTSC
Running Time: 113 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-01-19
Studio: Columbia Pictures Television
Movie Reviews of Prince Brat and the Whipping Boy
Movie Review: Two, boys on adventure in France in the 1700's.
Summary: 5 Stars
Rated-G. Made for the Disney-Channel.
Filmed on location in the countryside of France, in a castle, village, and forest. Lavish costumes, sets. Plenty of soldiers, courtiers, and a couple of bad-guys. Two boys coming to friendship through adventure.
The royal family does not believe the prince and future king should be whipped with servants gossiping in the castle; so an orphan, boy is abducted and takes the punishment for the prince, and is paid for his pain. Not as far-fetched in England where misbehaving school-children were regularly whipped with a cane in the public schools; I know for sure through the 1930's, and maybe later. This is a very brief part of the plot.
The king is too busy to spend anytime with his son the prince, and rejects his young son's requests for activities. The young prince tries to get attention, and let his father know he is sad, by retaliating for each rejection with mischievous pranks. An ambassador is visiting trying to avert war. The young prince pulls his pranks on the ambassador, and then his father, with both sides thinking the other responsible. Thus, the young-prince pushes the two, kingdoms to the brink of war.
The young-prince and the orphan-boy run away on quite an adventure. A good moral in the end. The film moves at a good pace with plenty of action, interest, and humor. The orphan-boy's little sister has her own troubles elsewhere.
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