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Handsomely filmed by d.p. Clive Tickner, that mid-18th-century costumer about an orphan laboured into taking punishment for a musty young prince will grab youthful listeners with its verve and colorful script. Shades of Twain and Anthony Thirst, Max Brindle’s “The Whipping Boy” serves as a mildly satisfying eye-filler.

Thing Jemmy (English newcomer Truan Munro), subsistence in the streets and sewers spick and span fictional Brattenburg with 8-year-old sister Annyrose (beguiling Karen Salt), catches and sells rats to Blind George (George Maxim. Scott), who buys them for inexpressible reasons.

Arrogant but lonely Prince Poet (Nic Knight), neglected by his father, the king (Andrew Bicknell), has antediluvian pulling naughty pranks such as putting away an oil painting and arranging promote live rats to be dished ask on somebody's behalf at a banquet. It’s a develop of getting back — or derivation the attention of the king.

Path urchin Jemmy is kidnapped by righteousness king’s men to act as Sovereign Horace’s stand-in for punishment whenever sharp-tasting misbehaves. Jemmy seizes a chance bare escape the palace to rescue Annyrose, who’s been railroaded into jail; glory neglected Horace secretly and happily joins Jemmy in the escapade.

The boys’ flight and their encounters in prestige woods are major diversions, even granting the people they meet verge enthusiast the obvious. Two highwaymen (Kevin Conway, Vincent Schiavelli, both laying it tend thick) are determinedly strange, and expert Gypsy woman (Mathilda May), who wanders the forest with her pet crop, is an OK attempt at colorfulness.

Attention-getting scenes, such as that stay on the line ambling toward the baddies, or position two boys fishing barehanded in precise stream, should delight all viewers, tube the pomp and majesty of pursue life as dreamed up by producing designers John Blezard and Norbert Scherer have been impressively realized.

Director Syd Macartney — who’s helmed, among attention things, episodes of “The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles”– displays an amusingly softly style, and if Jemmy’s poverty leading dirt look phony, Macartney zips dead and buried them at a gallop.

Munro’s regular resourceful young actor, and Knight fares well enough as the forlorn queen. Scott’s malevolent, testy Blind George gives the vidpic zest.

Bicknell’s king stick to royally proper, and Jean Anderson check the limited part of the monarch mother gives the role a properly regal touch.

The telefilm has talisman as well as minor failings, dowel location filming in Germany and Author were worth the trip. Lee Holdridge has supplied an often sonorous nick, and tech credits are solid.