Sharpe's Rifles (1993)
1h 42m
Running Time
May 5, 1993Release Date
Sharpe's Rifles (1993)
1h 42m
Running Time
May 5, 1993Release Date
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Plot.
During the Peninsular War in Spain against the French, Sergeant Richard Sharpe saves the life of Arthur Wellesley, the future Duke of Wellington and is promoted to Lieutenant. In order to pay the troops Wellesley needs a money draft from the banker Rothschild, but fears he has been captured by the French and sends Sharpe behind enemy lines to find him. Sharpe is given command of a platoon of crack riflemen, led by the surly Irishman Harper and including Hagman and Harris, who resent Sharpe as not being a 'proper officer'.
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Cast & Crew.
Sean Bean
Richard Sharpe
Brian Cox
Major Michael Hogan
Daragh O'Malley
Patrick Harper
Assumpta Serna
Comandante Teresa Moreno
David Troughton
Sir Arthur Wellesley
John Tams
Rifleman Daniel Hagman / Original Music Composer
Jason Salkey
Rifleman Harris
Michael Mears
Rifleman Francis Cooper
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Wiki.
Sharpe's Rifles is the first of the Sharpe television dramas, based on Bernard Cornwell's 1988 novel of the same name. Shown on ITV in 1993, the adaptation stars Sean Bean, Daragh O'Malley and Assumpta Serna. It began a long series of successful and critically acclaimed television adaptations of the novels.
The drama tells the story of Richard Sharpe, an ambitious and hardened soldier from Yorkshire. The story follows the exploits of Sharpe and his band of chosen men through Spain after they survive an ambush by French cavalry.
Filming took place in the Crimea, Portugal and England, during which Paul McGann who was the original actor cast for the role of Richard Sharpe, broke his leg and was quickly replaced with Sean Bean.
Sharpe Collection.
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Sharpe's Eagle (1993)
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Sharpe's Regiment (1996)
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Sharpe's Siege (1996)
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Sharpe's Revenge (1997)
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Sharpe's Peril (2008)
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