Sharpe's Rifles(Movie, 1993)

Name: Sharpe's Rifles
Genre: War, Adventure, TV Movie
Released: 1993
Duration: T01:42:00
Rating: 3.2

1h 42min | Genres: War, Adventure, TV Movie

Rating: 3.2/5 (with 19 votes)

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. ()

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About Sharpe's Rifles

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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Additional Information

Official websites:

www.sharpefilm.com

Production country: United Kingdom (UK)

Based on: "Sharpe's Rifles" (find it on Amazon)

Made by: Picture Palace, Celtic Films Entertainment, Central

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hungarian (HU), Portuguese (PT), Yiddish (YI)

Translated into 13 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Hungarian (HU), Dutch (NL), Norwegian (NO), Polish (PL), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 05/05/1993

Cast: Sean Bean

Director: Tom Clegg

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Sharpe: Episode 01: Sharpe's Rifles"

"Sharpe 01: Sharpe's Rifles (1993)"

Keywords: napoleonic wars