15 x 100 minute tv movies... Starring Sean Bean.
May just be the best fighting man camaraderie series ever made. I can't believe I missed out on the 15 years they have been making these TV movies in the UK. The historical era of Wellington v Napoleon makes it fresh for someone raised on TV westerns.
May just be the best fighting man camaraderie series ever made. I can't believe I missed out on the 15 years they have been making these TV movies in the UK. The historical era of Wellington v Napoleon makes it fresh for someone raised on TV westerns.
Sharpe's Rifles is the first of the Sharpe television dramas, based on the Bernard Cornwell 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 of the 95th Rifles.
Filming took place in Crimea, Portugal and England, during which Paul McGann (the original casting for Sharpe) broke his leg playing football and was replaced with Sean Bean.
