The Reunion (2012)
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Four young men who were friends in high school reunite several years later to discover that they all have failed professionally and their love lives haven't really gone anywhere. They go on a quest to find and reconnect with their school sweethearts and finally achieve happiness.
Keywords: airport, amputee, bare-chested-male, based-on-song, best-friend, bully, car-chase, chase, class-reunion, classmate
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La soga (2009)
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We're all born innocent.
Revenge has a new name.
Sharpe's Challenge (2006)
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Sean Bean is back as the swashbuckling hero in Sharpe's Challenge, an action packed mini-series to be shot on location in Rajasthan, India. Two years after the Duke of Wellington crushes Napoleon at Waterloo, dispatches from India tell of a local Maharaja, Khande Rao, who is threatening British interests there. Wellington sends Sharpe to investigate on what turns out to be his most dangerous mission to date. When a beautiful general's daughter is kidnapped by the Indian warlord, the tension mounts, leaving Sharpe no option but to pursue the enemy right into its deadly lair. Deep in the heart of enemy territory he also has to keep at bay the beautiful but scheming Regent, Madhuvanthi, who is out to seduce him. The fate of an Empire and the life of a General's daughter lie in one man's hands...
Keywords: 19th-century, adventure-hero, ambush, army, bare-breasts, based-on-novel, battle, battlefield, bayonet, blood
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Richard Sharpe: I thought you were dead Pat::Patrick Harper: I can't be watching your arse if I'm dead now, can I?
Patrick Harper: [points his volley gun at Bickerstaff] Say hello to Mr Nock [pulls trigger]
Madhuvanthi: [to Dodd] And after you have made the plain run red with English blood, once you have ground them into the dirt, what then, my love?
Davi Lal: [Sharpe is asking him to steal from two merchants] But that would be stealing sahib. How am I to be a good British soldier if you make me into a thief again?::Richard Sharpe: It isn't thieving when you're hungry, Davi. That's the first thing any soldier learns. Now go on.
Richard Sharpe: It's a poor bloody spot for a tea party, Captain. Bandit country, and that one picket horse along the track, might call that reckless.
General Sir Henry Simmerson: You should be wary of this one, McRae. He thinks because Wellington raised him up from the sewer that it somehow makes him a gentleman. Don't know your place, do you Sharpie?::Richard Sharpe: Maybe not, but I know how to stand before a French column. I know how to face fire without soiling my breeches and turning tail.
Sgt Shadrach Bickerstaff: Easy to be brave, with rank and new sunlight behind ye. I hope you sleep light Colonel, lest you find some morning you wake up to find your throat slit!::Richard Sharpe: Is that a threat Sergeant?::Sgt Shadrach Bickerstaff: Take it as ye please.::Richard Sharpe: Oh I do. So come on, let's sort it out now, just you and me.::Sgt Shadrach Bickerstaff: [laughs] I weren't born yesterday neither, Colonel. 'Tis a hanging offense to strike an officer!::Richard Sharpe: But like you said, I'm not a company officer.::Sgt Shadrach Bickerstaff: All the same, I will not hit a man wearing the King's Uniform.::Richard Sharpe: No? Well that's easily remedied. [starts unbuttoning his uniform]
Patrick Harper: [enemy cavalry have captured him and Sharpe in their land] It's about time!
Richard Sharpe: You want me to go back to India?
William Dodd: Your army, is going to be utterly destroyed!
Icons of Power: Napoleon's Final Battle (2006)
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Wellington: The Iron Duke (2002)
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Surviving Gilligan's Island: The Incredibly True Story of the Longest Three Hour Tour in History (2001)
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The complete recapping adventure of the seven idiots trapped on a deserted island. No phones, no lights, no motor cars. Not a single luxury. Like Robinson Crusoe, it's primitive as can be. People portray not only Bob Denver, Alan Hale, Jim Backus, Natalie Schafer, Tina Louise, Russell Johnson and Dawn Wells but also portray them as their world famous characters. We also get behind the scenes looks at how Sherwood Schwartz attempted to put his show on the air, and how they did casting, and how everyone dealt with the publicity, like people thought Jim Backus and Natalie Scahfer were really married, and when they took a picture of Gilligan, Ginger and Mary Ann for the cover of TV Guide and cut off Mary Ann, and about Tina Louise taking a dislike to her character. The trials and tribulations are explored too, even to the moment when Jim Backus was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease and the deaths of he, Alan Hale and Natalie Schafer. The real life Bob Denver, Russell Johnson and Dawn Wells even appear and talk about what they remember back then.
Keywords: 1960s, based-on-true-story, character-name-in-title, comedy-filmmaking, fame, family-filmmaking, film-making, television, television-history, television-industry
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The Scandals. The Egos. The Fights. Find out what when on when the cameras went off.
Surviving Gilligan's Island: The Incredibly True Story of the Longest Three Hour Tour in History (2001)
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The complete recapping adventure of the seven idiots trapped on a deserted island. No phones, no lights, no motor cars. Not a single luxury. Like Robinson Crusoe, it's primitive as can be. People portray not only Bob Denver, Alan Hale, Jim Backus, Natalie Schafer, Tina Louise, Russell Johnson and Dawn Wells but also portray them as their world famous characters. We also get behind the scenes looks at how Sherwood Schwartz attempted to put his show on the air, and how they did casting, and how everyone dealt with the publicity, like people thought Jim Backus and Natalie Scahfer were really married, and when they took a picture of Gilligan, Ginger and Mary Ann for the cover of TV Guide and cut off Mary Ann, and about Tina Louise taking a dislike to her character. The trials and tribulations are explored too, even to the moment when Jim Backus was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease and the deaths of he, Alan Hale and Natalie Schafer. The real life Bob Denver, Russell Johnson and Dawn Wells even appear and talk about what they remember back then.
Keywords: 1960s, based-on-true-story, character-name-in-title, comedy-filmmaking, fame, family-filmmaking, film-making, television, television-history, television-industry
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The Scandals. The Egos. The Fights. Find out what when on when the cameras went off.
Sabotage! (2000)
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June, 1815. Napoleon Bonaparte, surrounded by enemies, is about to play his definitive part in history. He has spent his whole life creating a mystique, becoming synonymous with determination, strength and mystery. But, that whole super-leader trip is smothering him and he just can't stand it anymore. Meanwhile, one of his aides, le maréchal Hugo Armani, has only one dream: to emulate the man who is his idol, his emperor. Armani picks the battle of Waterloo as the moment for his borderline psychotic attack - the first case of Napoleonic delirium in modern psychiatry. Due to the shortage of maréchals at the moment, Napoleon's got no choice: he has to leave Armani in command. Unbalanced Armani, so unexpectedly promoted, now leads the troops of France.
Keywords: battle-of-waterloo, napoleon-bonaparte
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Waterloo
Una comedia estratégico-operativa de los hermanos Ibarretxe
Un día muy complicado... en la vida de un hombre muy ocupado
Boys Will Be Boys (1999)
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Two young brothers talk their strict father Lloyd Clauswell into allowing them to babysit themselves for the first time while their parents attend a corporate barbecue. As Lloyd vies for a promotion from the eccentric company president Mr. Wellington, Lloyd's nemesis Skip Larue hatches a scheme with his sultry fiancé Patsy to frame Lloyd for embezzlement by hiding stolen cash in the Clauswell home. Beginning with an argument over who is really in charge, Matt and Robbie enlist their friends and nearly destroy the house as they battle for control. But they learn the real meaning of "blood is thicker than water" when they must join forces to stop the evil plans of Skip Larue. Police detective Palladino is left to sort out this mess of who did what to whom and why, as he finds out once and for all that when two brothers are left alone, Boys Will Be Boys.
Keywords: brother-brother-relationship, children, family-relationships, gangster, home-alone, interview, police-detective, police-station
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Matt and Robbie have been left in charge of the house. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Blackadder Back & Forth (1999)
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It's Millennium Eve and Blackadder is hosting a dinner party for a few select friends, Lady Elizabeth, Viscount George, Archbishop Melchett and Archbishop Darling. Baldrick devises yet another of his infamous cunning plans to help his ever greedy master Edmund Blackadder con money from his gullible friends. The pair build a "time machine" from empty cereal packets and place bets with their friends as to when in history they will travel, retrieving various artifacts from their travels as proof, items which Blackadder already owns! However, in a strange twist of fate the time machine actually works and the pair are thrown back in history initially to the Jurassic period. Gradually the pair start to return to their own time stopping off at various famous times in history such as Sherwood Forest and the Battle of Waterloo but will they make it home?
Keywords: alternative-comedy, begins-with-text, black-adder, black-comedy, caught-in-a-net, character-name-in-title, con, credit-card, crown, crude-humour
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The final episode in the saga of the Blackadder family, who have forever been at the very center of British history and society.
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Blackadder: And here is a front page of Macbeth, signed by William Shakespeare himself.::Lady Elizabeth, George, Darling: Who?::Melchett: Oh, come on, you know this... he's the fellow who invented the ball-point pen.
George: Well you certainly won the bet, Blackadder. Here's your 10,000 francs...::Blackadder: What do you mean, "francs?"::George: What do you mean "What do I mean, 'francs'?"::Darling: We've been using francs for over 200 years.::Melchett: Yes, ever since Wellington lost the battle of Waterloo.
Blackadder: [after discovering that Baldrick's undies caused the extinction of the dinosaurs] That's another one of life's great mysteries solved: the dinosaurs were in fact wiped out... by your pants.
Blackadder: Just one question... What makes you so great?::Robin Hood: 'Cos I'm ME, man.
Baldrick: You know how when you're drowning, and your life flashes in front of your eyes? Well, what I was thinking is that you could dunk your head in a bucket of water and if you held it down till just before you died, you could see how the levers were and get us home.::Blackadder: Excellent plan, Baldrick, with perhaps one slight modification... [Punches Baldrick and shoves his head in a bucket of water]::Baldrick: I'm 18, I've just left Nursery School. I'm 25, I'm back in Nursery School.
Blackadder: Last one in gets hacked to death by Rod Stewart's great-great-grandfather.
Blackadder: [punches Shakespeare] That is for every schoolboy and schoolgirl for the next 400 years! Have you any idea how much suffering you're going to cause? Hours spent at school desks trying to find ONE joke in "A Midsummer's Night Dream", wearing stupid tights in school plays and saying things like, "What ho, my Lord," and, "Oh, look, here comes Othello talking total crap as usual."::[kicks Shakespeare]::Blackadder: And THAT is for Ken Branagh's endless, four-hour version of Hamlet.::William Shakespeare: Who's Ken Branagh?::Blackadder: I'll tell him you said that, and I think he'll be rather hurt...
[to a Tyrannosaurus Rex]::Blackadder: Sod off.
[Blackadder enters the time machine, and congratulates Baldrick on his work]::Baldrick: I followed Mr Da Vinci's instructions to the letter.::Blackadder: Even though you can't actually read.::Baldrick: No, but I have done a lot of Airfix models in my time.
Blackadder: You really are as thick as clotted cream, that's been left out by some clot, and now the clots are so clotted, you couldn't unclot them with an electric de-clotter, aren't you, Baldrick?
Cuisine américaine (1998)
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Sharpe's Waterloo (1997)
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Based on the novel by Bernard Cornwell, "Sharpe's Waterloo" brings maverick British officer Lt. Col. Richard Sharpe to his last fight against the French, in June of 1815. Sharpe is assigned to the Prince of Orange's staff, and is rejoined with Sgt. Harper (retired) and riflemen Hagman and Harris at the famous battles of Quatre Bras and Waterloo. Not only must Sharpe deal with incompetent orders from the Prince of Orange, that lead to slaughter, he confronts his wife's lover, Lord Rossendale, in the midst of battle. The film climaxes as Wellington's small army 'holds the line' against Napolean's veteran Imperial Guard.
Keywords: adventure-hero, apostrophe-in-title, army, based-on-book, based-on-novel, battle, battlefield, bayonet, blood, british-accent
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Richard Sharpe: [Rallying the South Essex] I'm your colours. I Am.
Wellington: The Prince of Orange. They wanted to give him command over me. Better counsel prevailed.
Prince William of Orange: It's the French. Oh my god. Now they have guns.::Wellington: Oh, they've always had guns, your royal highness. What they haven't always had is you as a target.
Prince William of Orange: Good day to you. We're fighting Boney you know. Indeed we are. This day, at the cross roads of Quartre Bras... He's been seen.::Wellington: Has he been? [disbelievingly]::Prince William of Orange: We're holding the woods I do believe... yes.::Uxbridge: Where are your men?::Prince William of Orange: Fighting... Fighting.::Uxbridge: I stand corrected, highness. I know very little about uniforms, other than me own, but I could have sworn these was yours as is running. Ain't they?::Prince William of Orange: Some of them, Lord Uxbridge, some of them. Come back here ya cowards. [as he chases after them]::Wellington: [to Uxbridge] I never mind men running as long as they come back.::Wellington: [to the retreating troups] My lads, you look blown from your run. Come, do take breath a moment. Then we will go back and try if we can do better. Take heart, soon have some guns up.::Wellington: Uxbridge.::Uxbridge: Wellington?::Wellington: When?::Uxbridge: Oh, they do come I assure you. What of the Prussians. Any word at all?::Wellington: I tell the Prussians we'll support them but only if not attacked here. They'll have to fight without us today.::Wellington: [distant cannon sounds] Listen. There. The Prussians have started before us.::Prince William of Orange: [the Prince has returned to the group and Sharpe has joined them] Sharpe, you hear those guns, Sharpe? Far off. That's the Prussians pasting up the French. Do you hear it. Listen.::Prince William of Orange: [an explosion near the Prince] It's the French. My God, now they have guns.::Wellington: Oh, they've always had guns your royal highness. What they haven't always had is you as a target.::Richard Sharpe: [chuckles]::Wellington: [to Uxbridge] If your corp is coming up as you assure me; how close do you think they are. I want them clear that road, I want it hansom arranged with guns.::Uxbridge: Very close.::Wellington: How close?::Uxbridge: Close. Coming up. [as he turns about to look for them]
Doggett: [to the Prince of Orange] You, sir, are a silk stocking full of shit.
Wellington: Your Regiment, Sharpe!::Richard Sharpe: Prince of... South Essex! ADVANCE! [regiment walks off towards the French] South Essex Charge!
Rebeque: [Rebeque is talking to Sharpe about the Prince of Orange and his whores, when there is large bang] That's his boots!
Doggett: [on the Prince of Orange] He did it again. How many more men will he kill? That's my commission gone to the blazes I dare say, but it had to be said.::Richard Sharpe: [choking with grief] Daniel Hagman... Harris... He won't kill anymore!::Patrick Harper: [to Doggett] Oh now you have caused trouble! [rides after Sharpe]
Doggett: [to the Prince of Orange] You did it again! Colonel Sharpe said you would do it again, and you did! All those men dead because you wanted to get out? You coward!::Rebeque: Doggett! His Royal Highness cannot be called a coward.::Doggett: No, dammnit. No, not cowardice, not that. Just so he can dance and prance, and make high cockalorum, while men die? Horribly? It is too much, I declare, too much! I shall say it!::Doggett: [after a second] You sir, are a silk stocking full of shit!
Hagman: Harris?::Harris: Hm?::Hagman: What's your first name?
Sharpe's Mission (1996)
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Three years previously Sharpe has been on a scouting party with Major Brand whose heroics found him promoted to Colonel. Now Sharpe is reunited with Brand,leader of a commando force,to go behind enemy lines and destroy a French gunpowder store. Also along are Major-General Ross,Wellington's head of intelligence,the disfigured explosives expert Major Pyecroft and Pyecroft's gypsy lover Zara,whom he rescued when a band of masked men killed her family. In fact Brand is leading them into a trap to capture Ross as he is a French spy and traitor,responsible for the deaths of Zara's family. Sharpe and Ross have their suspicions,which are confirmed after Brand's sergeant Pope tries to kill Zara.The fort is taken and Brand court-martialled and killed in a fight with Sharpe. The store is destroyed,thanks to Pyecroft. Back at camp a pretentious war reporter Shillington tries,unsuccessfully, to impress Jane with his poetry,though his sketches inadvertently help Sharpe to trap Brand.
Keywords: 1800s, based-on-novel, british-army, british-soldier, disfigured-face, france, journalist, napoleonic-wars, scout, sequel
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Wellington: I'd be obliged if you'd show that fellow Shellington around the camp. I can't spare another officer.::Sharpe: Yes sir.::Wellington: Oh, and Sharpe, you better brace yourself. He's a poet.::Sharpe: Poet, sir? My wife will be delighted.::Wellington: Really? Personally I'd rather call for the surgeon and have him cut off my goddamn foot with a saw.
[Shellington has passed out from seeing the dead bodies]::Ross: What are we going to do with him, Sharpe?::Sharpe: Send him home, sir.::Ross: Home? He'll need an escort.::Sharpe: Send two of Brand's men back with him. They know the terrain. Gives us a perfect excuse for bringing Brand back.::Ross: What if he doesn't want to go back to Wellington's camp?::Sharpe: Oh, he'll want to, sir.::Shellington: [coming around] Where am I?::Sharpe: [to Ross] Might even try to seduce my wife.
Jane: Why would you follow him to the death?::Harris: Loyalty! We're loyal to him and he's loyal to us. In life and in death. We trust him with our lives and he trusts us with his life.::Jane: And with his wife. He trusts you with his wife.
[Harris is confined to camp pending a murder inquiry]::Sharpe: Harris, until this matter is resolved, you're my responsibility. Now while I'm on this mission, you will act as manservant to my wife.::Harris: You're letting a suspected murderer look after your wife, sir?::Sharpe: Harris, I am posting you to my household as I would post you to a position on a battlefield.::Harris: [saluting and smiling] Yes, sir!
[Brand is found guilty of six murders. After being goaded by Brand, Sharpe hits him in the chest and he falls back into a deep well to his death]::Ross: Did you see that, Harper?::Harper: Who me, sir? No, I saw nothing, sir.::Ross: Did you see what happened to Col. Brand?::Harper: Oh, he's a funny fish, sir. I just saw him jump head-long into the wishing well. Why do you think he'd want to do something like that, sir?::Ross: Thank you, Harper.
Daniel Hagman: Brings back fond memories, eh, sir? Beg your pardon, sir.::Sharpe: That's alright. Just keep an eye out on 'em. I don't know who's about.::Daniel Hagman: Don't you worry sir. Me and the lass; we'll look out for him.
Ramona: Look at him; Patrick Harper, my husband. Making a fool of himself, over a gypsy girl! You know what I'd like to do to her?
Ross: From what I hear, sometimes he is outside the law.::Sharpe: Maybe he uses rough methods, but he gets results. So do you.::Ross: Maybe I do, but I don't take pleasure in it.::Sharpe: You're a damn liar.
Ross: Good to see you, Septimus.::Pyecroft: I wish I could say the same.
Harper: Chosen Men are men of honour! Men who fight any enemy to the death, but still bury them!
Salsa e Merengue (1996)
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Sharpe's Gold (1995)
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Patrick Harper: I had an uncle who thought the Faeries were after him.::Richard Sharpe: What happened to him?::Patrick Harper: Well, sir, they got him.
Will Nugent: I'm most grateful for this young man. He saved us all.::Lord Wellington: It's what he does. Isn't it, Sharpe.
Patrick Harper: Well would you look at this. [indicates the redcoats coming down the hill]::Richard Sharpe: Our absent friends.
Sgt. Rodd: The only money I take off the Frenchmen is like this [turns to the looters] 'Wait for me!'
Bess Nugent: For God's sake there's enough black sheep in our family to fill a field! Whoring and swindling, but Will isn't one of them. And as for your wife Kitty and her tribe...::Lord Wellington: Bess what is this for?::Bess Nugent: Let me go too, and find him.::Lord Wellington: No you will not. You will be removed from here, in the opposite direction, disarmed and obedient.
Rifleman Skillicorn: [on the provosts] They're thieve takers, so that makes them thieves themselves.::Rifleman Harris: Well, Skillicorn! He doesn't say much but when he does you have to listen. [laugh]
Patrick Harper: [talking about the arrival of Wellington's relatives] Well, I've never seen him sweat like that before. Poor old Nosey.::Rifleman Cooper: I weren't looking at him, I was looking at the young lady.
Richard Sharpe: [Skillicorn has been caught by Ayres with a chicken] Look nobody lives here it's deserted!::Lt. Ayres: He's a looter. [turns to his flunkies] Hang him!
Rifleman Skillicorn: Is he supposed to hit me?::Patrick Harper: If he hadn't done, I would have. You've landed him in the shite! Grab your rifle, go on. You'll be lucky to save your neck.
Ellie Nugent: Daddah?::Will Nugent: [speaks nonsense]::Ellie Nugent: Daddah! Daddah, who am I? You know me!::Will Nugent: [continues nonsense]
Sharpe's Battle (1995)
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Loup: No more of my men will die in this god forsaken place.::Richard Sharpe: They will if I find them.
Wellington: Give the puppets Richard Sharpe.
[Perkins is badly wounded]::Perkins: [sobs] Sorry, Sarge!::Patrick Harper: You're gonna be all right, lad.::Perkins: Dan! Dan! Give me a tune, Dan!::Hagman: [sings] O'er the hills, and o'er the main, to Flanders, Portugal and Spain, King George commands and we obey...::Perkins: [sobs] Mother!::Patrick Harper: She's with ya, lad! Mothers never leave you!::Perkins: [sobbing] I'm sorry, Sarge... [he dies]::Patrick Harper: Oh, my God... Oh, my God... Nobody touches O'Rourke! That bastard's mine!
Major Mungo Munro: Perfect! We've sent a regicide to train a palace guard!
Patrick Harper: O'Rourke! I'll find you, O'Rourke!::[a group of the renegade Irish appear, and Harper blasts them with his volley gun. Only O'Rourke is left standing]::O'Rourke: Sergeant Harper... you know I've no quarrel with a fellow Irishman.::[He raises his musket and pulls the trigger. It clicks empty]::Patrick Harper: A good soldier always looks after his weapon, Private O'Rourke.::[O'Rourke yells and charges with his bayonet. Harper disarms him and spins him around]::Patrick Harper: O'Rourke, this one's for Perkins...::[stabs him]::Patrick Harper: This one's for Ireland...::[stabs him again]::Patrick Harper: And this one's for me!::[stabs him one last time. O'Rourke falls, dead]
[while Loup is holding Lucy as a hostage, he tries to rape her. She smashes a bottle over his head, pushing him away. He brushes glass out of his hair and laughs]::Loup: What are you going to do with that, my lady? Kill me?::[She holds the bottle to her own neck]::Lady Kiely: You will not defile me, sir. On my child's life, you will not.::[Loup pauses, uncertain. He takes a step toward her, and she nicks herself, drawing blood]::Lady Kiely: I will do it, as God sees me.::[pause]::Loup: [sighs] My men will show you to your quarters.
Loup: You have two of my men?::Richard Sharpe: Not for long.::Loup: Might I remind you, Major, of the rules of war?::Richard Sharpe: Raping women? Killing babies and young children? What you did here isn't war!::Loup: I police these mountains, Major, to protect our supply lines from guerillas. The chief weapon of the guerilla, Major, is horror. Horror! So, I make sure that I am more horrible than my enemy.
Richard Sharpe: [Harper has dragged out the two Frenchmen captured whilst raping women and killing children] Harper!::Patrick Harper: Sir!::Richard Sharpe: Put them up against the wall. I want a fireing squad ready. [In responce, all of the riflemen and members of the South Essex form two lines as the squad]
Kiely: [after being stabbed by Loup] You have killed me, sir.
Decoy (1995)
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In a world of deception and betrayal, who is the target and who is the decoy?
Death is their business.
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Diana: I don't appreciate you talking about me or my father that way.::Baxter: My house, my opinion. Behold, the door!
Diana: You do like women, don't you?::Baxter: Some of them.
Sharpe's Enemy (1994)
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Portugal 1813. A band of deserters, including Sharpe's old enemy, Obadiah Hakeswill, have captured two women, one the wife of a high-ranking English officer, and are holding them hostage for ransom. Sharpe is given the 60th Rifles and a Rocket troop, as well as his majority to rescue the women. But while Sharpe may be able to deal with his old enemy, he has yet to face a newer threat, the French Major Duclos.
Keywords: adventure-hero, based-on-novel, battle, battlefield, bayonet, behind-enemy-lines, british-accent, british-army, british-soldier, cannon
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Teresa: [to Sir Augustus] If you were a man, I would call you out, force you to fight a duel, and kill you.
Sarah: Don't worry. I'm married to a French colonel. We fell in love before this war began. He's a brave man and he'll come for me soon, I know he will.::Isabella: I'm married to an English colonel. He's a coward, and he won't come at all.
Richard Sharpe: No wonder Harris reads Voltaire. Listen: Dieu ne pas pour le gros battalions, mais pour sequi teront le meilleur.::Teresa: God is not on the side of the big battalions, but of the best shots.::Richard Sharpe: Not bad for a Frog, eh?
Wellington: Discipline is only a rabble-rouser's shout from anarchy!
Isabella: Voltaire says, I have no morals, yet I am a very moral person. And that's how I think I am.::Richard Sharpe: That's how I think you are, too.
Nairn: You see that colonel, Sharpe? That colonel came here to make you a major. Would you believe that?::Richard Sharpe: No, sir.::Nairn: Right hand up to God, Sharpe.::Richard Sharpe: That's your left hand, sir.
Richard Sharpe: What are you smiling at, Fredrickson?::Frederickson: I'm not smiling, sir. A musket ball broke my jaw. I have false teeth. The sawbone stuck on the smile for free, sir. He also stuck on my hair. Hair belongs to a horse, sir.
Pot Au Fe: My friends, let us not fight! Let us eat!
Teresa: You never stopped me from doing what I had to do. That's why I loved you so much.
Teresa: Harper, I have half a bottle of the best Irish whisky from the Irish priests at Salamanca.::Richard Sharpe: You speak a word and you're dead, Harper.::Patrick Harper: I'll be dead, but, sir, I'll be drunk.
Sharpe's Honour (1994)
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1813. Major Sharpe's old enemy, Major Ducos manipulates a beautiful young marquesa into falsely accusing Sharpe of rape. Her husband calls Sharpe out in a duel. But when the husband is found dead the next morning, Sharpe is arrested and brought before a court martial, and it seems not even Patrick Harper and the Chosen Men can save Sharpe from a hanging, or rescue his honour.
Keywords: adventure-hero, adventurer, army, based-on-book, based-on-novel, battle, battlefield, behind-enemy-lines, blood, blood-spatter
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El Matarife: You must count the ways of your death.::Sharpe: The dead don't count, El Matarife.
Sharpe: Bloody French on one side, partisans on the other... and we're stuck here with the woman who had me hung.::Harper: God does work in mysterious ways.
La Marquesa: It's bloody freezing!::Patrick Harper: Must be the weather, maam.
Aide: Should I serve sherry to the Spanish officers, sir?::Wellington: Damn it, Stokeley, it's an execution, not a bloody christening.
Pierre Ducos: You've had it easy in this war, Helene. Fluttering your eyelashes and living in Spanish splendour with your dear husband, the Marques.::La Marquesa: I married him at Napoleon's request. I can't enjoy having him grunt all over me while I stole information for people like you.::Pierre Ducos: I never considered it.::La Marquesa: But then you've never had sex.
Peter d'Alembourd: I've been speaking with some of the Spanish officers. The Marques is a very fine swordsman. He's been taking lessons in Paris from Ouellet!::Richard Sharpe: Well, he can take lessons in Spain from me.
La Marquesa: Good bye, Raoul. Come soon! (she leaves in a coach) But then again you always do.
Wellington: If Sharpe is found not guilty the Spanish will never believe us or trust us again. They want justice.::Nairn: I think they should get it, sir... whatever the verdict.
General Pakenham: Major Sharpe, a gentleman you may not be but you will behave as one in this court! Do I make myself clear?
Father Hacha: Your husband is dead, Marquesa.::La Marquesa: I find it hard to tell the difference.
Sharpe's Company (1994)
Actors
Plot
Spain 1812. After Ciudad Rodrigo, Teresa tells Sharpe that they have a baby daughter. In Badajoz, the next siege target. Meanwhile, a new commander has taken over the South Essex, along with the murderous Sgt. Obadiah Hakeswill, an old enemy of Sharpe's from India days. But a new commander means a captain trying to turn the Rifles into red-jackets, and Sharpe's only hope to command his company again is the Forlorn one.
Keywords: adventure-hero, army, bare-chested-male, bare-chested-male-bondage, based-on-novel, bayonet, behind-enemy-lines, british, british-accent, british-army
Genres
Quotes:
Teresa: All men should have daughters. It puts honey on their tongues.
Wellington: I think you're a rogue, Sharpe. But you're on my side and one of my rogues. I don't want you dead.
[Hakeswill tries to rape Teresa]::Hakeswill: Now open your legs ever so wide, and lie still as a dead'un!
Hakeswill: What's to happen is, you will become proper soldiers. And draw tunics of the red bright light company of the South Essex, and you will hand in your precious rifle guns and draw proper muskets to go along with being proper dressed. Fit for soldiers at last!::[speaks into his hat]::Hakeswill: Never thought you'd see it, did you, Mother?::[speaks to men]::Hakeswill: You hate me, don't you? Well, I hate you.::[speaks into his hat again]::Hakeswill: I do, I do, I do. I hates 'em!::[rounds on men]::Hakeswill: Who said that? I heard that. Mad? Oh, no, I ain't mad. Not so's I don't know.
Richard Sharpe: That rifle's loaded and rammed, Sergeant.::Hakeswill: Sir?::Richard Sharpe: Did you know, Sergeant?::Hakeswill: Me, sir? No, sir, never, sir!::Richard Sharpe: This yours, Sergeant?::Hakeswill: No, sir. Not me, sir. Him, sir. Private 'Arper, sir!::Richard Sharpe: Well how many more are loaded? [puts rifles under Hakeswill's chin, pulls trigger, nothing happens] Harris! [throws him the rifle] Cooper! Hagman! Perkins! [threatens Hakeswill with Harper's volley gun] They say you can't be killed, Sergeant Hakeswill. It is known. 'Come with me, my lads, for I cannot die. I'm going to live for ever, for they tried to hang me once but did... not... do it.' I could almost believe it. Except in the case of someone you tried to kill, Sergeant Hakeswill... and did... not... do it. I wonder who that might be, Sergeant. You're a dead man, Obadiah. BANG!
[while talking to Harper on sentry, Sharpe hands him a bottle of whiskey]::Richard Sharpe: Here. St. Patrick's Day.::Sgt. Patrick Harper: God save Ireland... you're a grand man.::[takes a pull]::Sgt. Patrick Harper: For an Englishman.
[Harper, framed by Hakeswill for theft, is being flogged]::Drummer Boy: Ninety-three! Ninety-four! Ninety-five!::[Harper has spit out his gag and is grinning widely as the lash lands]::Drummer Boy: Ninety-six! Ninety-seven! Ninety-eight! Ninety-nine! One hundred! One hundred and all's done, sir!::[Harper is released. Still grinning, he starts to walk away]::Colonel Windham: Harper? Come back here.::Sgt. Patrick Harper: Sir?::Colonel Windham: You're a brave man. I salute you for it.::[He tosses Harper a golden guinea. Harper catches it]::Sgt. Patrick Harper: Thank you, sir. Thank you.::[He walks past Sharpe]::Richard Sharpe: You all right?::[Harper's grin remains, but his voice quavers]::Sgt. Patrick Harper: [whispering] Jesus, it hurts like hell! I couldn't have taken much more.
Richard Sharpe: Sgt. Hakeswill...::Hakeswill: Permission to speak, sir!::[pause]::Hakeswill: I've nothing to say, sir.::[drops voice]::Hakeswill: Oh my word, what a surprise... Sharpie.::Richard Sharpe: You are come to me?::Hakeswill: Ever such a long way. I was despairing.::Richard Sharpe: LEFT FACE!::[Hakeswill obeys automatically]::Richard Sharpe: QUICK MARCH!::[Hakeswill walks forward until he is facing the wall. Sharpe grabs his head and mashes his face into the wall]::Richard Sharpe: You lay a finger on any of my men, Sgt., and I'll bloody kill you.
Richard Sharpe: Come smartly to attention now. Atten-SHUN!::[Obadiah stands up straight - and Sharpe belts him, hard. Hakeswill bows over]::Sgt. Patrick Harper: Oh, now see, you don't move when an officer's talking to you. You should know that.::Richard Sharpe: Unless you want to hit me, Obadiah?::Sgt. Patrick Harper: Obadiah?::Richard Sharpe: Dead, if you strike an officer, Obadiah. Dead. Oh... but he can't die. See his neck? They tried to hang him once, and it didn't kill him.::Teresa: I can kill him.::Richard Sharpe: In every battle some try. Look how he stands up. Never disobeys an officer, do you, Obadiah? Why, they love him! I would kill him here and now. Except I swore to do it in front of his victims, for all to see. It's been a long time coming. For he is *evil*, is Obadiah!
Richard Sharpe: Obadiah, and a blackguardly officer called Morris, once beat a native Indian half to death, until I stopped them. They blamed me for it, and I was flogged. Watch him, Pat. He preys on the men. He'll snaffle kit, belts, frogs, haversacks, all entered or found lost by Obadiah, which leads to floggings unless he gets paid. Then wives. He beats men till their wives come to him, which I call rape. I've seen his like before. An evil man marching in a cloud of pipely. And because he kicks up salutes, obeys every officer, he's bombproof to all but us. We who come up from the ranks, we're smart to him.::Sgt. Patrick Harper: We are that.