Ducos

Sharpe's Revenge (1997)

Actors: Féodor Atkine (actor), Keith Palmer (editor), Sean Bean (actor), John Benfield (actor), Paul Brooke (actor), Leon Lissek (actor), James Laurenson (actor), John Tams (composer), Dominic Muldowney (composer), Tom Clegg (director), Daragh O'Malley (actor), Robin Fraser-Paye (costume designer), Malcolm Craddock (producer), Alexis Denisof (actor), Muir Sutherland (producer),

Plot: The war has ended but Jane,wearying of army life,is tricked by a greedy friend into returning to London and spending her husband's money. Meanwhile Sharpe is set up by defeated Major Ducos and charged with stealing the French imperial treasure. He is put on trial but escapes with Harper and Fredrickson and sets out to find the honest Major Maillot who was coerced into signing the false accusation. Ducos's men have Maillot shot but his widowed sister Lucille hides Sharpe whilst Fredrickson tracks down former foe General Calvet. Calvet allies with Sharpe to hunt down Ducos and regain the treasure. But Jane,now foolishly involved with fortune hunter Rossendale,may be harder to recapture.

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Genres: Action, Adventure, History, War,

Quotes:

Ducos: The war is over, Sharpe; apparently not for you.

[after Harper tells him that Jane has left him for another man, Sharpe waits about thirty seconds, then runs into the house and kicks open - literally - Lucille's bedroom door]::Richard Sharpe: Begging your pardon, ma'am. Your door was locked.

Lady Molly Spindacre: See, men are all the same.You marry them,you make a good home for them,but as soon as your back is turned,they're off to battle, and before you can say Jack Robinson, they're dead as doornails.

Calvet: How do I divide the cheese, by merit or by rank?Who gets the biggest piece?::Sharpe: You do.::Calvet: Because I am a general.::Sharpe: No, because I bloody hate cheese.

Sharpe: The Legend (1997)

Actors: Mark Strong (actor), Sean Bean (actor), Nicholas Farrell (actor), Pete Postlethwaite (actor), Féodor Atkine (actor), Julian Fellowes (actor), Simón Andreu (actor), Michael Byrne (actor), Scott Cleverdon (actor), Paul Bettany (actor), Brian Cox (actor), Daniel Craig (actor), Neil Dickson (actor), Marc Warren (actor), Oliver Tobias (actor),

Genres: Drama, War,

Sharpe's Enemy (1994)

Actors: Pete Postlethwaite (actor), Michael Byrne (actor), Ted Childs (producer), Féodor Atkine (actor), Assumpta Serna (actress), Vincent Grass (actor), Elizabeth Hurley (actress), Jeremy Child (actor), Tony Haygarth (actor), Sean Bean (actor), Tom Clegg (director), John Tams (actor), John Tams (composer), Robin Sales (editor), Dominic Muldowney (composer),

Plot: 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
Genres: Action, Adventure, History, War,

Quotes:

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)

Actors: Nickolas Grace (actor), Jay Benedict (actor), Sean Bean (actor), Ted Childs (producer), Féodor Atkine (actor), Michael Byrne (actor), Alice Krige (actress), Ron Cook (actor), Mark Burns (actor), John Tams (composer), John Tams (actor), Tom Clegg (director), Dominic Muldowney (composer), Hugh Fraser (actor), Daragh O'Malley (actor),

Plot: 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-splatter
Genres: Action, Adventure, History, War,

Quotes:

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.

[after Sharpe is believed to be hanged]::Capt. Peter D'Alembord: Damn waste, Harper.::Patrick Harper: It was damn murder, sir.

Patrick Harper: Can I ask you where we're going, sir?::Nairn: Over the hills, sergeant, and far away.::Patrick Harper: Right. Which hills and how far?

Bouboule 1er, roi nègre (1934)

Actors: Victor Vina (actor), Léon Mathot (director), Casimir Oberfeld (composer), André Nox (actor), René Pujol (writer), Joseph N. Ermolieff (producer), Hugues de Bagratide (actor), Joe Alex (actor), Darling Légitimus (actress), Julien Clément (actor), Georges Milton (actor), Aleksandr Uralsky (editor), Lucien Brulé (actor), Francis Didelot (writer), Tony Laurent (actor),

Plot: Georges Vinot nicknamed Bouboule, a colorful but naive Parisian, falls prey to a gang of diamond thieves. Not only do they manipulate him into smuggling stolen precious stones into Senegal but they have bought life insurance on his head, which means they are prepared to do anything to liquidate him. But Bouboule succeeds in thwarting all their traps and eventually decides to settle down in a Senegalese village, of which he becomes... king!

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Genres: Comedy,