Sharpe's Peril (2008)

Actors: Sean Bean (actor), Michael Cochrane (actor), Dominic Muldowney (composer), Tom Clegg (director), John Tams (composer), David Robb (actor), Daragh O'Malley (actor), Velibor Topic (actor), Steve Speirs (actor), Martin Hancock (actor), Beatrice Rosen (actress), Malcolm Craddock (producer), Marissa Cowell (miscellaneous crew), Muir Sutherland (producer), Nandana Sen (actress),

Plot: Our story begins at the end of Sharpe's Challenge. Sharpe and Harper are en route to Madras when they encounter a baggage train from the East India Company traveling through hostile territory. Chitu, a legendary bandit leader in control of the area, strikes fear in the members of the party. When an attack occurs Sharpe takes control of the situation, leading the group 300 miles through enemy territory and training the disorganized, rag-tag group to be proper soldiers. Despite all these responsibilities, Sharpe still manages to find time for a little romance...

Keywords: 19th-century, adventure-hero, based-on-novel, battle, battlefield, bayonet, blood, blood-spatter, british-army, british-empire
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War,

Quotes:

Richard Sharpe: These people were farmers, Pat. No threat to anyone. Where's the profit in it?

Marie-Angelique Bonnet: [First lines] You, soldier. Dance with me.::Richard Sharpe: I do not dance.::Marie-Angelique Bonnet: Do not, sir? Or cannot?::Richard Sharpe: Will not.

Patrick Harper: [watches Sharpe get slapped by a noblewoman] Still have your way with the ladies, then?

Richard Sharpe: If it's gratitude you're after, you've joined the wrong army.

Richard Sharpe: I am no longer in the service of His Majesty. My business in India concluded I am for Calcutta to England.::Viscount Sedgefield: I cannot persuade you? Well perhaps then, you might at least be prevailed upon to perform one last duty? In which case I assure you there is no trouble to yourself.::Richard Sharpe: Aye. If I can.

Richard Sharpe: [Preparing to bleed a horse] Keep the bugger still, Pat!

Wormwood: [Glances down] That's elephant shit. [Sharpe steps around it in surprise]

Marie-Angelique Bonnet: You mean to leave me here? In the company of common soldiers!::Richard Sharpe: Good practice, I'd have thought. You're set to marry one aren't you?::Marie-Angelique Bonnet: Major Joubert is a gentleman.::Richard Sharpe: Aye, well God help him.

Richard Sharpe: Sooner an honest murderer, than a man should steal from his mates.

Subedar Pillai: I would rest easier that we had a professional soldier with us.

Sharpe's Challenge (2006)

Actors: Aurélien Recoing (actor), Sean Bean (actor), Thierry Hancisse (actor), Graham McTavish (actor), Michael Cochrane (actor), Toby Stephens (actor), John Tams (composer), Dominic Muldowney (composer), Tom Clegg (director), Daragh O'Malley (actor), Hugh Fraser (actor), Peter-Hugo Daly (actor), Richard Bonehill (miscellaneous crew), Caroline O'Reilly (miscellaneous crew), Michael Elwyn (actor),

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

Quotes:

Richard Sharpe: You want me to go back to India?

William Dodd: Your army, is going to be utterly destroyed!

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!

Sharpe's Regiment (1996)

Actors: Julian Fellowes (actor), Sean Bean (actor), Nicholas Farrell (actor), Norman Rossington (actor), John Savident (actor), Keith Palmer (editor), Michael Cochrane (actor), James Laurenson (actor), Alexander Armstrong (actor), Tom Clegg (director), John Tams (actor), Dominic Muldowney (composer), John Tams (composer), Daragh O'Malley (actor), Robin Fraser-Paye (costume designer),

Plot: Sharpe is horrified to be told that his regiment,the South Essex,is to be disbanded and discovers a plot whereby corrupt war minister Fenner and other high ranking militarists auction off soldiers privately,keeping the profits but still claiming on paper that the regiments exist. Having gained the ear of the eccentric Prince of Wales who orders Fenner to give him a new regiment Sharpe is now in danger from Fenner and he and Harper survive an attempt to kill them. Putting it about that they are dead they enlist,using assumed names,in the South Essex,falling foul of vicious Sergeant Lynch and paranoid Colonel Girdwood who abuse the naive young recruits. After Harper is ordered to be shot he and Sharpe escape,helped by Jane Gibbons,whose sadistic,corrupt uncle Simmerson,who also benefits by the auction scam,intends to marry her to Girdwood. Jane knows that her uncle keeps a ledger containing all the illegal transactions,which Sharpe must obtain to bring down the miscreants. Just when it looks as if he and Jane have failed help comes from an unexpected quarter and, as a result, Sharpe's battalion is restored on the prince's orders and Sharpe and Jane are engaged.

Keywords: adventure-hero, attack, based-on-book, based-on-novel, battle, battlefield, bayonet, behind-enemy-lines, british, british-accent
Genres: Action, Adventure, History, War,

Quotes:

Harper: [after Sharpe has faked their deaths] So, er, what do we do with ourselves now that we're no more?

Lady Anne Camoynes: Mister Sharpe, you are most remiss.

Charlie Weller: [speaking about the French] Then they must be quaking in terror!::Major Richard Sharpe: Oh they are, Charlie. They know they face us!

[repeated line]::Sgt. Lynch: Filth!

Prince Regent: How'd you do?::Major Richard Sharpe: [nervous] Eh?... Your Majesty...::Prince Regent: What d'you say? What d'you say? Did you say 'eh'? [turns to entourage] He said 'eh'! [he and entourage laugh]::Prince Regent: What are you doing in rifle green if you're South Essex? Ain't they red?::Major Richard Sharpe: Y-yes sir, your majesty sir...::Prince Regent: [beckons Sharpe forward] Come up, come up. [Sharpe approaches] Now look Sharpe! [he laughs] May I call you Dick?::Major Richard Sharpe: Uh... honoured sir.::Prince Regent: Call me... well call me your royal Highness, but damn me the honour is entirely mine, Dick!

Marriott: [Sharpe has saved him from drowning after he attempts desertion; he is being pulled to shore by Sharpe] No! I must not be flogged! She will not have me! I MUST not be flogged.::Major Richard Sharpe: [Sgt. Lynch shoots Marriot, to Harper and Sharpe's shock] You will not be now.::Sgt. Major Patrick Harper: [grabs Lynch] Treachurous murdering filth! By God the fact that you're an Irishman is terrible. Terrible!

Major General Ross: Your regiment's to be broken up.::Major Richard Sharpe: What!::Major General Ross: Lord Fenner suggested your men be given to other battalions, that your colours be sent home, and that your officers either exchange their regiments, sell their commissions, or make themselves available for our disposal.

Lord Fenner: I find myself in your debt, so to speak.::Lady Anne Camoynes: Major Sharpe seems very determined.::Lord Fenner: How did he perform? Was he... churlish? Ardent? Hasty? Bruising? Grateful?

Sgt. Horatio Havercamp: Regiment. Where'd ye serve?::Major Richard Sharpe: 33rd. India.::Sgt. Horatio Havercamp: You didn't desert?::Major Richard Sharpe: I wasn't caught, so I didn't.

Major Richard Sharpe: Can I trust you Smith?::Capt. Smith: Yes. I was always uneasy. Always sir. But I'd been purchased over several times. I obtained a Captaincy I could not afford.::Major Richard Sharpe: I know what that means, Smith.

Sharpe's Gold (1995)

Actors: Sean Bean (actor), Abel Folk (actor), Ted Childs (producer), Peter Eyre (actor), Robin Sales (editor), Tom Clegg (director), John Tams (actor), Dominic Muldowney (composer), John Tams (composer), Daragh O'Malley (actor), Hugh Fraser (actor), Peter-Hugo Daly (actor), Hugh Ross (actor), Robin Fraser-Paye (costume designer), Nigel Kneale (writer),

Genres: Action, Adventure, History, War,

Quotes:

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 Sword (1995)

Actors: John Kavanagh (actor), Sean Bean (actor), Vernon Dobtcheff (actor), Ted Childs (producer), Pat Laffan (actor), Patrick Fierry (actor), Emily Mortimer (actress), Michael Cochrane (actor), James Purefoy (actor), Stephen Moore (actor), Robin Sales (editor), John Tams (actor), John Tams (composer), Dominic Muldowney (composer), Tom Clegg (director),

Genres: Action, Adventure, History, War,

Quotes:

[Harper is wounded]::Patrick Harper: Am I going to die this time, Father?::Father Curtis: Yes, my son. Have you any last wishes?::Patrick Harper: I wish I'd married Ramona, Father.::Father Curtis: I can grant you that before you go. Quickly, now. Do you Patrick Harper take this woman to be your lawful wedded wife? Say "I do!"::Patrick Harper: I do.::Father Curtis: Do you Ramona Gonzales take this man to be your husband? Say "I do!"::Ramona: I do.::Father Curtis: I now pronounce you man and wife. Now, get up and kiss the bride.::Patrick Harper: I thought you said I was going to die, Father!::Father Curtis: Sure, we're ALL going to die, Patrick.

Richard Sharpe: Take my advice, Harris. When you get home, write a bloody good book with loads of shooting in it. You'll die a rich man.

Rifleman Hagman: Permission to speak sir?::Rifleman Hagman: [hands Sharpe a bundle from his pocket] Best brown paper and paraffin oil, it's for your wound.::Richard Sharpe: Thank you Hagman.

Lord Jack Spears: I suppose they'll shoot me?::Richard Sharpe: I suppose so.::Lord Jack Spears: I didn't do it for the money Richard. Though it would have been damned useful.::Richard Sharpe: So why did you do it Jack?::Lord Jack Spears: Courage. It's like the King's Shilling, Richard. Some soldiers save it, some soldiers spend it all in one day. I told you my life was saved by a French doctor. Well the doctor was Colonel Leroux, and he saved my life simply by virtue of the fact that he stopped torturing me before I died. And I just couldn't stand it anymore. See I had spent the whole coin of courage. And then he made me sign some papers, betraying my honour, and the honour of a lady I once loved. And I could not let him use that, so I became his spy, ridiculous as this sounds to you Richard.

Colonel Sir Henry Simmerson: What's it to you priest? You hate the British!::Father Curtis: I'm Irish. John Bull's a bad neighbour, but Bonaparte's a bully, and so are you!

Major Mungo Munro: [he has just finished a bagpipe solo] Which would you prefer me to do, Sharpe? Play Beallagh na Bruga, that's the Munro march... or send you on a dangerous mission?::Richard Sharpe: Dangerous mission, sir.::Major Mungo Munro: Who's winning the war, Sharpe?::Richard Sharpe: Wellington, sir.::Major Mungo Munro: Why's he winning it, Sharpe?::Richard Sharpe: Steady troops, sir.::Major Mungo Munro: Superior intelligence, Sharpe. Supplied by whom, laddie?::Richard Sharpe: Men like you, sir.::Major Mungo Munro: [disgusted:] Och, don't *lick* me, laddie!

Richard Sharpe: [Leroux claims he can't speak English] See if you understand this, on the count of three I'm gonna kick you in the crotch!

Lord Jack Spears: [charges for the French] Up and at 'em, boys, up and at 'em!::Patrick Harper: Silly bugger!::Richard Sharpe: Aye, brave silly bugger though. Let's give him a hand before he gets killed.

Colonel Berkeley: Good shooting, Sharpe!

Lord Jack Spears: Ain't you the Simmerson that lost the King's Colours?::Colonel Sir Henry Simmerson: There was a full inquiry my lord, I was completely exonerated. Allow me to shake you by the hand my lord.::Lord Jack Spears: Ah, so you didn't lose them, you misplaced them. As it seems you have the most unfortunate habit of losing things, I think I'll hold onto me one good hand.

Sharpe's Company (1994)

Actors: Marc Warren (actor), Sean Bean (actor), Michael Byrne (actor), Ted Childs (producer), Assumpta Serna (actress), Scott Cleverdon (actor), Pete Postlethwaite (actor), Nicholas Jones (actor), Tom Clegg (director), Robin Sales (editor), Dominic Muldowney (composer), John Tams (composer), John Tams (actor), Daragh O'Malley (actor), Hugh Fraser (actor),

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: Action, Adventure, History, War,

Quotes:

Teresa: [In Spanish] My daughter is ill and all you can do is cry!

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!

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?

Sharpe's Eagle (1993)

Actors: Sean Bean (actor), Ted Childs (producer), Brian Cox (actor), Assumpta Serna (actress), Daniel Craig (actor), Pat Rambaut (miscellaneous crew), Michael Cochrane (actor), Tom Clegg (director), John Tams (actor), John Tams (composer), Dominic Muldowney (composer), Robin Sales (editor), Daragh O'Malley (actor), David Troughton (actor), John Mollo (costume designer),

Plot: The South Essex regiment arrives in Spain,led by the cowardly,stupid Simmerson with his nephew Gibbons and friend Berry to whom Sharpe takes an instant dislike. Due to Simmerson's incompetence on a mission to blow up an enemy bridge the British standard flag is captured by the French. Simmerson tries to blame Sharpe but Wellesley learns the truth and promotes Sharpe to captain. After Sharpe has caught Berry and Gibbons trying to rape a Spanish girl he challenges them to a duel. Berry accepts but tries to kill Sharpe during a night patrol and is himself killed by Harper. Sharpe and his men pursue the French and succeed in capturing their standard,an eagle belonging to Napoleon.

Keywords: bare-chested-male, bare-chested-male-bondage, based-on-novel, blood, character-name-in-title, fictional-biography, military, napoleonic-wars, sequel, whipping
Genres: Action, Adventure, History, War,

Quotes:

Maj. Hogan: And what are your intentions, Sir Arthur?::Wellesley: Why, Hogan, I mean to give the French a damn good thrashing.

Maj. Hogan: [to Simmerson after the disasterous loss at the bridge] You've lost the Colours, sir. The King's own Colours, touched by his own hand. Now take my advice, and a pistol, and go behind that tent, and blow out what's left of your brains.

[Gibbons has challenged Sharpe to a duel]::Maj. Hogan: Oh, give me your hand, sir! You're a brave fellow, Gibbons! Sharpe's a killer! Killed three French cavalrymen and saved Wellesley's life - three seconds, slash, cut thrust! And that was when he was still a sergeant. Shall we say six o'clock tomorrow morning, in the field behind the camp? Or should we say it was damn dark, and you made a damn bad mistake?::Gibbons: Silly mistake. Say no more about it, eh?::Maj. Hogan: Good thinking, Gibbons. Sharpe would have shot out your left eye at a minute past six, and you'd have spent all day tomorrow looking up at nothing with the other.

[of the South Essex]::Richard Sharpe: They're flogged soldiers, sir. And flogging teaches a soldier only one lesson.::Maj. Hogan: What's that, Richard?::Richard Sharpe: How to turn his back.

Richard Sharpe: Those men who've fought in a big battle before, one pace forward.::[no one moves]::Richard Sharpe: This place is called Talavera. There's going to be a battle here tomorrow. You'll fight in it... maybe even die in it. But you won't see it.::[explosion]::Richard Sharpe: There's a lot of smoke in a battle. Our cannon, their cannon. Our shot, their shell. Our volleys, their volleys.::[shots]::Richard Sharpe: You don't see a battle. You *hear* it. Black powder blasting by the ton on all sides. Black smoke blinding you and choking you and making you vomit. Then the French come out of the smoke - not in a line, but in a column. And they march towards our thin line, kettledrums hammering like hell and a golden eagle blazing overhead. They march slowly, and it takes them a long time to reach you, and you can't see them in smoke. But you can hear the drums. They march out of the smoke, and you fire a volley. And the front rank of the column falls, and the next rank steps over them, with drums hammering, and the column smashes your line like a hammer breaking glass... and Napoleon has won another battle. But if you don't run - if you stand until you can smell the garlic, and fire volley after volley, three rounds a minute - then they slow down. They stop. And then they run away. All you've got to do is stand, and fire three rounds a minute. Now, you and I know you can fire three rounds a minute. But can you stand?

[Richard confronts Berry and Gibbons in the mess after they have raped and flogged Josefina. He throws a glass of wine in Gibbons's face]::Gibbons: I don't fight duels over whores.::[Richard replaces the glass, takes a second and throws it in Berry's face]::Berry: I do.

[During Sir Henry's toast at a dinner party in camp]::Countess Josefina: I'm getting some air. Good night, Major. Enjoy yourself.::Maj. Hogan: [whispering] I will! I've laid ten guineas with Leroy that Sir Henry will talk for a full hour. Five minutes more, and I'll have won my bet.

Wellesley: Sharpe, I can make you a captain, but I cannot keep you a captain. There is talk of an imperial eagle, Sharpe. There is talk of a promise made to the late Major Lennox. Swear to me on oath that the talk is just idle gossip, Sharpe, or by God, sir, you will walk out of that door a lieutenant.::Richard Sharpe: I swear on oath tha no one heard me make a promise in respect of an imperial eagle to Major Lennox, sir.::Wellesley: Colonel Lawford?::Colonel Lawford: Sir?::Wellesley: You may escort Captain Sharpe to the door, Colonel Lawford.

[Sharpe has challenged Berry to a duel after he and Gibbons have raped and flogged Josefina]::Wellesley: My orders are perfectly clear, Lawford. Dueling is strictly forbidden. I shall make no exception in respect of Captain Sharpe. If he fights Berry at dawn, he will be back among the ranks before the sun is up!::[Lawford opens his mouth]::Wellesley: There is no more to say, sir!::Colonel Lawford: Yes, sir.::[Wellesley walks over to Hogan]::Wellesley: French hopping about a bit, Hogan.::Maj. Hogan: Yes, sir.::Wellesley: Send out a patrol to take a look. Not too big. Eight men, two officers.::Maj. Hogan: I have done so, sir. About an hour ago. Captain Sharpe and Lieutenant Berry.::Wellesley: That should do the trick, Hogan.::[Lawford grins]

Colonel Lawford: [on Wellesley] God, Hogan. Horse, foot, cannon... the French outnumber us three to one. Does he know something we don't?::Maj. Hogan: He knows three things, Lawford. He knows that on his left, the French will not attack the fort. He knows that on his right, Simmerson will run. And he knows that in the center, that Daddy Hill will stand. Means nothing to me either, Lawford. That's why he's a general, and we ain't.

Sharpe's Rifles (1993)

Actors: Kerry Shale (actor), Brian Cox (actor), Assumpta Serna (actress), Simón Andreu (actor), Ted Childs (producer), Pat Rambaut (miscellaneous crew), Julian Fellowes (actor), Sean Bean (actor), Robin Sales (editor), John Tams (actor), Dominic Muldowney (composer), Tom Clegg (director), John Tams (composer), Daragh O'Malley (actor), Tim Bentinck (actor),

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 allowed to pick his own platoon of crack riflemen,led by the surly Irishman Harper and including Hagman and Harris,who resent Sharpe as not being a' proper office'r and mutiny,though they eventually come to respect him. Sharpe's group meet up with a band of Spanish partisans,led by a woman Teresa,with whom Sharpe is deeply smitten. Eventually they rout the French and rescue a trio of Methodist missionaries,one of whom, a woman,is actually Rothschild in disguise.

Keywords: 1800s, adventure-hero, adventurer, army, based-on-book, based-on-novel, battle, battlefield, bayonet, british-accent
Genres: Action, Adventure, History, War,

Quotes:

Teresa: We have two ears, but only one mouth; so a good leader will listen twice as much as he shouts.

Richard Sharpe: Gimme a pick-lock, Cooper.::Cooper: Pick-lock, sir? Catch me with a pick-lock!::Patrick Harper: They did, Coop. But when you got out of Newgate prison, you got another set, and that's the one the officer wants.::Cooper: Do I get it back, sir?::Richard Sharpe: Trust me.::Cooper: It's very hard to trust a man who wants to borrow your pick-lock, sir.

Teresa: If you were French, I would take a knife and you would tell me all I wanted to know.::Richard Sharpe: But we are allies.::Teresa: Allies? Do allies keep secrets from each other?::Richard Sharpe: Lovers keep secrets from each other, yet they still make love.

Patrick Harper: Now there's a woman worth fighting dirty for, sir.

Patrick Harper: Sweet is the silent mouth, Cooper.::Cooper: Didn't say a word, did I?

Patrick Harper: There are two kinds of officers, sir: killin' officers and murderin' officers. Killin' officers are poor old buggers that get you killed by mistake. Murderin' officers are mad, bad, old buggers that get you killed on purpose - for a country, for a religion, maybe even for a flag. You see that Major Hogan, sir? That's what I call a murderin' officer.

[Sharpe is asking his men about their pasts]::Sharpe: Well?::Harris: Harris. From Wheatley in Oxfordshire.::Sharpe: And previously?::Harris: A courtier to my lord Bacchus and an unremitting debtor.::Sharpe: You're a rake and a wastrel, Harris. Is there anything you *can* do?::Harris: I can read, sir.

Cooper: Can I ask you a question, sir? Where'd you learn to fight so dirty, sir?::Richard Sharpe: Same place as you, Cooper. Saturday night in the gutters.::Cooper: Long way from home, sir.::Richard Sharpe: Never was much of a home, Cooper.::Cooper: No, sir. That it weren't.::Richard Sharpe: Did you volunteer for this lot, Cooper?::Cooper: Uh no, not exactly sir. I was invited to join... by a magistrate.

[Inspecting the "Chosen Men", the company sharpshooters]::Richard Sharpe: Chosen Men, are you? Well, I didn't choose you.

Richard Sharpe: So... the Chosen Men, eh? Well, I didn't choose you. But I know you, you and your kind, all my life. All I know is how to fight. So if there's any man among you expecting a quick ramble through this war, now's the time.::[No one speaks up]::Richard Sharpe: You're sure, now? Right! Join the column, at the double!