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Advantages: Superbly shot, great casting Disadvantages: none really!
I have to admit, i was absolutely gutted when this came out. I'd just spent a small fortune on the boxset.
On the other hand, I was chuffed to bits, sharpe was back!
It'd been a long time since Sean Bean had donned that uniform, and it shows - though it fits in perfectly with the storyline.
The storyline is loosely based on the book "Sharpes Fortress" - the last of the Sharpe in India series. In Challenge, Sharpe returns to India as a retired ... ...gets himself involved with the Incompetent Simmerson (the most hated of sharpes enemies!) and ends up posing as a redcoat deserter, to rescue the ailing generals daughter and save the day - though things go terribly wrong when a captured sargeant gives Sharpe and Harper away - and as always with Sharpe, death, mass explosions and screaming charges ensue!
Despite the fact that over a decade had passed between waterloo and challenge, Sean Bean and ...
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Advantages: Everything - plot, characters, acting, literally everything Disadvantages: Nothing...if I'm pushed I could possibly say that they are long for single episodes.
...is the first chronological film, Sharpe's Rifles is not the first chronological novel, which would be Sharpe's Tiger when he starts as a private, but the events described in that book are placed much later in the TV show.
DETAILS
Title: Sharpe's Rifles / Sharpe's Eagle [1993] Date DVD released: 29 April 2002
Runtime: 200 minutes
Number of Disks: 2
Format: PAL
Director: Tom Clegg
Main Actors: Sean Bean, Brian Cox, Daragh O'Malley, Assumpta ... ...period is quite extraordinary. Both Sharpe's Rifles and Sharpe's Eagle are se
