Sharpe's Peril (2008) (TV)

Director:

Tom Clegg

Writers:

Bernard Cornwell (novels)
Russell Lewis (screenplay)

Release Date:

2 November 2008 (UK)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Drama | History | War

Plot:

Our story begins at the end of Sharpe's Challenge. Sharpe and Harper are en route to Madras when they...

Plot Keywords:

India | Soldier | Flintlock Rifle | Sword Duel | Hero

Cast

Sean Bean	...	Sharpe
Daragh O'Malley	...	Harper
Michael Cochrane	...	Simmerson
Velibor Topic	...	Dragomirov
Beatrice Rosen	...	Marie Angelique
Raza Jaffrey	...	Lance Naik Singh
Steve Speirs	...	Wormwood
David Robb	...	Major Tredinnick
Caroline Carver	...	Mrs Tredinnick
Luke Ward-Wilkinson	...	Beauclere
Amit Behl	...	Barabbas
Jonathan Moore	...	Rev Watkin
Chucky Venn	...	Deever
Ryan Pope	...	Quilter
Jonny Coyne	...	Croop (as Jonathan Coyne)
Pascal Langdale	...	Major Joubert
Nandana Sen	...	Maharani Padmini
David Henry	...	Viscount Sedgefield
Rajesh Khattar	...	Subedar Pillai (as Rajesh Khatter)
Himani Malhotra	...	Dhara
Freyanshi Manoj Punamiya	...	Little Girl
Ulhas Tayad	...	Chitu
Payal Ghosh	...	Padme
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Martin Hancock	...	(uncredited)
Deepak Jethi	...	Daffadar Kapoor (uncredited)
Masumeh Makhija	...	(uncredited)
Sameer Vidhate	...	Havildar (uncredited)

Directed by
Tom Clegg

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Bernard Cornwell		novels
Russell Lewis		screenplay

Produced by
Malcolm Craddock	....	producer
Paul Frift	....	co-producer
Alex Sutherland	....	line producer
Muir Sutherland	....	producer
Stuart Sutherland	....	executive producer

Original Music by
Dominic Muldowney
John Tams

Cinematography by
James Aspinall

Film Editing by
Chris Ridsdale

Casting by
John Hubbard
Ros Hubbard

Production Design by
Muneesh Sappel

Art Direction by
Henry Harris

Set Decoration by
Agnes Goveas

Costume Design by
Jacky Levy
Sujata Sharma

Makeup Department
Sarah Grundy	....	makeup designer
Debbi Salmon	....	hair & make-up supervisor (as Debbie Salmon)
Karen Teitge	....	makeup artist

Production Management
Eleanor Chaudhuri	....	production supervisor
Rajeesh Dham	....	unit manager
Heidi Mount	....	post-production supervisor
Chanpreet Singh	....	assistant production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Antara Banerjee	....	third assistant director
Sarah Dibsdall	....	second assistant director
Michael Mallinson	....	first assistant director
Charlie Reed	....	third assistant director

Art Department
Amit Lad	....	assistant art director
Kumar Rajendra	....	stand-by prop
Narayan Rao	....	assistant property master
Udai Prakash Singh	....	assistant art director
Aman Mohan Vidhate	....	property master

Sound Department
Robert Brazier	....	sound editor
Wayne Brooks	....	sound effects editor
Alistair Crocker	....	production sound mixer
James Harbour	....	sound maintenance
Sue Harding	....	foley artist
Colin Martin	....	dubbing mixer
Jatin Sarma	....	sound assistant
Rowena Wilkinson	....	foley artist

Special Effects by
Tony Auger	....	special effects supervisor
Garth Inns	....	pyrotechnician

Visual Effects by
Chris Mortimer	....	visual effects supervisor
Iain Read	....	digital compositor
Simon Rowe	....	digital compositor
Yolanda Rubio	....	digital effects artist

Stunts
Aleksandr Baranov	....	stunts
Richard Bonehill	....	sword master
Andy Bradford	....	stunt coordinator
Sergey Golovkin	....	stunts
Zed Korshoonoff	....	stunts

Camera and Electrical Department
Richard Brierley	....	focus puller: "a" camera
Sandra Coulson	....	clapper loader: "a" camera
Andy Kendall	....	grip
B. Durga Kishore Kumar	....	clapper loader: "b" camera
G. Monic Kumar	....	camera operator: "b" camera
Tony Nutley	....	still photographer
Ramesh Sadrani	....	grip
Satish Venkataramana	....	first assistant camera

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Steven Kirkby	....	costume supervisor
Narendra mohan Mathur	....	costume assistant
Shyamalee Sharma	....	wardrobe assistant

Editorial Department
Dan Coles	....	colorist
Nathan Cubitt	....	assistant editor

Other crew
Paresh Behera	....	accountant
Prasanna R. Coondapur	....	production accountant
Marissa Cowell	....	script supervisor
Suzanna de Miranda	....	production coordinator
Kaushik Guha	....	location manager
Victoria Hawden	....	production coordinator
Rachel Murrell	....	script editor
Lisa Neely	....	production accountant
Emma Olrich-Smith	....	production secretary
Abhijit SenGupta	....	horse master's assistant
Chanpreet Singh	....	location assistant

Production Companies

• Celtic Films Entertainment
• Picture Palace

Distributors

• Independent Television (ITV) (2008) (UK) (TV)
• 2 Entertain Video (2009) (UK) (DVD)
• 2 Entertain Video (2009) (UK) (DVD) (Blu-ray)
• BBC Warner (2010) (USA) (DVD)
• BBC Warner (2010) (USA) (DVD) (Blu-ray)
• Eesti Televisioon (ETV) (2010) (Estonia) (TV)
• New KSM (2009) (Germany) (DVD)

Other Companies

• ARRI Media  camera and grip equipment provided by
• Media World Logistics  production logistics (uncredited)

Also Known As:

Runtime:

102 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Australia:M | UK:15 | Ireland:15 | Germany:16

Filming Locations:

Khajuraho, Madhya Pradesh, India

Company:

Celtic Films Entertainment

Trivia:

The character Pvt. Daniel Deever (Chucky Venn) dies a heroic death, but it is just after he commits an act of cowardice -- abandoning his post and comrades in the face of the enemy. In 1890, Rudyard Kipling penned the poem "Danny Deever" about the execution of a British soldier for murder. To "do a Danny Deever" is archaic slang for committing a hanging offense; cowardice is among those offenses.

Goofs:

Continuity: During several of the battle scenes when the flintlock muskets are fired, neither the hammer nor the strike plate move, though we see spark, flame and smoke. The hammers are not even pulled back so the weapons can fire.

Quotes:

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.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "The Story of the Costume Drama: A Call to Arms (#1.5)" (2008)

Soundtrack:

Over the Hills and Far Away

Sharpe revisited

Though I personally much prefer Sharpe's Napoleonic series to these Indian installments (Challenge and Peril), but I still find the latest one Sharpe's Peril quite entertaining and really very well watchable.

OK, I wish the Indian installments were much closer to the Bernard Cornwell's books, that is if they happened in due time (before Napoleonic wars) and order (somehow in Challenge and Peril they've mixed as much from Indian set of books as they possibly could, though not always for good), but it is still a very great Sharpe's adventure. Just as usual - some quest for good old Sharpe, some girl's heart to win over, and some baddies to defeat. If that is still not enough a reason for you to watch this Sharpe's adventure, maybe a magic word - Simmerson - would do the trick. It did worked for me (And thAaaat was soooo great!). And the very last encounter of Sharpe and Simmerson! One should not miss it, that I'm sure of.