Episode cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Sean Bean | ... | Maj. Richard Sharpe | |
Daragh O'Malley | ... | Sgt. Patrick Harper | |
Hugh Fraser | ... | Lord Wellington | |
John Tams | ... | Daniel Hagman | |
Michael Mears | ... | Francis Cooper | |
Jason Salkey | ... | Harris | |
Lyndon Davies | ... | Ben Perkins | |
Hugh Ross | ... | Maj. Mungo Munro | |
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Rosaleen Linehan | ... | Bess Nugent |
Jayne Ashbourne | ... | Ellie Nugent | |
Peter Eyre | ... | Will Nugent | |
Abel Folk | ... | El Casco | |
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Philip McGough | ... | Provost Marshal |
Ian Shaw | ... | Lt. Ayres | |
Julian Sims | ... | Lt. Jean-Luc Barbier |
Sharpe is sent on a mission to exchange rifles for deserters with a strange band of Spanish guerillas. He also has to chaperone two women looking for their missing husband.
This is good, vintage Sharpe, cocking his considerable snook at the usual authorities, hauled over the coals by Wellington, carrying all before him as the maverick officer risen from the ranks of the Duke's army. In this instalment Sharpe comes up against a ferocious partisan and a local legend of Aztec gold. Irish actor Daragh O'Malley is joined by the wonderful Rosaleen Linehan and Jayne Ashbourne as her comely daughter in a performance marred by a really terrible leprechaun accent and not helped by her slightly cringe-making, hard-riding, sharp-shooting character. The music by the wonderfully talented John Tams is as always one of the high points of the show.