Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Sean Bean | ... | Sharpe | |
Daragh O'Malley | ... | Harper | |
Hugh Fraser | ... | Wellington | |
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John Tams | ... | Hagman |
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Michael Mears | ... | Cooper |
Jason Salkey | ... | Harris | |
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Lyndon Davies | ... | Perkins |
Hugh Ross | ... | 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 | ... | Ayres | |
Julian Sims | ... | 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.
I haven't watched any the Sharpe series in about ten years, but I picked two up from the library at random because I remembered them being so good. Unfortunately we watched this one first. Wow, that was pretty bad. The cheesy-ness factor was off the charts, and both the plot and some of the character reactions were way off base. My husband and I both called movie fouls on this one at several points. I seriously thought maybe I had remembered wrong and they were all this bad. Thankfully the other episode I borrowed was Sharpe's Eagle and my movie-addicted hubby convinced me to watch it. And so there was a happy ending and my faith in the overall goodness of BBC miniseries was restored.
But this one can be skipped with no loss.