Sharpe's Gold (1995) (TV)

User Rating:

7.5/10   

Director:

Tom Clegg

Writers:

Bernard Cornwell (novel)
Nigel Kneale (writer)

Release Date:

1 July 2006 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | History | War

Plot:

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. |

Plot Keywords:

Napoleonic Wars | Military | Sequel | Fictional Biography | Based On Novel

Cast

Sean Bean	...	Major Richard Sharpe
Daragh O'Malley	...	Sgt. Patrick Harper
Hugh Fraser	...	Lord Wellington
John Tams	...	Rifleman Hagman
Michael Mears	...	Rifleman Cooper
Jason Salkey	...	Rifleman Harris
Lyndon Davies	...	Rifleman Perkins
Hugh Ross	...	Major Mungo Munro
Rosaleen Linehan	...	Bess Nugent
Jayne Ashbourne	...	Ellie Nugent
Peter Eyre	...	Will Nugent
Abel Folk	...	El Casco
Philip McGough	...	Provost Marshal
Ian Shaw	...	Lt. Ayres
Julian Sims	...	Lt. Barbier

Country:

UK

Language:

English | Spanish | French

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:TV-14 | Singapore:NC-16 | Australia:M | Finland:K-13

Filming Locations:

Ukraine

Company:

Carlton Films

Trivia:

Screenwriter Nigel Kneale said of his adaptation of Bernard Cornwell's novel: "I didn't use much of [the book]. I used the first ten pages, I think. Then I had an idea which would be more fun to do. It was all about magic by the time I was through with it."

Quotes:

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.

Movie Connections:

Followed by Sharpe's Sword (1995) (TV)

Soundtrack:

The Rogue's March

The low point of a great series

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.