Sharpe's Rifles

About Sharpe's Rifles

Portugal, 1809. Fast moving, hard-hitting action adventure filmed on location in the Crimea, Portugal and England brings to the screen all the danger, romance and sheer spectacle of one of the bloodiest periods in English warfare.

Sharpe's Rifles (1993) is a history tv movie film directed by Tom Clegg. Its themes are napoleonic wars, british army, and 19th century.

Sean Bean appears as Lieutenant Richard Sharpe, Brian Cox as Major Michael Hogan, Daragh O'Malley as Sergeant Patrick Harper, and Assumpta Serna as Comandante Teresa Moreno. At 102 minutes long, it arrived in May 1993.

The screenplay is by Eoghan Harris.

Sharpe's Eagle, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, and Napoleon make useful companions to Sharpe's Rifles. TMDB voters put it at 6.8 out of 10 across 60 votes.