Sharpe's Siege

About Sharpe's Siege

Winter, 1813. Sharpe marries his sweetheart, Jane Gibbons, but has to leave her immediately to go on a dangerous mission in the Pyrenees, to capture a French fort.

Tom Clegg's Sharpe's Siege is a 1996 history tv movie film. Its themes are castle, napoleonic wars, siege, and british soldier.

Sean Bean takes the lead as Major Richard Sharpe, Daragh O'Malley as Sergeant Major Patrick Harper, Abigail Cruttenden as Jane Sharpe, and Hugh Fraser as Field Marshal The Most Honorable Arthur Wellesley, The Marquess of Wellington. Released in May 1996, it runs 102 minutes.

The screenplay is by Eoghan Harris. It is adapted from a novel.

Sharpe's Enemy, Sharpe's Company, and Sharpe's Gold make useful companions to Sharpe's Siege, all filed under 19th century.