Sharpe's Peril (2008) (TV)

User Rating:

7.3/10   

Director:

Tom Clegg

Writers:

Bernard Cornwell (novels)
Russell Lewis (screenplay)

Release Date:

2 November 2008 (UK)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Drama | History | War

Plot:

Our story begins at the end of Sharpe's Challenge. Sharpe and Harper are en route to Madras when they...

Plot Keywords:

India | 19th Century | Fictional Biography | British Army | British Empire

Cast

Sean Bean	...	Richard Sharpe
Daragh O'Malley	...	Patrick Harper
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Amit Behl	...	Corp. Barabbas Hakeswill
Caroline Carver	...	Mrs. Tredinnick
Michael Cochrane	...	Sir Henry Simmerson
Jonathan Coyne	...	Pvt. Croop
Payal Ghosh	...	Padme
Martin Hancock
David Henry	...	Viscount Sedgefield
Raza Jaffrey	...	Lance Naik Singh
Deepak Jethi	...	Daffadar Kapoor
Rajesh Khattar	...	Subedar Pillai
Pascal Langdale	...	Major Joubert
Masumi Makhija
Himani Malhotra	...	Dhara
Jonathan Moore	...	Rev. Watkin
Ryan Pope	...	Quilter
Freyanshi Manoj Punamiya	...	Little Girl - 5 years old
David Robb	...	Major Tredinnick
Beatrice Rosen	...	Marie-Angelique Bonnet
Nandana Sen	...	Maharani Padmini
Steve Speirs	...	Wormwood
Ulhas Tayad	...	Chitu
Velibor Topic	...	Col. Dragomirov
Chucky Venice	...	Deever
Sameer Vidhate	...	Havildar
Luke Ward-Wilkinson	...	Ensign Percival Beauciere

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour

Certification:

Australia:M

Filming Locations:

Khajuraho, Madhya Pradesh, India

Company:

Celtic Films Entertainment

Trivia:

Aside from Sean Bean, Daragh O'Malley and Michael Cochrane are the only recurring Sharpe characters to return.

Goofs:

Continuity: When one of the Indian riders in the beginning slashes his sword against a villager's back, there is no blood on the blade afterwards, yet the villager falls as if killed.

Quotes:

Marie-Angelique Bonnet: [First lines] You, soldier. Dance with me.
Richard Sharpe: I do not dance.
Marie-Angelique Bonnet: Do not, sir? Or cannot?
Richard Sharpe: Will not.

Movie Connections:

Featured in The Making of Sharpe's Peril (2008) (TV)

Soundtrack:

Over the Hills and Far Away

Sharpe revisited

Though I personally much prefer Sharpe's Napoleonic series to these Indian installments (Challenge and Peril), but I still find the latest one Sharpe's Peril quite entertaining and really very well watchable.

OK, I wish the Indian installments were much closer to the Bernard Cornwell's books, that is if they happened in due time (before Napoleonic wars) and order (somehow in Challenge and Peril they've mixed as much from Indian set of books as they possibly could, though not always for good), but it is still a very great Sharpe's adventure. Just as usual - some quest for good old Sharpe, some girl's heart to win over, and some baddies to defeat. If that is still not enough a reason for you to watch this Sharpe's adventure, maybe a magic word - Simmerson - would do the trick. It did worked for me (And thAaaat was soooo great!). And the very last encounter of Sharpe and Simmerson! One should not miss it, that I'm sure of.