Padme's Library: 📘🎥Friday's Film Adaptation🎥📘: Sharpe's Enemy by Bernoard Cornwell

Friday, March 8, 2019

📘🎥Friday's Film Adaptation🎥📘: Sharpe's Enemy by Bernoard Cornwell

Summary:
Major Sharpe, in the bitter winter, must attempt a desperate rescue and face his most implacable enemy.

Newly promoted, he is given the task of rescuing a group of well-born women, held hostage high in the mountains by a rabble of deserters. And one of the renegades is Sergeant Hakeswill, Sharpe’s bitter enemy.

Sharpe has only the support of his own company and the new Rocket Troop – the last word in military incompetence – but he cannot afford to contemplate defeat. For to surrender or to fail would mean the end of the war for the Allied armies…

Soldier, hero, rogue – Sharpe is the man you always want on your side. Born in poverty, he joined the army to escape jail and climbed the ranks by sheer brutal courage. He knows no other family than the regiment of the 95th Rifles whose green jacket he proudly wears.

Portugal 1813
Action and romance follow Sharpe as his chosen men risk their lives on dangerous and heroic missions. Sharpe has to do battle with a gang of deserters led by an evil renegade, who uses hostages - including Sharpe's old flame - as innocent pawns in his wicked game to win a ransom. This is only the beginning of the problems facing Sharpe. A far greater threat is on the horizon. One where failure would mean the end of the war for the Allied armies.

Release Date: May 21, 1995
Release Time: 90 minutes

Cast:
Sean Bean as Richard Sharpe
Daragh O'Malley as Sergeant Patrick Harper
Hugh Fraser as Sir Arthur Wellesley
Michael Byrne as Major Nairn
Pete Postlethwaite as Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill
Assumpta Serna as Comandante Teresa Moreno
Jeremy Child as Sir Augustus Farthingdale
Elizabeth Hurley as Isabella, Lady Farthingdale
Helena Michell as Sarah Dubreton
Tony Haygarth as Pot-au-Feu
Michael Mears as Rifleman Francis Cooper
John Tams as Rifleman Daniel Hagman
Jason Salkey as Rifleman Harris
Lyndon Davies as Rifleman Perkins
Philip Whitchurch as Captain William Frederickson
Féodor Atkine as Major Pierre Ducos
François Guétary as Colonel Dubreton
Nicholas Rowe as Lieutenant Gilliand
Vincent Grass as General Chaumier
Diana Perez as Ramona
Morgan Jones as Kelly
Iain Glass as Sergeant Rossner

Cornwell's series charts Richard Sharpe's progress in the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars. He begins in Sharpe's Tiger as a Private in the 33rd Regiment of foot, who becomes a Sergeant by the end of the book, and an Ensign in the 74th Regiment who is transferred to the newly formed 95th Rifles as a Second-Lieutenant during Sharpe's Trafalgar. He is gradually promoted through the ranks, finally becoming a Lieutenant Colonel in Sharpe's Waterloo.

Sharpe's Rifles / Sharpe's Eagle / Sharpe's Company

Author Bio:
Bernard Cornwell was born in London in 1944 - a 'warbaby' - whose father was a Canadian airman and mother in Britain's Women's Auxiliary Air Force. He was adopted by a family in Essex who belonged to a religious sect called the Peculiar People (and they were), but escaped to London University and, after a stint as a teacher, he joined BBC Television where he worked for the next 10 years. He began as a researcher on the Nationwide programme and ended as Head of Current Affairs Television for the BBC in Northern Ireland. It was while working in Belfast that he met Judy, a visiting American, and fell in love. Judy was unable to move to Britain for family reasons so Bernard went to the States where he was refused a Green Card. He decided to earn a living by writing, a job that did not need a permit from the US government - and for some years he had been wanting to write the adventures of a British soldier in the Napoleonic wars - and so the Sharpe series was born. Bernard and Judy married in 1980, are still married, still live in the States and he is still writing Sharpe.