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Sharpe's Gold (1995)

Sharpe's Gold poster
Directed by
Tom Clegg
Genre
drama film, historical film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 42m
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 31 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Richard Sharpe, a British soldier in the Napoleonic Wars, is sent on a mission to retrieve gold for the army. He faces dangerous enemies and difficult choices in war-torn Spain.

adventuroussuspensefulaction-packeddramaticgrittyhistoricalwar-tornbrisk

What happens

Sharpe's Gold is a 1995 British television drama, the sixth of a series screened on the ITV network that follows the career of Richard Sharpe, a British soldier during the Napoleonic Wars. Despite its name, the drama has almost nothing in common with the novel of the same name by Bernard Cornwell. Scriptwriter Nigel Kneale explained, "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." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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