Director Tom Clegg
Starring Sean Bean, Daragh O’Malley, Abigail Cruttenden
Rated M
Score 4.5/6

Told his battalion is to be split up due to lack of recruits at home, Sharpe and Harper return to England to investigate. What should have been a simple query turns politically explosive as they come nearer to exposing profiteering on the home front that could jeopardize the Wellington’s war.

This one was a little different to the rest of the series considering it is one of the few movies actually set in England instead of Spain, its also an example of Sharpe’s loyalty to his unit. Profiteering from war is something that as much as we might hate is something that will always happen, though I have to admit that it takes a special kind of villain to have the balls and creativity to pull off the kind of scam that was uncovered in Sharpe’s Regiment.
Something that I am starting to appreciate about the series is that the villains like Simmerson and Ducos are so easy to hate. It would be easy to dismiss this as some sort of class thing but that would be overlooking Obadiah Hakeswill brilliantly Portrayed by Pete Postlethwaite.
I enjoyed Julian Fellowes’ performance as The Prince Regent while Lieutenant Colonel Girdwood portrayed by Mark Lambert is the perfect example of a villain that is easy to hate.

Director Tom Clegg
Starring Sean Bean, Daragh O’Malley, Abigail Cruttenden
Rated M
Score 5/6

Sharpe, with his new commanding officer, is sent to capture a castle when news comes of locals who will rise against Bonaparte. However, he is somewhat distracted by thoughts of his wife whom he was forced to leave while stricken with fever.

This would have to be one of my favourite movies in the series, possibly because one of the most English things said in the entire series was said in this movie in an exchange between Harper and Sharpe. What seemed all the funnier at the time was that the punchline was given to Harper the proud Irishman. What also made this movie enjoyable was the return of Major Ducos who at this point in the series is clearly consumed by his hatred of Sharpe, a point a French General made how Napoleon chose his generals when talking about Sharpe and Colonel Horace Bampfylde story arc throughout the entire movie. This also has one of the more humorous final scenes in the entire series.