Sharpe's Sword | |
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Based on | Sharpe's Sword by Bernard Cornwell |
Screenplay by | Eoghan Harris |
Directed by | Tom Clegg |
Starring | Sean Bean Daragh O'Malley John Tams Jason Salkey James Purefoy Emily Mortimer |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
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Running time | 100 minutes |
Original release | |
Network | ITV |
Release | 26 April 1995 |
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Sharpe's Sword is a 1995 British television drama, the eighth of a series screened on the ITV network that follows the career of Richard Sharpe, a fictional British soldier during the Napoleonic Wars. It is based on the 1983 novel of the same name by Bernard Cornwell, though it is set a year later (1813) than the book.