Search

Search only in certain items:

40x40

David McK (3562 KP) rated Sharpe's Justice (1997) in Movies

Jan 8, 2023 (Updated Jan 8, 2023)  
Sharpe's Justice (1997)
Sharpe's Justice (1997)
1997 |
6
6.0 (1 Ratings)
Movie Rating
There's only, I think, a single novel in the original run of Sharpe stories by Bernard Conrwell in which Sharpe spends most of his time in England.

That's Sharpe's Regiment.

As such, it never touches at all upon the impact of the war on the 'ordinary folk', which is exactly what this one (of only two) specially-written-for-TV episodes do, with Sharpe returning home to England, during the peace of 1814, with his reputation restored (following the events of Sharpe's Revenge) in search of his money which has been stolen by his unfaithful wife who is now having an affair.

Posted to the Yorkshire moors, Sharpe soon finds himself trapped between his corrupt employers and their downtrodden (and luddite, as they fear machines are taking their place) workers, reconnecting with those from his childhood and discovering along the way that some of them are closer related to him than he thought ...
  
Grace is an American visiting the Lake District in England to research the Romantic Poets. She stumbles upon Peter Fox lying face down in the stream, but she revives him. Then the next day she is kidnapped. What has she stumbled upon? This is a fun and fast moving caper with a great cast of characters.

Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2013/03/book-review-high-rhymes-and.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.
  
Beatrix Potter is checking out the property she just bought in the Lake District of England. But figuring out what to do with her tenants is the least of the problems. There have been a rash of burglaries and a woman died under mysterious circumstances. The book was cute but very slow.

Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2013/03/book-review-tale-of-hill-top-farm-by.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.