Lady Camoynes comes to Sharpe's aid in taking down Lord Fenner & SImmerson. __ In the Peninsular War, a British sergeant is field promoted to a lieutenant in charge of a disrespectful rifle company.
The acting in this was amazing, but the scene in the book was even better. Sharp demands that Sir Henry simerson remove the colors from his home, and the general has a fit when he finds out they were there in the first place.
I like how Camoynes has to politely push Sharpe into asking for what he wants. Dude has no problem fighting a hopeless battle against french hordes. But maneuvering through the treacherous waters of court politics? Hopeless.
Should have asked for a promotion to Lt Colonel, as he is still just brevet Major and in theory could be reduced in rank to Lieutenant, as a promotion to and above Lt Colonel can't be take away, at least under the regs of the period.
@@timengineman2nd714 I always understood that the expression '... In Real Life ...', meant THE PERSON! Which is PRECISELY what I meant. So just in case you still do not comprehend, MICHAEL COCHRANE is a well known Pratt in his daily personal public life. The yanks refer to the female variety as 'Karens,' not sure what they term the male. Evidently it was why he was chosen to play 'Simmetson!'
@@CB-xr1eg Oh dear, what a PRATT you are! Just like Cochrane! Go away little boy, and grow up and stopping acting like a FOO KING BIGGER PRATT than your hero!
Rumpelstyltskin that he is. It’s just that I never would have imagined that Sharpe would get this much recognition on RU-vid. So Glad that it does; I love the humour in the comments section as much as the clips them selves.
I’d like to pay tribute to the actors that are playing the parts of the villains here and congratulate them on doing such brilliant jobs of making their screen personas so unlikable . It’s easy to fall in love with the hero of a show like this but if the actors playing the bad guys weren’t at the top of their game then you wouldn’t hate them as much as you do.
I love how the smug looks are wiped away from their faces. You would've thought that Simmerson would've learned his lesson about trying to outdo Sharpe yet he just keeps on forcing his foot in his mouth further each time.
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I noticed when Sharpe wanted Girdword to be sent to Spain instead of being able to resign his commission, Fenner looks like he actually chuckles there for a half-second. "That poor man..." sort of thing.
Demanding to serve under an incompetent superior officer and refusing to let him resign his commission before setting sail to Spain . . . That's not merely soldiering, but clever bastardry.
@@mymartianhome she was a good woman for him tho. As good as camoynes and Teresa were for Sharpe they had their own concerns that came before anything else and that included him. The woman he married however was extremely supportive. Iirc she was not particularly fond of the English initially, but ended up falling for an unassuming Sharpe why simply was trying to do the right thing as he stayed at her Chateau to heal. It is a pity however the price that was payed for that last relationship.
Just at the end of this scene, the general looks at Sharpe and says; "You told the truth sir?" Well of course he did! He's an officer in His Majesty's army, isn't that a minimum requirement of the job?????
@@Tahkaullus01 Yes I have. Only briefly, but wtf has that got to do with it anyway? I was commenting on a TV programme, regarding a line that has never made much sense to me. Are you suggesting that covering up gross misconduct and outright fraud is a normal way of life in the military?
I'm still saving up. Caroline Langrishe and Michael Cochrane have for years been my favourites. How they ever managed to keep straight faces I've no idea.
@@ack3145 I believe General Sir Barsten Maxwell was raised from the ranks and he was rankling at Simmerson's assertion that those raised from the ranks sat poorly. He sits like he was poured to the rank!
@@jamest1650 Simmerson was saying that men who are brought up from the enlisted ranks are overly ambitious and always starting trouble and that they never rest easy. The general felt insulted because he was also brought up from the ranks and responded to Simmerson by saying That he sits like he was poured into the seat entailing that he is very relaxed like a liquid.
@@ceberskie119 Does he not say "I sit like I am bored, sir!" Which also explains his explosive tone, and Simmerson's embarrassment? He's telling Simmerson to stfu.
@@cakecakeham5823 I dont believe so. Bored is a state of being that he would be currently in and he said was not am and was would me he is no longer bored. And if you look at the scene the thing that initially muffs him is when Simmerson says something about "plucking up from the ranks" he immediately looks over at Simmerson like hes about to rip his head off and chew on it.
British television at it's finest, right up there with Horatio Hornblower, Downton Abbey and Sherlock. It's heads and tails better than most of the tripe we have in America, with few exceptions.
I dare say my favourite book would be Rifles. But that may simply be bias due to being the first book in the series (chronologically it was as well) that I picked up and read some 18 years ago.
5:04 why does it hurt 1000x more coming from a well-dressed and dignified lady with icy blue eyes? i'd almost felt sorry for sir henry had i not known he bloody deserved it.
The image I have of a bunch of drunken aussie blokes swearing up a storm while wrestling crocodiles with Sharpe and cracking beers just has me rolling right now.🤣
5:08 "You can't afford her Simmerson". A good beginning for a "Stay in School, Be Studious and Get Rich" campaign to be presented to the local school board.
No, I believe he (John Savident) met a young (yet legal) man socially and they later retired to Savident's house, presumably to play Scrabble or an impromptu game of Twister, where it reputedly turned violent.... One of those 'confirmed bachelor' type stories that was intriguingly buried rather quickly nudge nudge wink wink and so on etc....
i love the fact they used a big horse and carriage folley sound to cover the vehicle traffic noise outside the windows. Still one of the best scenes from sharpe.
Funny, I never noticed that. It was a Sunday we filmed this I think, but we were in the City of London so a few buses perhaps. I was in this scene, and gave Michael Cochrane an aeromodeler magazine I'd had for years, with an article about him and his friend Tim Woodward in BBC 'Wings' way back in the 70s. It was a lovely few days...
Sean Bean should have married Caroline Langrishe, too, rather than Abigail Cruttenden. Would probably have worked out much more favourably than hooking up with the latter.
I'm new to the series. The acting is quite splended! Transports me to a place and time I never knew, but am now quite intrigued by. . Carry on, Thorpe. Carry on, indeed.
It is perhaps testament to Michael Cochrane's acting that I find Simmerson an utterly detestable fool of a man. Simmerson has pride where his honour should be, self preservation where his bravery should be, and for all the value he places upon being a gentleman, he is perhaps the most unworthy of the title that I can think of.
Still managing to get in a dig against Sir Henry Simmerson after your evil scheme has been rumbled and Lady Anne has turned the tables on you .... now that’s Fennering.
These are powerful men. He plays it well by only asking to serve in his appointed role. It means they see him as a pawn and the Lady as their real enemy. It keeps him much safer.
Then simmerson left the army and changed his name to Oliver stirling and moved to ambridge, before that he had the name of Cranleigh and loved the game of cricket,
General Sir Barston Maxwell was promoted from the ranks? That seems to be the implication in his response to Simmerson’s “you get dross from dross” speech.
It is now. Back then not so much. It was untamed with little infrastructure. As another example, you probably think being assigned to the Caribbean would be pleasant. And now it would be. Back then it was basically a death sentence due to tropical diseases.
Having a room of high ranking "gentlemen" over a barrel and only asking for what your superior officer (Wellington) wants, enough men to continue the fight and a return trip to that fight? Now, that's soldiering.
