BFS Video (Firm)
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sharpe returns to England and is ordered to the North where he is to command the local militia in a troubled town. It is here that Sharpe faces an agonizing decision - whether to side with the town's corrupt gentry or to support his own kind, the rough and tough of the world who are abused by their superiors.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
British officer Richard Sharpe is given the task of preparing the hitherto purely ceremonial Royal Irish Company for real battle. The commander's ambitious wife and false rumors of a massacre in Ireland complicate the job.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hunting for lost Aztec gold, Sharpe runs afoul of a local partisan leader (Folk); Wellington's cousin Bess (Linehan), searching for her lost gold-prospecting husband, shows up with her daughter (Ashbourne) and gets mixed up in the mess.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 319 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Captain Sorrell goes off to fight in World War I, leaving behind a wife, son and good prospects. When he returns from war, his prospects dim, and his wife deserts him. He then dedicates himself to assuring his son a bright future, no matter the costs to himself.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (173 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The sordid story of a young country girl whose life is slowly engulfed in a murderous love triangle. Desperate to be together, Therese and her lover conspire to murder Therese's husband and initiate a deteriorating series of events that can only end in tragedy.
10) Sharpe's rifles
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The adventures of a maverick British officer who fights behind French lines in Spain and Portugal during the Napoleonic wars.
11) Flambards
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 676 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Christina is sent to live with her domineering, crippled Uncle Russell and her cousins Mark and William at 'Flambards', a rambling, decaying mansion in England in the early 1900's.
12) Sharpe's eagle
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When the incompetent Sir Henry Simmerson (Cochrane) loses most of his men and his regimental flag during battle, Sharpe (Bean), spurred by the memory of a friend who was recently killed sets out for revenge. He is determined to capture the French mascot, a carved golden eagle which is carried into combat. Sharpe is also looking to a settle a personal score with two arrogant officers who have angered him at their mistreatment of the elegant widow Josefina...
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (approximately 17 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's the 1950's and Sidney "Pop" Larkin has managed to avoid paying taxes for practically his entire working life. He embarks on a number of ill-fated entrepreneurial ventures and his daughter causes more than one head to turn with her flirtatious ways. But the flamboyant Larkins are thoroughly devoted to each other in good times and bad.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Sharpe hears of Napoleon's return from exile he goes back to the Army. Placed on staff of the incompetent Prince of Orange he reunites with the Chosen Men and organises the defences for the Battle of Waterloo.
15) Sharpe's revenge
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After returning from the war Sharpe is accused of stealing Napoleon's treasture, after being set up by his long-time enemy Ducos. He's abandoned by his wife, convicted of the crime, and sent to jail. He escapes to seek justice.
17) Sharpe's sword
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sharpe is sent to protect El Mirador, Wellington's best spy, and finds himself a target of Colonel Leroux, a ferocious French swordsman who has been commanded to capture El Mirador. When Sharpe is wounded in battle, a mute French convent girl comes to his aid.