Happy Birthday Napoleon Bonaparte!

Today, 15th of August, marks the anniversary of the birth of Napoleon Bonaparte. In order to commemorate the birth of Europe's greatest military leader / the megalomaniac Corsican tyrant (delete as appropriate), allow me to share one of his finest cinematic outings. Now there have been numerous outstanding portrayals of Napoleon on stage and screen, and many distinguished actors, including Rod Steiger, Marlon Brando and Herbert Lom, have donned the famous bicorne and shoved their hand inside their jacket. However, to my mind, the greatest onscreen Napoleon has to be Ian Holm in Terry Gilliam's Time Bandits. Enjoy!

"Alexander the Great, five feet exactly....Oliver Cromwell, the only man with any balls in British history, not a big man at all....Louis Quatorze, five foot two and a half....Charlemagne, totty little five footer....Attilla the Hun, five foot one an a half...."