Ronald Colman
Sydney Carton
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A Tale of Two Cities is a 1935 film based upon Charles Dickens' 1859 historical novel, A Tale of Two Cities, set in London and Paris. The film stars Ronald Colman as Sydney Carton and Elizabeth Allan as Lucie Manette.
A Tale of Two Cities: Directed by Jack Conway, Robert Z. Leonard. With Ronald Colman, Elizabeth Allan, Edna May Oliver, Reginald Owen. A pair of lookalikes, one a former French aristocrat and the other an alcoholic English lawyer, fall in love with the same woman amidst the turmoil of the French Revolution.
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- Drama, History, Romance
- Jack Conway, Robert Z. Leonard
- 1935-12-25
Just before the outbreak of the French Revolution, Lucie Manette, a French girl reared in England, is shocked to learn from the banker Barsad that her father, Dr. Manette, is alive, but has been imprisoned for eighteen years in the infamous Parisian prison the Bastille.
This adaptation of the classic novel by Charles Dickens finds courageous British lawyer Sydney Carton (Ronald Colman) defending French aristocrat Charles Darnay (Donald Woods) from false ...
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- Ronald Colman
- Jack Conway
- History, Drama
Ronald Colman stars in enduring classic story of two men, good friends who love the same woman and become caught in the violent upheaval of the French Revolution.
The action switches between London and Paris on the eve of the revolution where we witness 'the best of times and the worst of times' - love, hope, the uncaring French Aristocrats and the terror of a revolutionary citizen's army intent on exacting revenge.
This is the story of a revolution, a revolution that occurred in France known as the Reign of Terror. The barrister, the town alcoholic and man of disrepute, is in love with a beautiful woman, who marries the aristocrat and bears a beautiful baby girl.
