Ronald Colman
Sydney Carton
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Watch the trailer of A Tale Of Two Cities 1980, a classic adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel set in the French Revolution.
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.
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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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.
The classic Dickens tale of honour and sacrifice involving the cruel Marquis St Evremonde, his nephew Charles Darnay, who gives up his inheritance to protest the inhumanity of his family, and Sydney Carton, who gives up his life to save his friend. 261 IMDb 6.6 2 h 35 min 1980. X-Ray 13+.
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.
A Tale of Two Cities. 1980 · 2 hr 36 min. TV-PG. Drama · Romance · War. Based on Charles Dickens's classic, two men, one an aristocrat and the other a dissolute lawyer, fall for the same woman during the French Revolution. Subtitles: English.
A Tale of Two Cities: Directed by Ralph Thomas. With Dirk Bogarde, Dorothy Tutin, Cecil Parker, Stephen Murray. During the turbulent days of the French Revolution, Frenchwoman Lucie Manette falls in love with Englishman Charles Darnay, who's hiding his true identity and purpose.
When Darnay goes to Paris to rescue an imprisoned family retainer, he becomes entangled in the snares of the brutal French Revolution and is himself jailed and condemned to the guillotine. But Sydney Carton, in love with a woman he cannot have, comes up with a daring plan to save her husband.
In the most well-known adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel, Sydney Carton (Dirk Bogarde) is an underachieving English barrister who hopes to redeem himself from the litany of poor choices he's...
- History, Drama
