A TALE OF TWO CITIES (1958)

RALPH THOMAS

Drama Literary Classics Revolution 10th - 19th Centuries Romance Historical Recommended

Cast

DIRK BOGARDE DOROTHY TUTIN CECIL PARKER STEPHEN MURRAY DONALD PLEASENCE JUDY PARFITT STEPHEN YARDLEY CHARLES DICKENS

Plot

Ralph Thomas's very watchable adaptation of Dickens's tale of revolutionary France. Bogarde plays the melancholy, self-pitying lawyer Sidney Carton, who finds his metier in the daring rescue of a French nobleman. Bogarde's laconic delivery makes the film. Excellent.