Movie Cosmos - A Tale of Two Cities

Description:

Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French doctor Alexandre Manette serves an 18-year imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, followed by his release to live in London with the daughter he has never met.

Top Cast >

Ronald Colman

As Sydney Carton

Elizabeth Allan

As Lucie Manette

Edna May Oliver

As Miss Pross

Reginald Owen

As Stryver

Basil Rathbone

As Marquis St. Evremonde

Blanche Yurka

As Madame De Farge

Henry B. Walthall

As Dr. Manette

Donald Woods

As Charles Darnay

Walter Catlett

As Barsad

Fritz Leiber

As Gaspard

Eily Malyon

As Mrs. Cruncher

Nigel De Brulier

As Aristocrat (uncredited)

William Ripley Dorr

As Background Singers (uncredited)

E. E. Clive

As Judge in 'Old Bailey'

Torben Meyer

As Lackey #1

Claude Gillingwater

As Jarvis Lorry

Lucille La Verne

As The Vengeance

Isabel Jewell

As The Seamstress

H.B. Warner

As Theophile Gabelle

Mitchell Lewis

As Ernest De Farge

Billy Bevan

As Jerry Cruncher

Top Crew >

Jack Conway

Director

Dolly Tree

Costume Design

Douglas Shearer

Sound Director

Conrad A. Nervig

Editor

Charles Dickens

Novel

W.P. Lipscomb

Screenplay

S. N. Behrman

Screenplay

David O. Selznick

Producer

Herbert Stothart

Original Music Composer

Cedric Gibbons

Art Direction

Jacques Tourneur

Second Unit

Oliver T. Marsh

Director of Photography

Reviews:

barrymost (10/10)

A Tale of Two Cities was the movie that introduced me to the wonderful Ronald Colman. It's one of my all-time favorite movies, and also one of the very, very few that can get me close to tears. That classic, unforgettable ending: "It's a far, far better thing I do than I've ever done. It's a far, far better rest I go to, than I've ever known." It's a beautiful story of love, redemption, and self-sacrifice, from Charles Dickens' timeless novel.

Would I recommend? Yes, without a second thought.

2019-08-08