A Tale of Two Cities (1935 film)

A Tale of Two Cities is a 1935 film based upon Charles Dickens 1859 historical novel, A Tale of Two Cities. The film stars Ronald Colman as Sydney Carton, Donald Woods and Elizabeth Allan. The supporting players include Basil Rathbone, Blanche Yurka, and Edna May Oliver. It was directed by Jack Conway from a screenplay by W. P. Lipscomb and S. N. Behrman. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture and Best Film Editing. The story is set in the French Revolution and deals with two men who are alike, not only in appearance, but in their love for the same woman.

On the trip across the English Channel, Lucie meets Charles Darnay Donald Woods, a French aristocrat who, unlike his unfeeling uncle, the Marquis de St. Evremonde Basil Rathbone, is sympathetic to the plight of the downtrodden French masses. Darnay is framed for treason, but is saved by the cleverness of the dissolute lawyer Sydney Carton Ronald Colman. Carton goes drinking with Barsad Walter Catlett, the main prosecution witness, and tricks him into admitting that he lied. When Barsad is called to testify, he is horrified to discover that Carton is one of the defense attorneys and grudgingly allows that he might have been mistaken. Darnay is released.Carton is thanked by Lucie, who had been a witness at the trial. He quickly falls in love with her, but realises it is hopeless. Lucie eventually marries Darnay, and they have a daughter. ........

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