A Tale of Two Cities
feature film, 1958.
DIRECTED BY: Ralph Thomas
CAST:
Dirk Bogarde (Sydney Carton),
Dorothy Tutin (Lucie Manette),
Paul Guers (Charles Darnay),
Marie Versini (Marie Gabelle),
Ian Bannen (Gabelle),
Cecil Parker (Jarvis Lorry)
SCRIPT:
T.E.B. Clarke (prema romanu Charlesa Dickensa)
PHOTOGRAPHY:
Ernest Steward
Synopsis:
During the French revolution, a young French girl named Lucie Manette falls in love with an Englishman, Charles Darnay. Sydney Carton, an English barrister who at one time defended Charles against accusations of treason, also happens to be in love with Lucie. However, neither Lucie nor Sydney knows Charles’ real identity: he is in fact an exiled French aristocrat. To further complicate things, his father, the marquis Evrémonde, is the main culprit behind Lucie’s father’s eighteen years in the Bastille.
digital, b/w, 117 min