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A Tale of Two Cities (Blu-ray)
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 2 hours, 45 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 10, 2006
- Originally Released: 1935
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Ronald Colman & Elizabeth Allan | |
Performer: | Basil Rathbone, Edna May Oliver, Blanche Yurka, Reginald Owen, Henry B. Walthall, Donald Woods, Walter Catlett, Fritz Leiber, H.B. Warner, Mitchell Lewis, Claude Gillingwater & Billy Bevan | |
Directed by | Jack Conway | |
Edited by | Conrad A. Nervig | |
Screenplay by | W.P. Lipscomb & S.N. Behrman | |
Original story by | Charles Dickens | |
Composition by | Herbert Stothart | |
Art Direction by | Cedric Gibbons | |
Produced by | David O. Selznick | |
Director of Photography: | Oliver T. Marsh |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 5/5 --
Best telling so far of classic novel w/fine Colman turn.
Video-Reviewmaster.com
Rating: 4/5 --
Selznick managed to create the cinematic equivalent of "the best of times" without a downside.
DVDLaser
Rating: B --
Selznick's last production before leaving MGM to form his own company, this lavish film is an eloquent version of Dickens classic, benefiting from Ronald Colman's suave performance and the studio's reliable stock company.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
Rating: 3.5/5 --
It's everything I expect from a Dickens adaptation: a grand, sweeping storyline; impeccable period costumes and sets; and colorful villains and selfless heroes.
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Goatdog's Movies
There isn't much doubt that when the movies discovered Dickens they got hold of Something.
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Maclean's Magazine
Rating: 4/5 --
Several of the big crowd scenes, especially the storming of the Bastille, are big-budget showstoppers with thousands of extras filling the frame in a way CGI still can't match.
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Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Product Description:
Lavish and well-acted production of Dickens' 1857 novel of the French Revolution. Ronald Colman plays the flippant lawyer who lends aid to the victims of the Reign of Terror. Academy Award Nominations: 2, including Best Picture, Best Film Editing.
Description by Warner Home Video:
Tale of Two Cities, A (1935)
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...." Charles Dickens' tale of love and tumult during the French Revolution comes to the screen in a sumptuous film version by the producer famed for nurturing sprawling literary works: David O. Selznick (David Copperfield, Anna Karenina, Gone with the Wind).
Ronald Colman (The Prisoner of Zenda) stars as Sydney Carton ' sardonic, dissolute, a wastrel...and destined to redeem himself in an act of courageous sacrifice. "It's a far, far better thing I do than I've ever done," Carton muses at that defining moment. This is far, far better filmmaking, too: a Golden Era marvel of uncanny performances top to bottom, eye-filling crowd scenes (the storming of the Bastille, thronged courtrooms, an eerie festival of public execution) and lasting emotional power. Revolution is in the air!
Ronald Colman (The Prisoner of Zenda) stars as Sydney Carton ' sardonic, dissolute, a wastrel...and destined to redeem himself in an act of courageous sacrifice. "It's a far, far better thing I do than I've ever done," Carton muses at that defining moment. This is far, far better filmmaking, too: a Golden Era marvel of uncanny performances top to bottom, eye-filling crowd scenes (the storming of the Bastille, thronged courtrooms, an eerie festival of public execution) and lasting emotional power. Revolution is in the air!
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- UPC: 012569793699
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