A Tale of Two Cities
by John Conway
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Actor: Basil Rathbone, Edna May Oliver, Elizabeth Allan, Reginald Owen, Ronald ColmanDirector: John Conway
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Closed-captioned, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: Academy Ratio, 1.33:1
Running Time: 126 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-10-10
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of A Tale of Two Cities
Movie Review: From the Producer of "Gone With the Wind".
Summary: 5 Stars
The story of a family and a friendship in the French Revolution of 1789.
Based on the history novel of the great writer, Charles Dickens, who wrote "Oliver Twist" and "A Christmas Carol". Good script, and some likeable characters. A lively drama. A couple large-scale scenes.
The French Revolution was brought by: prior kings spending the country's money on wars, failed crops, starving peasants, hopelessness of renters farming for the wealthy, the seeming unconcern of many of the rich, and Judges favoring the rich over justice (all we need today is crop failures). Some 18,000 to 40,000 persons were executed by guillotine during the French Revolution. It meant death to have been a member of the "uncaring" rich, to be an aristocrat.
King Louis XVI married at 15-years-old, his wife of 14-years-old, Marie Antoinette. Marie Antoinette had been sent from Austria, all alone, at 14-years-old, leaving family and friends, to marry a young man she had never met. It is no wonder she turned to pleasures. They became king and queen at 20 and 19-years old. The king, himself, said "We are too young to rule".
Some revolutions start with good intent, such as democracy with land reform; giving hoarded land back to the peasants to farm and own. Then in the confusion, evil men struck, seized power, and formed a dictatorship. So in Russia, in World War I, 1917, Lenin and Stalin did not start the Russian Revolution. Rather, men who sought democracy, began the Russian Revolution, and were murdered by Stalin and Lenin, who then usurped power, lied, lied, lied, and oppressed the people. The French Revolution started with some good intent, but, out-of-control, lack-of-values, led to mob rule, and murder of innocent people. The French Revolution gave rise to Napoleon Bonaparte ten years later. Napoleon would lead over a million Frenchmen to their deaths in war. Napoleon saw 600,000 men die in his retreat from Moscow during the harsh winter war.
This film also comes in a 5 movie set, of black & white, 1930's films, with: "Pride & Prejudice" (excellent), "David Copperfield" (very good), "Treasure Island" (good), and "Marie Antoinette" (some interest with sadness) within "Motion Picture Masterpieces Collection".
The "Scarlet Pimpernel"-1935 is an excellent film of this same subject, but much happier; starring Leslie Howard, who played Ashley Wilkes in "Gone With the Wind", and was a real-life spy in World War II; also starring the beautiful actress, Merle Oberon. A clever adventure.
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