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DVD : A Tale of Two Cities (1935)In association with Amazon.comstarring: Ronald Colman, Elizabeth Allan, Edna May Oliver, Reginald Owen, Basil Rathbone directed by: John Conway  List Price: $19.98 Amazon.com's Price: $14.99 You Save: $4.99 (25%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Brand: Warner Brothers EAN: 0012569793699 Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: October 10, 2006 Running Time: 126 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: January 19, 1935 Sales Rank: 13341 MPN: WARD79369D Related Items:
Editorial Review: Description: "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! DVD Features: Other:Oscar?-Nominated Short Audioscopicks 2 Classic Cartoons: Hey, Hey Fever and Honeyland Audio-Only Bonus: Radio Show Adaptation Starring Colman Theatrical Trailer Amazon.com: Ronald Colman isn't even on screen for the most famous lines of his career ("It's a far, far better thing I do..."), but such is the power of the moment and the performance that everybody remembers it anyway. A Tale of Two Cities was the follow-up for producer David O. Selznick and high-class studio MGM to their hit adaptation of another Charles Dickens novel, Great Expectations. While not scaling the heights of that impeccable production, Tale gives a tight, straightforward reading of Dickens' story of the French Revolution. Colman plays the drunken romantic Sydney Carton, who pines for the lovely Lucie Manette (Elizabeth Allan) even though she marries former French aristocrat Charles Darnay (Donald Woods). Meanwhile, back in Paris, the Revolution erupts, and Darnay is fated for the guillotine... perhaps. Along with Colman's expert study in melancholy, the film is crammed with fragrant supporting players, such as Edna May Oliver, Reginald Owen, and the uniquely unsettling Blanche Yurka as the endlessly-knitting Madame Defarge. In a handful of scenes, Basil Rathbone makes the Marquis de Evremonde the quintessence of clueless privilege ("With what I get from these peasants, I can hardly afford to pay my perfume bill"). Journeyman director Jack Conway doesn't have the lovely touch that George Cukor brought to Copperfield, but Selznick hired him because "the picture is melodrama, it must have pace and it must 'pack a wallop.'" It still does. Footnote to film history: Selznick's assistant, Val Lewton, supervised the Revolutionary montage, and hired director Jacques Tourneur for the job; later they would team up on Lewton's great run of B-horror pictures, beginning with Cat People. --Robert Horton Average Rating:
 Rating: - The epitome of classicThis is a magnificent film of a wonderful book. The casting and acting are superb. Ronald Coleman as Sidney Carton has his best role. Edna Mae Oliver almost steals the movie as Miss Pross. She dominates every scene she is in. The lady who plays Mdm. DeFarge created a film character that any other actress could only envy. The storming of the Bastile had to be a major advance in epic filming for its day. Most importantly, this film represents a value and quality in film that is never equalled ... Read More Rating: - I can't believe itI cannot believe the movie got to my home so promptly. Everything the site said was true. The product came completely packaged and brand new. I can't say anything but positive things at it. Rating: - Greatest Version of A Tale of Two Cities Ever! This movie is by far the best of A Tale of Two Cities. It was made by the great MGM studios and David O. Selznick the same year and about the same time that they made David Copperfield was. I can only imagine how fun it must been creating these two wonderful films on the backlot at the same time. Many of the same character actors are in both pictures. This picture is the one I prefer. After all it has the wonderful Ronald Colman as the charismatic Sydney. How could Lucy prefer Charles over him? Ok, ... Read More Rating: - A Tale of Two CitiesPerhaps the line "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." shall echo in the recesses of my mind forever and always make me long for such a wonderful opening to a book as Charles Dickens did with his masterpiece "A Tale of Two Cities". However; if the book didn't enthrall me enough the 1935 movie absolutely glued me to this tale of heroism by an ordinary but incredible man. The ability exhibited in this movie to bring such vivid images to the screen like Madame Defarge knitting as royalties heads ... Read More Rating: - Tale of Two CitiesExcellent performance by actors especially Ronald Colman, Blanch Yurka and Basil Rathbone. Great story based on historic facts Browse for similar items by category:
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