Tale of Two Cities A (1935)

Producer David O. Selznick’s great screen version of this Charles Dickens classic received an Oscar nomination for Best Picture and stars Ronald Colman Elizabeth Allan Reginald Owen Basil Rathbone Donald Woods and Edna May Oliver (love her!) among others. Editor Conrad Nervig (Eskimo (1933)) was also nominated. The film opens with Colman as the man facing the guillotine who tells the story in flashback. He is actually a lawyer who is sacrificing himself for another because of relationships he’d developed detailed in the telling in addition to his own low assessment of his worth. An interesting story around the time of the French Revolution. It was directed by Jack Conway with a screenplay by W.P. Lipscomb (who would go on to share an Oscar for his work on Pygmalion (1938)) and S.N. Behrman.

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