A Tale of Two Cities

TCM's Dave Karger introduces A Tale Of Two Cities, 1935.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces A Tale Of Two Cities, 1935.

Famous opening from Charles Dickens, followed by Cruncher (Billy Bevan) delivering his obscure message to Lowry (Claude Gillingwater), in the David Selznick production of A Tale Of Two Cities, 1935, starring Ronald Colman.

Dragged to Christmas services by Lucie (Elizabeth Allen) drunken lawyer Sidney Carton (Ronald Colman) declines further invitation, in David O. Selznick's A Tale Of Two Cities, 1935, directed by Jack Conway.

Speedy scenes introducing the hated Marquis St. Evermonde (Basil Rathbone) and incidentally his nephew Charles Darnay (Donald Woods) in pre-revolutionary France, in David O. Selznick's A Tale Of Two Cities, 1935.

Typically exquisite first appearance by Ronald Colman (as lawyer Sidney Carton) with his blustery but sober partner Stryver (Reginald Owen), in David O. Selznick's A Tale Of Two Cities, 1935, from the Charles Dickens novel.

Darnay (Donald Woods), found not guilty, invites his lawyer Carton (Ronald Colman) to dine, not realizing his misanthropic tendencies, in a scene thick with Dickensian language, from David O. Selznick's A Tale Of Two Cities, 1935.

Ronald Colman stars in A Tale of Two Cities (1935), Charles Dickens' classic story of two men in love with the same woman during the French Revolution.