"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 have 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 Details
>Rated: NR
>Runtime: 2 hours, 6 minutes
>Video: 0
>Encoding: Region 1(US & Canada)
>Originally Released: 1935
>Label: Warner
Starring: Elizabeth Allan; Edna May Oliver; Reginald Owen; Basil Rathbone; Blanche Yurka; Henry B. Walthall; Donald Woods; Walter Catlett; Fritz Leiber; H.B. Warner; Mitchell Lewis; Claude Gillingwater
DVD Details
>Rated: NR
>Runtime: 2 hours, 6 minutes
>Video: 0
>Encoding: Region 1(US & Canada)
>Originally Released: 1935
>Label: Warner
Starring: Elizabeth Allan; Edna May Oliver; Reginald Owen; Basil Rathbone; Blanche Yurka; Henry B. Walthall; Donald Woods; Walter Catlett; Fritz Leiber; H.B. Warner; Mitchell Lewis; Claude Gillingwater
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