A Tale of Two Cities (1953)
A dramatization originally for TV on the Plymouth Playhouse. Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French doctor Alexandre Manette serves an 18-year imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, followed by his release to live in London with the daughter he has never met.
- Date of release
- 1953-05-03
- TMDB
- 9.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 1h 0m
- Genres
- TV Movie, Drama
- Director
- Dick Darley
Casting
- Wendell Corey — Sydney Carton
- Wanda Hendrix — Lucie Manette
- Murray Matheson — Dr. Alexander Manette
- Carleton Young — Charles Darnay
- Esther Dale — Pross
- Paul Cavanagh — Mr. Stryver
- Norman Budd — Jerry Cruncher
- Ted Stanhope — The Judge
- Colin Kenny — The Baliff
- Whit Bissell — Host
- Judith Evelyn — Therese Defarge
- Robert Foulk — Ernest Defarge
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