A Tale of Five Cities

A Tale of Five Cities (1951)

They've Got Great Big Beautiful Ideas!

An Englishman has been working in the US so long he now speaks with an American accent. He is drafted into the British Army during WWII but is injured and loses his memory. Because he talks like an American, the doctors repatriate him to the States where he is housed with a New York family. After the war they all travel throughout Europe, searching for the women he still remembers in the hope of restoring his lost memory

Date of release
1951-03-01
TMDB
5.0 / 10 (9)
Runtime
1h 26m
Genres
Drama, Mystery
Director
Romolo Marcellini, Emil E. Reinert, Wolfgang Staudte, Montgomery Tully, Géza von Cziffra, Irma von Cube

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Paris

A Tale of Five Cities is a 1951 British-Italian international co-production comedy drama film directed by Romolo Marcellini, Emil E. Reinert, Wolfgang Staudte, Montgomery Tully, Irma von Cube and Géza von Cziffra. It was written by Maurice J. Wilson, Jacques Companéez, Patrick Kirwan, Richard Llewellyn, Alexander Paal, Piero Tellini and Günther Weisenborn.

Production

Shooting took place at the Riverside Studios and Walton Studios as well as on location around the various cities. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Don Russell, Jean d'Eaubonne, Fritz Jüptner-Jonstorff and Walter Kutz.

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