Actor: Elizabeth Allan, Edna May Oliver, Reginald Owen, Basil Rathbone, Blanche Yurka
Director: Jack Conway
Genre: Action & Adventure
Year: 1935
Studio: Warner Archives
Length: 121
Released: 02/09/21
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Format: Blu-ray
Misc/Special Features: NTSC, Subtitled
Language: English
Subtitles : N/A
DESCRIPTION:
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!
