A Tale of Two Cities (1958)
Country: GB
Technical: bw 117m
Director: Ralph Thomas
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Dorothy Tutin, Cecil Parker, Christopher Lee, Donald Pleasence, Rosalie Crutchley
Synopsis:
A dissolute young lawyer falls in love with the daughter of a former Bastille prisoner and goes to the guillotine in the place of the worthy man of substance who wins her.
Review:
Very well acted, handsomely mounted adaptation from a reliable post-war stable (Rank) and an excellent producer-director partnership. Shot in Bourges, it has one phoney-looking shot which is ironically the Bastille set constructed at Pinewood. A victim of new thrift at the studio, it was not shot in colour and had a limited number of extras at its command, some of them US servicemen. It is, however, a smooth, moving and suspenseful piece of storytelling, with Bogarde in fine form.
Country: GB
Technical: bw 117m
Director: Ralph Thomas
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Dorothy Tutin, Cecil Parker, Christopher Lee, Donald Pleasence, Rosalie Crutchley
Synopsis:
A dissolute young lawyer falls in love with the daughter of a former Bastille prisoner and goes to the guillotine in the place of the worthy man of substance who wins her.
Review:
Very well acted, handsomely mounted adaptation from a reliable post-war stable (Rank) and an excellent producer-director partnership. Shot in Bourges, it has one phoney-looking shot which is ironically the Bastille set constructed at Pinewood. A victim of new thrift at the studio, it was not shot in colour and had a limited number of extras at its command, some of them US servicemen. It is, however, a smooth, moving and suspenseful piece of storytelling, with Bogarde in fine form.
Country: GB
Technical: bw 117m
Director: Ralph Thomas
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Dorothy Tutin, Cecil Parker, Christopher Lee, Donald Pleasence, Rosalie Crutchley
Synopsis:
A dissolute young lawyer falls in love with the daughter of a former Bastille prisoner and goes to the guillotine in the place of the worthy man of substance who wins her.
Review:
Very well acted, handsomely mounted adaptation from a reliable post-war stable (Rank) and an excellent producer-director partnership. Shot in Bourges, it has one phoney-looking shot which is ironically the Bastille set constructed at Pinewood. A victim of new thrift at the studio, it was not shot in colour and had a limited number of extras at its command, some of them US servicemen. It is, however, a smooth, moving and suspenseful piece of storytelling, with Bogarde in fine form.