TALE OF TWO CITIES

Excerpts from the MGM production of 1935. Available only to schools. "A condensed school version based on the Charles Dickens novel. This version not only stimulates students in English literature to a further study of this classic novel but social studies groups will find interesting material in observing the characters of the aristocracy of France during the revolutionary period." Advisory committee

Lucie Manette (Elizabeth Allan) is told that her father is not dead, but has been a prisoner in the Bastille for many long years. She travels to Paris to take her father to her home in England. Lucie meets Charles Darnay (Donald Woods), a French aristocrat who is sympathetic to the plight of the French masses. Daray is framed for treason, but is saved by the cleverness of the dissolute lawyer Sydney Carton (Ronald Colman)