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| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | Release Date: December 25, 1935 |
Starring:
Basil Rathbone, Blanche Yurka, Donald Woods, Edna May Oliver, Elizabeth Allan, Fritz Leiber, Henry B. Walthall, Reginald Owen, Ronald Colman, Walter Catlett
Summary:
A pair of lookalikes, one a former French aristocrat and the other an alcoholic English lawyer, fall in love with the same woman amongst the turmoil of the French Revolution.
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Endearing, sumptuous 1935 adaptation of Dickens' sweeping epic set against the French Revolution. [15 Oct 2006, p.E10]
The historical details of costumes and settings are exemplary and the cast superb. Those best of times and worst of times must have looked much like this. [12 Jul 1996, p.39]
The first, and best, of the three versions of Charles Dickens' tale of the French Revolution. [05 Dec 2008, p.C5]
Vintage screen Dickens with a cutting edge: the French terror is vividly, hauntingly realised, all chaos and guillotine ghouls. [16 Aug 2000, p.23]
It's a creditable though unadventurous film, handsomely staged in the M-G-M backlot style for classics.
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