Movie · 1935
A Tale of Two Cities
“The Immortal Story of Love and Intrigue During the French Revolution!”
Released 25 December 1935 126 min History / Drama / Romance / Adventure More from 1935 → IMDb ↗ · Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French doctor Alexandre Manette serves an 18-year imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, followed by his release to live in London with the daughter he has never met.
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How old were they?
Claude Gillingwater
as Jarvis Lorry
H.B. Warner
as Theophile Gabelle
Nigel De Brulier
as Aristocrat (uncredited)
Henry B. Walthall
as Dr. Manette
Eily Malyon
as Mrs. Cruncher
E. E. Clive
as Judge in 'Old Bailey'
Mitchell Lewis
as Ernest De Farge
Fritz Leiber
as Gaspard
Edna May Oliver
as Miss Pross
Torben Meyer
as Lackey #1
Reginald Owen
as Stryver
Blanche Yurka
as Madame De Farge
Walter Catlett
as Barsad
Ronald Colman
as Sydney Carton
Basil Rathbone
as Marquis St. Evremonde
Donald Woods
as Charles Darnay
Isabel Jewell
as The Seamstress
Elizabeth Allan
as Lucie Manette
William Ripley Dorr
as Background Singers (uncredited)
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The numbers
40years between the oldest and youngest billed
65Claude Gillingwater — oldest on the call sheet
25Elizabeth Allan — youngest billed
49average age of the credited cast