Starring: Ronald Colman, Elizabeth Allan, Edna May Oliver, Donald Woods, Reginald Owen, Basil Rathbone, Blanche Yurka, Isabel Jewell, Henry B. Street Date Febru/ available through the WBshop / 21.99 Just remember that activities like capitol-storming and public executions need to stay back in the 18th century where they belong.ġ935 / B&W / 1:37 Academy / 126 min. The show even has a connection to producer Val Lewton. This is the one where the Bastille gets stormed and a chortling hag cheers every drop of a guillotine blade. Selznick’s impeccable production hits all the right notes and even downplays the ‘save the royals’ sentiments. Heroes don’t come more sophisticated or noble than Ronald Colman’s Sydney Carton, nor as vile as Basil Rathbone’s Marquis St. Few ’30s classics have held up as well as this MGM blockbuster, a costume thriller that in spirit is quite faithful to the great Charles Dickens novel.
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