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 enlarge | Director: Jim Goddard
Actors: Chris Sarandon, Peter Cushing, Kenneth More, Barry Morse, Flora Robson
Studio: Live / Artisan
Category: Video
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Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 15394
Format: Color, Hifi Sound, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 156 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0784001308
UPC: 012236992431
EAN: 9780784001301
ASIN: 0784001308
Theatrical Release Date: December 2, 1980
Release Date: May 21, 1996
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Showing reviews 6-10 of 18
 dvd please May 6, 2005
Mrs. K. E. Watkins (england)
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
The acting in this version is superb. Please release this on dvd!
Great November 28, 2004
Michael Milligan (Kaysville, Utah, USA)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is my favorite movie version. All the actors and actresses are so colorful and real. Carton was played so well, with such pathos. Even the servent girl at the end wondering why she was dying, but trying to be brave. And Madam Defarge - such a hard woman - one I wouldn't want to face in a dark alley - but very convincing.
I absolutely love this movie.
Extremely Moving October 13, 2004
Anony Mous (Los Angeles)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
Unlike some of the other reviewers, I thought this presentation was far superior to the Ronald Coleman version. I believe that Chris Sarandon showed a much wider range of emotion and feeling in the Carton role than did Coleman. Moreover, the person in the Coleman version playing Charles Darney hardly resembled Carton, which was essential for one to believe that such an ending could occur. Further, in this version, I could actually believe that Carton had found some semblence of peace and joy in the sacrifice he had made--dying--so that the person he loved would be happy. Up to then his life was a mess--dissipation, cynicism, and recklessness. It shows how genuine love can sometimes turn a person's life completely around.
Not the same as the book, but. . . . June 16, 2004
Ruth Henriquez Lyon (Duluth, Minnesota USA)
18 out of 19 found this review helpful
. . .it was a good watch anyway. Chris Sarandon was outstanding in the roles he played of look-alikes Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton. He captured Carton's sardonic humor well, and evoked his melancholic fatalism and innate dignity with much pathos. A quite elderly Kenneth More put on a great performance as the officious but kindly banker, whose character provided much humorous dialogue. The character of Miss Pross, the sharp-eyed chaperone, was absolutely wonderful.
I never expect a movie to follow a novel very closely -- books and films are two completely different art forms and cannot be translated one to the other with good effect. As the movie begins we see the words "Based on the novel by Charles Dickens." With those words we are given fair warning that what is to follow is an interpretation of Dickens' vision.What this film did was capture what is so wonderful about Dickens' novels -- the alternation between the humor and the darkness at the center of much human experience. The scenes were knit together flawlessly, so that a rather complicated plot taking part in two different places came together without confusion or awkward transitions. The pacing was artfully done, and the last 40 minutes or so were very suspenseful. It's too bad the movie received so many bad reviews because it didn't follow the book. I've read the book and found it, like many of Dickens' works, to be wonderful, but also probably inaccessible to many readers. This film takes a good story and opens it up to those who may never open the book.
Loved It June 14, 2004
Mitzie Carvel (Olympia, WA)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is my favorite version of A Tale of Two Cities. I do not agree with the review that said it was "flat". I have seen other versions and think Chris Sarandon did an outstanding job. Dickens would be proud
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