A Tale of Two Cities is a 1935 American romance drama movie directed by Jack Conway and Robert Z. Leonard. It was based on the 1859 novel of the same name by Charles Dickens and starring Ronald Coleman, Elizabeth Allan, Edna May Oliver, Reginald Owen, Basil Rathbone, Donald Woods, Blanche Yurka, Mitchell Lewis. It was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and was nominated for 2 Academy Awards in 1937.