A Tale of Two Cities (1935 film) Chaldecott is the last surviving cast member. (DOB 9/14/1928 - Age 90) Andre Sennwald wrote in "The New York Times" of December 26, 1935: "Having given us 'David Copperfield', Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer now heaps up more Dickensian magic with a prodigally stirring production of 'A Tale of Two Cities' ... For more than two hours it crowds the screen with beauty and excitement, sparing nothing in its recital of the Englishmen who were caught up in the blood and terror of the French Revolution ... The drama achieves a crisis of extraordinary effectiveness at the guillotine, leaving the audience quivering under its
A Tale of Two Cities to the hero, Bane's catchphrase "the fire rises" as an ode to one of the book's chapters, among others. Bane's associate Barsard is named after a supporting character in the novel. Season 6, episode 10 of the AMC television series "Mad Men" is titled "A Tale of Two Cities". The episode features Don Draper and Roger Sterling flying out to Los Angeles, California for business in the late 1960s. The episode shows the stark differences between liberal Los Angeles and more conservative New York City. In the novel, London is seen to be in a time of relative calm while