A Tale of Two Cities (1935 film) French Revolution and deals with two men who are alike, not only in appearance, but in their love for the same woman. The film is generally regarded as the best cinematic version of Dickens' novel. On the eve of the French Revolution, Lucie Manette (Elizabeth Allan) is informed that her father (Henry B. Walthall) is not dead, but has been a prisoner in the Bastille for many long years before finally being released. She travels to Paris to take her father to her home in England. Dr. Manette has been taken care of by a friend, Ernest Defarge (Mitchell Lewis),
Against a Dark Background in the tank, self-identifying with the Lazy Gun and the destruction that it brings to everything it encounters. "Against a Dark Background" was rewritten from an original work of 1975. Banks said that it was the last of his old material that he had to rewrite. Banks wrote an epilogue to the book that did not appear with the published text, but is available separately online. "Against a Dark Background", Iain M. Banks, London: Orbit, 1993, (UK) (US) Against a Dark Background Against a Dark Background is a science fiction novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks, first published in