A Tale of Two Cities (1958 film) A Tale of Two Cities (1958 film) A Tale of Two Cities is a 1958 British film directed by Ralph Thomas and starring Dirk Bogarde and Dorothy Tutin. It is a period drama based on parts of Charles Dickens' novel "A Tale of Two Cities" (1859). Sydney Carton, a drunken English lawyer, discovers that Charles Darnay, a man he once defended, is a French aristocrat trying to escape the French Revolution. While he envies the man over the love of a woman, Lucie Manette, his conscience is pricked and he resolves to help him escape the guillotine. Ralph Thomas insisted
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