A Tale of Two Cities (1980 film) A Tale of Two Cities (1980 film) A Tale of Two Cities is a 1980 American made-for-television historical drama film directed by Jim Goddard and starring Chris Sarandon, who plays dual roles as two characters who are in love with the same woman. It is based on the Charles Dickens novel of the same name set in the French Revolution. Dickens' London-lawyer hero (Chris Sarandon) makes the ultimate sacrifice for the woman he loves in Paris during the Reign of Terror. Producer Norman Rosemont specialised in adaptations of classic novels. Most of the $5 million budget came from Hallmark Greeting
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