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 (1911 film) the production of which the laws that govern the fine arts had been applied, that a universal understanding and appreciation of art finally would be reached." Due to the film's enormous success, Vitagraph reissued "A Tale of Two Cities" in 1913. A Tale of Two Cities (1911 film) A Tale of Two Cities is a 1911 silent film produced by Vitagraph Studios, loosely based on the 1859 novel by Charles Dickens. The film's three reels were respectively released on February 21, 24, and 25, 1911. Many film exhibitors at this time were hesitant to screen pictures of more than one