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Judy Parfitt (Actor, Host), John Abineri (Actor, Host), Michael E. Briant (Director, Host) Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over Format: DVD
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  • Actors: Judy Parfitt, John Abineri, Paul Shelley, Sally Osborne, Vivien Merchant
  • Directors: Michael E. Briant
  • Producers: A Tale of Two Cities - 2-DVD Set ( A Tale of 2 Cities ), A Tale of Two Cities - 2-DVD Set, A Tale of 2 Cities
  • Format: Import, PAL
  • Subtitles: Dutch
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 2
  • Classification: 15
  • Run Time: 200 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0065UXDU8
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Netherlands released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Surround ), Dutch ( Subtitles ), SPECIAL FEATURES: 2-DVD Set, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: A Tale of Two Cities (Dir. Michael E. Briant, 1980: Two cities intertwined during the French revolution by tyranny and love in this absorbing and heart-rending production. It tells the story of Syney Carton, a man of no consequence, who gives up his life to save Charles Darnay. Across the years BBC Television has consistently looked to the works of Charles Dickens for intelligent, colourful, accessible and popular drama. Dickens' novels are ideal for television - his writing has a great theatrical and visual quality; his stories (written as episodes with their own cliff-hangers) are full of humour, drama and emotion and his characters are three-dimensional and exude personality. ...A Tale of Two Cities - 2-DVD Set ( A Tale of 2 Cities )

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3.0 out of 5 starsWell acted, but poor story-telling
By Ruth O'D on 19 May 2012
Format: DVD
This was a fairly good series in many ways, let down by the screenplay and editing. I have never read the book and found it very hard to follow the story properly in the first few episodes. The action seemed forever to be jumping from one group of people to another, from England to France, from upper-class drawing room to angry peasants. Important characters weren't introduced properly and at the start of each half-hour episode I felt sure that I had accidently skipped past some vital plot point. It was not until I was about half-way through that I really felt I had worked out who was who and what was going on and by then it was too late for me to really care about the fate of any of the characters. For example, Sydney Carton often alludes to his bad behaviour and misfortunes but, unless I missed it, we are never really told enough of his back-story to know what he means:- he just seemed to drift into the story unannounced. There was also an English spy and a long-lost brother that didn't seem to connect up much with the main plot.

This poor story-telling is unfortunate because in other aspects it is an excellent series. Considering that it is over 30 years old it naturally looks a little dated; the outdoor scenes in particular are not of the quality you would expect from a modern production; but there does seem to be good attention to detail and it doesn't look amateur or stagy. All the actors are very good, natural and believable, and the dramatic scenes are well done. I was particularly impressed by Ralph Michael as Dr Manette and Nigel Stock as Mr Lorry and you may recognise a young(ish) Judy Parfitt as an embittered Madame Defarge.

I suspect I would enjoy this series more on a second viewing, when I know what to look out for from the beginning, but the disjointed nature of the action in the first few episodes meant I almost abandonned it after the first half hour.
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4.0 out of 5 starsYour Typical Solid BBC Production
By F. Oakes on 4 Sept. 2010
Format: DVD
This production of "A Tale of Two Cities" is your typical BBC production. Made in 1980, its age does show a bit with somewhat primitive SFX, and is slightly theatrical. Paul Shelley does a solid turn as both Charles Darnay/Sidney Carton.
There are some odd inclusions/omissions. That fact that Jerry Cruncher is a resurrectionist [grave robber] is left out. This proves important in the book, as Cruncher had dug up Barsad's body to sell to a medical school, and found the coffin full of stones. But the sub-plot about John Barsad being Miss Pross's not-so-nice long lost brother is left in. This can be left out, without destroying the storyline.
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5.0 out of 5 starsMaybe not the best, but good
By Dr Jacques COULARDEAU on 27 Mar. 2011
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Melodramatic to the utmost, this story is also rather superficial as for the French Revolution. Dickens does not like it but he has divided feelings about it. He is particularly obnoxious with the aristocrats before the revolution and does not seem to have any pity for them after the revolution and he shows them all powdered and wigged when going to the guillotine or in prison, as if on a sort of macabre parade.

He seems to ignore the Bastille was destroyed on the spot as soon as it was taken, though it might not be his mistake, like the mistake of the colors in 1789. White was the color of the king and the other colors where blue and red and they were those of Paris. The tricolor flag was still to be invented.

At the same time he is particularly hard with the hard liners on the revolutionary side, though they have some good reasons to be hard liners but does it help the revolution, is it going to bring comfort and food to the poor? The question is asked and cannot be answered anyway. The economy collapsed and the war effort sucked all energies and means. The revolution did not bring that comfortable welfare it was more or less dreaming of at the beginning and France will have to wait for the stabilization of the economy under Napoleon and the Empire to really see some better times, and yet the war effort was constantly maintained and nourished by Napoleon.

The great quality of the story is to bring together a physician who lived and worked in France for more than twenty years before the revolution and he could witness the extreme poverty of the people and condescension of the aristocracy.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsA Tale of Two Cities
By yvonne page on 3 May 2014
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Great - I enjoyed it when it was on TV years ago. It captures the atmosphere of the French Revolution brilliantly - and Paul Shelley carried off both parts excellently. Needed tissues for the ending!
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5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars
By john on 16 Feb. 2015
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dated but still entertaining
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