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Synopsis: During the French Revolution, French national Lucie Manette meets and falls in love with Englishman Charles Darnay. He is however hiding his true identity as a member of the French aristocratic Evrémonde family, who he has denounced in private. The Marquis St. Evrémonde in particular was a cruel man, those he wronged who have vowed to see the end of the family line at any cost. Lucie's father Dr. Alexandre Manette, in fact, was imprisoned in the Bastille for eighteen years because of actions of the Marquis. Into their lives comes English barrister Sydney Carton, who enjoys his alcohol to excess. Carton earlier defended Darnay in a trial on trumped up charges of treason. Carton doesn't really like Darnay in part because Carton also loves Lucie, he realizing that that love is unrequited. But Carton does eventually learn of Darnay's true heritage at a critical time. Carton takes extraordinary measures to ensure Lucie's happiness during this time, which has the potential to be explosive if
Director(s): Ralph Thomas
Production: Franco London Films
 
IMDB:
7.1
Year:
1958
117 min
317 Views


able to bear the hearing of it.

I can bear anything, sir,

rather than the insecurity in

which you leave me at the moment.

You speak collectedly.

That's good.

This story is incomplete.

It relies largely on some information we

have received from a man named Defarge,

who was formerly your father's servant.

According to this man Defarge, it appears

that one night, some eighteen years ago,

your father, Dr Manette, was returning

home late after attending a case in Paris,

when he received an urgent summons to

the country home of a certain nobleman.

The patient was a young peasant girl

The doctor found her suffering

from a high fever of the brain

To keep her quiet

she had been gagged and

tied with sashes and scarves

No-one considered that

she might suffocate

In fact it would not have shortened

her life by much if she had

For although Dr Manette was

able to ease her last hours

she died that same day

from the violence she had

suffered in body and mind

Nor was she the only victim

of that young nobleman

In the stables was a boy

of seventeen her brother

He was dying from a sword wound

It was while Dr Manette

was attending him

that he heard the full story from the

servant a man by the name of Gabelle

They were a family of

four, my master's tenants.

Which means that nothing they possessed

was their own, not even their bodies.

The law allows the father no right

to resist a claim on his daughter,

but their father resisted.

You're perhaps aware that

these nobles have the right

to harness their tenant to a cart

and drive him like a horse or dog!

That's what happened to their father.

This boy was set on revenge but

my master's a skilful swordsman

- Doctor!

- Yes. Yes, my poor fellow, I'm a doctor.

Lie quiet, now. Let me see to this.

- My sister?

- I've seen your sister.

She is... at peace now.

My other sister.

All alone.

There's a second sister.

Only fifteen, God help her.

Who told you to bring the doctor here?

Erm, Monseigneur, the

boy is suffering so much,

- I thought perhaps...

- Get out!

Doctor, you were not summoned here to

listen to the babblings of this hind.

You...

You promise?

This boy is dead.

You may forget these serfs.

I wish to impress upon you, Doctor,

that the things you have seen

and heard are not to be spoken of.

You would do well to mark that

Dr Manette had a conscience which

would not allow him to heed that warning

He decided it was his duty to write a

report of these events to the Minister

This action he confided

only to his servant Defarge

I'm telling you this, Defarge, because

I know what influence these nobles have.

Should I be prevented from

keeping my promise to that boy...

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