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A Tale of Two Cities (1922 film)

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A Tale of Two Cities
Directed byWalter Courtney Rowden
Written byWalter Courtney Rowden
Based onA Tale of Two Cities
1859 novel
by Charles Dickens
Produced byH.B. Parkinson
StarringClive Brook
Ann Trevor
J. Fisher White
Production
company
Distributed byBritish Exhibitors' Films
Release date
  • 1922 (1922)
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

A Tale of Two Cities is a 1922 British silent drama film directed by Walter Courtney Rowden and starring Clive Brook, Ann Trevor and J. Fisher White. The film is an adaptation of the 1859 novel A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, and its plot concerns events taking place during the French Revolution. It was made as part of the "Tense Moments with Great Authors Series" of films.

Premise

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During the French Revolution, a jaundiced British lawyer takes the place of a French aristocrat who has been sentenced to the guillotine.

Cast

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Bibliography

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  • Scott, Ian. From Pinewood to Hollywood: British Filmmakers in American Cinema, 1910-1969. Palgrave MacMillan, 2010.
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