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A Tale of Two Cities is a 1980 American historical drama film made for TV, [2] directed by Jim Goddard and starring Chris Sarandon, who plays dual roles as two characters who are in love with the same woman. [3] It is based on the 1859 Charles Dickens novel of the same name set in the French Revolution.
Madame Thérèse Defarge is a fictional character and the main antagonist of the 1859 novel A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. She is a ringleader of the tricoteuses, a tireless worker for the French Revolution, memorably knitting beside the guillotine during executions. She is the wife of Ernest Defarge.
Barsad is described in Book 2, Chapter 3 of A Tale of Two Cities as "one of the greatest scoundrels upon the earth since accursed Judas-which he certainly did look rather like." This is a direct reference to Judas Iscariot , the man who betrayed Jesus Christ in the Bible, and is explaining that Barsad is a very untrustworthy man.
A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel published in 1859 by English author Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution.The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie whom he had never met.
Ruth F. Glancy, Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities: A Sourcebook (Routledge, 2006), 57-8. Beth Harris, Famine and Fashion: Needlewomen in the Nineteenth Century (Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2005), . Michael Pointer and Anthony Slide, Charles Dickens on the Screen: The Film, Television, and Video Adaptations (Scarecrow Press, 1996), .
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A Tale of Two Cities is a British television series which first aired on BBC 1 in 1980. It is an adaptation of the novel A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. [2] Paul Shelley plays the duel roles of Sydney Carton and Charles Darnay, the first actor to do so since William Farnum in the 1917 silent adaptation. [3]
In the 1980 TV Movie A Tale of Two Cities, Jerry Cruncher is portrayed by George Innes. In the 2008 Broadway musical adaptation of ' A Tale of Two Cities ,' Jerry Cruncher was played by Craig Bennett .