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A Tale of Two Cities

Short Films • 21-Feb-1911

Lucie Manette discovers that her father is not dead, as she had always believed. He has just been released from the Bastille, where for decades he was being held for offending the Marquis St. Evrémonde. A short time later, Lucie meets and falls in love with Charles Darnay. The two marry, with Lucie never knowing that Charles Darnay is, in fact, Charles Evrémonde — nephew of the marquis who sent her father to prison.

Tags
aristocracy, based on a novel, beheading, drama, England, France, mistaken identity, murder, period film, poverty
Cast
Maurice Costello Sydney Carton
Florence Turner Lucie Manette
Charles Kent Dr. Manette
Leo Delaney Charles Darnay
William Shea Jarvis Lorry
William Humphrey The Marquis
Tefft Johnson Defarge
Edith Halloren Madame Defarge
John Bunny Jailer
Kenneth Casey Son of the Marquis
Florence Foley Woodcutter's Child
Julia Swayne Gordon Miss Pross
Norma Talmadge Condemned Woman
Ralph Ince Peasant
James Morrison Peasant
Mabel Normand Peasant
Edith Storey Peasant
Lillian Walker Peasant
Crew
William Humphrey director
Charles Dickens writer
Eugene Mullin writer

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