The tenderness shown in this scene by Sydney Carton towards the frightened little innocent seamstress is so very moving. It is true, anything in life can be faced with someone who supports you with loving kindness.
@@jackiereynolds2888 Hello Jackie, Sorry I didn't respond sooner. Thank you for your reply. Although I've always loved films, I don't think I know the actress you name. Perhaps it's just the name I'm not familiar with. Best Regards, Allan.
Isabel Beckerman I remember reading this book in school. This movie depicts the book so well. Sir Ronald Colman (not aware he was knighted until you mentioned it) was a great actor, good looking, and had that beautiful voice. I could probably listen to him talk all day.
Did you notice that his number was 23 ? As in Psalms 23 The LORD is my shepherd..... Yea , though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death , I will fear no evil : for thou art with me ; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me........
***** Wow ! Thanks , I was the teachers aid / teacher for K - 5 for 7 years at a Christian school. And I do love numbers they reveal alot about each of us and our situations. Peace and Love : )
No doubt the best adaptation. Watched it yesterday, What an acting, Coleman Deserved an Oscar for this.. each and every cast, the background Music are better than perfect....
My grandmother had a crush on Ronald Coleman; I used to watch this movie with her, and her admiration for him was still evident in her 80s. After she passed we went through her albums and found a signed photo of him in one of them, I never knew how she got it. She probably wrote a fan letter to him and just got a premade response, but I still wish I'd been able to ask her about it.
I first heard Colman's voice when I was about 13 and A Tale of Two Cities was on TV. I wasn't paying much attention when I heard his voice. It was unlike any other voice I had heard up to that time. Not only is his voice the most beautiful I have ever heard, but he is uncanny because he pronounces every syllable of every word, yet makes it flow.
It's a myth that the majority of those guillotined were the nobility, most of the nobility had already fled the country in 1789 & 1791. The majority of the victims were innocent, simple people, like the seamstress here, & belonging to trades that had seen the majority of there clientele flee. Also those unlucky enough to fall under suspicion. Awful event!
I have enjoyed several different movie and tv versions of this story, but this is by far my favorite, despite the limited technology. Coleman is just too good to pass by in this performance.
The women at the beginning of this clip is Lucile La Verne, who is most remembered for her dual role of the Queen and the Hag in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs!
What a shame it is that the youth of America today will never know the reward and pleasure of the great novels and books we of another generation grew up with..
The most beautiful scene. Never saw the movie. Never read the book i know the gist and I saw rhis in psychology class.. 10 years later it's still haunting
The book is a must read and was always my very favorite Dickens' work. The Ronald Colman version remains the definitive version (what a sonorous voice he had) and the movie's only flaw is that Donald Woods is miscast as Charles Darnay.
Adestes Fideles -come all ye faithful. The carol ties into the beginning of the movie, the scene where Carton goes to Midnight Mass with Lucie. I believe it suggests the religious theme: Carton has repented his whiskey guzzling, determined to sacrifice his life for another. He recalls his boyhood religion, especially "the resurrection and the life." He looks forward to a better rest in a better place.
Although I like another version more, I like the way this Tale of Two Cities movie ends, with Sidney Carton's last words being said as we look upward to the sky.
In the novel, that quote is on a wall when Sydney carton decides to give his life. We wanders the streets repeating it in his mind as he gathers himself to make this sacrifice. They couldn't show him thinking to himself obviously, so they tagged it on at the end
***** There is simply nothing about this that is "suicide" or a "sin". You do not seem to understand the Christian notion of either. If you give your life for another, this is not a sin. Christ did the same. Sydney does this here. Suicide always pertains to alleviate your own suffering and ONLY your own suffering, not that of others. Anyhow, hope you'll figure out the difference.
+KidMillions Thanks for saying so. I view this story as very "Christian" in nature. Remember the "Reign of Terror" was largely Secularists purging Christianity as well as the Aristocrats. I just didn't want the important message here to be simplified as mere "suicide". Take care.
Wonderful ending, but what the heck's with the Christmas carol at the end?! This doesn't take place during Christmas! It's the same as with the adaptation of David Copperfield that was (I think) made in the same year--despite the fact that no part of the story takes place at Christmas, they had a choir singing a carol over the opening credits. Maybe it's just because they figured audiences associated Dickens with Christmas?
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The tenderness shown in this scene by Sydney Carton towards the frightened little innocent seamstress is so very moving. It is true, anything in life can be faced with someone who supports you with loving kindness.
Allan - you share your sur-
name with a very favorite actress of mine.
'Connie Gilchrist'.
@@jackiereynolds2888 Hello Jackie, Sorry I didn't respond sooner. Thank you for your reply. Although I've always loved films, I don't think I know the actress you name. Perhaps it's just the name I'm not familiar with. Best Regards, Allan.
Just watched the ending of this true classic. I was fighting back tears.
A crime that Ronald Colman wasn’t even nominated for an Oscar that year. He was brilliant-the embodiment of Dicken’s character.
One of his best
Love this version of A Tale of Two Cities. Especially love Ronald Coleman and his beautiful voice.
Isabel Beckerman
I remember reading this book in school. This movie depicts the book so well. Sir Ronald Colman (not aware he was knighted until you mentioned it) was a great actor, good looking, and had that beautiful voice. I could probably listen to him talk all day.
L Broderick why does it seem, at least to me, that these old movies seem so well done. I love the black and white classics.
A satin voice.
@@michaelsterref Most definitely.
Ronald Colman made the role of Sidney Carton his own. Rich delivery with every scene whether humorous or melancholy; riveting as only Colman could do.
My favorite actor. What a voice. I think though it was more than that. There was always about him, a feeling of kindness - especially this role.
Really Amazing..
Love this movie! It's my favourite version. Ronald Colman who plays Sydney Carton (A Tale of Two Cities) is absolutely brilliant.
ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE SCENES EVER FILMED , A GREAT MOMENT IN THE HISTORY OF ART !
I always get a wrench in the heart watching or reading the scene between Carton and the Seamstress.
Setebos k
Me too.
Setebos! Me too. I agree so heart wrenching.
Yes..me too
Did you notice that his number was 23 ? As in Psalms 23 The LORD is my shepherd..... Yea , though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death , I will fear no evil : for thou art with me ; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me........
Lol you sound like my english teacher
***** Wow ! Thanks , I was the teachers aid / teacher for K - 5 for 7 years at a Christian school. And I do love numbers they reveal alot about each of us and our situations. Peace and Love : )
Dave Bronstein No I don't gamble : )
Pamela Corona off with their heads CHEERS lol like
They will probably be used in FEMA camps on those who refuse to get chipped...refusing the mark of the antichrist in the hand or forehead.
No doubt the best adaptation. Watched it yesterday, What an acting, Coleman Deserved an Oscar for this.. each and every cast, the background Music are better than perfect....
My grandmother had a crush on Ronald Coleman; I used to watch this movie with her, and her admiration for him was still evident in her 80s. After she passed we went through her albums and found a signed photo of him in one of them, I never knew how she got it. She probably wrote a fan letter to him and just got a premade response, but I still wish I'd been able to ask her about it.
My favorite film version of this story. I've seen others that were good, but this is standard by which all others are measured.
Modern screen acting begins here with Colman’s performance; it is that good. Very naturalistic and understated. Brilliant film! Essential viewing!
They just don’t make films like this anymore ❤️ so beautiful
I first heard Colman's voice when I was about 13 and A Tale of Two Cities was on TV. I wasn't paying much attention when I heard his voice. It was unlike any other voice I had heard up to that time. Not only is his voice the most beautiful I have ever heard, but he is uncanny because he pronounces every syllable of every word, yet makes it flow.
It's a myth that the majority of those guillotined were the nobility, most of the nobility had already fled the country in 1789 & 1791. The majority of the victims were innocent, simple people, like the seamstress here, & belonging to trades that had seen the majority of there clientele flee. Also those unlucky enough to fall under suspicion. Awful event!
I read the novel, gut wrenching
What a great ending! There is hope. Jesus lives and so shall I.
AMEN BROTHER! AS JESUS CHRIST SAID, THAT HE AND ONLY HE, IS THE WAY, THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE PEROID.
Oh that sweet kiss 😢
I love how it ends with that verse and Adeste Fideles playing in the background.
When I watched this in my humanities class I immediately had a crush on Sydney like he's so handsome
flipdeedoo good man having his head chopped off instead of.the.right person
flipdeedoo i wish my class would of read this book I had to find it on my own
I watched this movie in the English class when I was in Senior 2. In the end I couldn’t help crying.
who is watching this 2020..🤘🎊
My favorite version; he steals the ending with his performance.
I have enjoyed several different movie and tv versions of this story, but this is by far my favorite, despite the limited technology. Coleman is just too good to pass by in this performance.
Ronald Colman as Sydney Carton. Just an absolute tour de force as the lovable rouge who makes the ultimate sacrifice. It’s a timeless performance.
I was always very glad they ended the movie before the blade dropped. We really didn't need to see that...
Sueb18631 why not
why
I couldn’t watch the ed until I saw your comment.
@@hemantkandari33 Because it would have broken the emotional peace of the ending.
Would be good to see blade as been mannequin anyway
The women at the beginning of this clip is Lucile La Verne, who is most remembered for her dual role of the Queen and the Hag in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs!
The best of the several versions.
Note the ominous sounding voice that calls for "twenty-three".....fantastic film.
I can't get through this in one sitting. It is just too upsetting.
It always surprised me that this movie didn't include a scene where Lucie finds out that Sydney saved Charles in the end.
What a shame it is that the youth of America today will never know the reward and pleasure of the great novels and books we of another generation grew up with..
Isabel Jewell as the seamstress, she also appeared with Ronald Colman in Lost Horizon(1937).
watched this in class and i cried at this part
It's very sad but they did a great job with it! What did your class think of the movie?
The most beautiful scene. Never saw the movie. Never read the book i know the gist and I saw rhis in psychology class.. 10 years later it's still haunting
50 years later for me, and it's still haunting.
The book is a must read and was always my very favorite Dickens' work. The Ronald Colman version remains the definitive version (what a sonorous voice he had) and the movie's only flaw is that Donald Woods is miscast as Charles Darnay.
Saddest ending ever...and Ronald Coleman's voice and last words...haunting
His death has worth and heroric, a sadder death would be if it was empty
I almost cried during those ten seconds of carton and the seamstress.
I did. Anyone would.
Adestes Fideles -come all ye faithful. The carol ties into the beginning of the movie, the scene where Carton goes to Midnight Mass with Lucie. I believe it suggests the religious theme: Carton has repented his whiskey guzzling, determined to sacrifice his life for another. He recalls his boyhood religion, especially "the resurrection and the life." He looks forward to a better rest in a better place.
My late husband’s voice. Thanks.
RIP Sydney Carton
I agree I've read the novel five times.
Honestly the Dark Knight Rises is the only movie that gave a decent cover of this speech.
The actress is Isabel Jewell. I think she grew up on a ranch in Wyoming.
How strange I was thinking during the video I wonder who she was & low and behold someone was about answer it.
She was Emmy Slattery in Gone With the Wind!!!!
@@happytoknowjesus That's right! Can you imagine a more different role?!
@@happytoknowjesusno way! Thanks for sharing!
A Great Movie!
Although I like another version more, I like the way this Tale of Two Cities movie ends, with Sidney Carton's last words being said as we look upward to the sky.
Press F to pay respect.
Know what? I love Carton more than Darnay
very,very good movie!!
Blance Yurka ( Madame De Farge) was not here she was detained by Miss Pruss
Montage by Jacques Tournier ? Colemans voice ah that was it
Thank you 🙏🏽 this is what connected me! #HubbardHSAP #. Dr Sheldon
The only time you hear a real french accent is when that guy comes in for the roll call of those about to go to the Guillotine
wish you could post the scene when they first meet in prison.
Oh, my God!
Message Spock?
Man fuck that guillotine! Makes me so saaa "whaaaaaasa" :,(
great ending to the movie, but how I hate the number 23 for a number of reasons
He doesn't even go here!
What is TSWNN??? Isn't this ATOTC?
can anyone tell me the year of this film please
1958
Ignore the other date. That was with Dirk Bogarde. This version was made in 1935.
@@leilaqian6704 : Certainly not! 1935.
@@charliewest1221Yes, the 1930's: the peak of the Golden Age of Hollywood.
What movie is this ... ? A Tale of Two Cities ... ? TSWNN?
A Tale of Two Cities
I thought so but what does TSWNN stand for ... ?
Hm, sorry, I have no idea! Guess we'll have to ask the person who posted the video.
DarthBias1 I was wondering that myself.
I lost a friend who died this past year of brain cancer. I went to the Dallas FBI to report my memory to defend Brett Kavanaugh.
has this movie got something to do with bankers
One of the characters works for a bank.
barstools&busstops
I wonder if the bible quote was added not to upset believers, as it's technically suicide which is a sin.
In the novel, that quote is on a wall when Sydney carton decides to give his life. We wanders the streets repeating it in his mind as he gathers himself to make this sacrifice. They couldn't show him thinking to himself obviously, so they tagged it on at the end
*****
There is simply nothing about this that is "suicide" or a "sin". You do not seem to understand the Christian notion of either. If you give your life for another, this is not a sin. Christ did the same. Sydney does this here.
Suicide always pertains to alleviate your own suffering and ONLY your own suffering, not that of others.
Anyhow, hope you'll figure out the difference.
+Matt M You're correct, I forgot the full context. It's a sacrifice of course.
+KidMillions
Thanks for saying so. I view this story as very "Christian" in nature. Remember the "Reign of Terror" was largely Secularists purging Christianity as well as the Aristocrats. I just didn't want the important message here to be simplified as mere "suicide".
Take care.
So sad that the young girl had to go to guillotine, she did nothing wrong. May the ones who send her go to hell. Buddha look on her with peace.
Carton was English, the illiterate seamstress French. How did they communicate?
en francais
In the book, Carton is fluent in French, and we can assume he's fluent in French in the movie, too.
@@Sueb18631 : Yes, he schooled in France. He was a brilliant scholar.
Wonderful ending, but what the heck's with the Christmas carol at the end?! This doesn't take place during Christmas!
It's the same as with the adaptation of David Copperfield that was (I think) made in the same year--despite the fact that no part of the story takes place at Christmas, they had a choir singing a carol over the opening credits. Maybe it's just because they figured audiences associated Dickens with Christmas?
'Adeste Fideles' is sung at Midnight Mass earlier in the film when Sidney realises he is in love with Lucy and that he is unworthy of her love.
sydeny carton is very brave but I didn't like this end