What is David Copperfield / A Tale of Two Cities about?

DAVID COPPERFIELD, 1935, Warner Bros., 132 min. Dir. George Cukor. The first of producer David O. Selznick's marvelous Dickens films for MGM is like a 19th-century lithograph brought to life, with Freddie Bartholomew as the young David trying to escape the brutal clutches of stepfather Basil Rathbone. Wonderful, irascible performances by Edna May Oliver as David's spinster aunt and W.C. Fields as the ruddy-faced, loquacious Micawber. A TALE OF TWO CITIES, 1935, Warner Bros., 128 min. Dir. Jack Conway. Producer David O. Selznick's stunning adaptation of Charles Dickens’ novel stars Ronald Colman as Sydney Carton, the drunken cynic who finds redemption during the French Revolution's unholy Reign of Terror.

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What is David Copperfield / A Tale of Two Cities about?: DAVID COPPERFIELD, 1935, Warner Bros., 132 min. Dir. George Cukor. The first of producer David O. Selznick's marvelous Dickens films for MGM is like a 19th-century lithograph brought to life, with Freddie Bartholomew as the young David trying to escape the brutal clutches of stepfather Basil Rathbone. Wonderful, irascible performances by Edna May Oliver as David's spinster aunt and W.C. Fields as the ruddy-faced, loquacious Micawber.
A TALE OF TWO CITIES, 1935, Warner Bros., 128 min. Dir. Jack Conway. Producer David O. Selznick's stunning adaptation of Charles Dickens’ novel stars Ronald Colman as Sydney Carton, the drunken cynic who finds redemption during the French Revolution's unholy Reign of Terror.