A Tale of Two Cities (1935)

In director Jack Conway's interpretation of the classic Charles Dickens story of the French Revolution:

• the epic scene of the storming of the Bastille
• the unforgettable image of the evil Mme. Defarge (Blanche Yurka) who cackled and knitted as victims were condemned
• the final scene of Sydney Carton's (Ronald Colman) self-sacrifice to the guillotine in order to save another life, holding hands with another victim, a seamstress (Isabel Jewell) as they ascended the scaffold
• Carton's noble delivery of his last words: ("It's a far, far better thing I do than I have ever done. It's a far, far better rest I go to than I have ever known...")