Overview

A dramatization originally for TV on the Plymouth Playhouse. Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French doctor Alexandre Manette serves an 18-year imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, followed by his release to live in London with the daughter he has never met.

Top Cast

Wendell Corey

Sydney Carton

Wanda Hendrix

Lucie Manette

Murray Matheson

Dr. Alexander Manette

Carleton Young

Charles Darnay

Esther Dale

Pross

Paul Cavanagh

Mr. Stryver

Norman Budd

Jerry Cruncher

Ted Stanhope

The Judge

Colin Kenny

The Baliff

Whit Bissell

Host

Judith Evelyn

Therese Defarge

Robert Foulk

Ernest Defarge