Charles Dickens Articles

A TALE OF TWO CITIES (1935) Direction: Jack Conway Cast: Ronald Colman, Elizabeth Allan, Edna May Oliver, Reginald Owen, Basil Rathbone, Blanche Yurka, Donald Woods, Lucille La Verne, Henry B. Walthall, H. B. Warner, Walter Catlett, Fritz Leiber, Isabel Jewell, Tully Marshall, Mitchell Lewis, Robert Warwick Screenplay: W. P. Lipscomb and S. N. Behrman; from Charles Dickens' novel Oscar Movies Highly Recommended Jack Conway's A [...]

Rich Man's Folly (1931) Direction: John Cromwell Screenplay: Grover Jones and Edward E. Paramore Jr.; from Charles Dickens' novel Dombey and Son Cast: George Bancroft, Frances Dee, Robert Ames, David Durand, Juliette Compton, Dorothy Peterson   Directed by the respected John Cromwell and based on Charles Dickens' Dombey and Son, Rich Man's Folly features George Bancroft as a ruthless, egotistical shipping tycoon whose only concern [...]