At the Dickens film festival

A friend and I were at the AFI Silver Theater this morning to catch a screening of A Tale of Two Cities (1958) — the first and, alas, the last film I'll have the chance to see in their Dickens film festival. The print could have been in better shape (I was a bit disappointed in the print quality of the Gene Kelly films I've seen there, as well.) But let me just say this . . . the only thing better than Dirk Bogarde as Sydney Carton, is larger-than-life Dirk Bogarde as Sydney Carton.

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