![]() It was David Suchet's first feature, nearly a decade before his signature role as Hercule Poirot and it was the first feature of Alice Krige ( Chariots of Fire, Ghost Story), playing an angelic ingénue part far removed from the darker, villainous roles for which she is better known. It was actor Kenneth More's last film, nearly Flora Robson's last, and a late-career triumph for actor Peter Cushing, who after the 1970s didn't work all that much. ![]() ![]() Generally good, it's interesting mainly for its cast of mostly British talent. Not a quote from a 2016 Bernie Sanders speech but rather the famous opening lines of Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities (1980), here adapted as a big-scale Hallmark Hall of Fame television movie. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair." ![]()
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