A pair of lookalikes, one a former French aristocrat and the other an alcoholic English lawyer, fall in love with the same woman amongst the turmoil of the French Revolution.
Jean-Pierre Aumont
Alexandre Manette
Serena Gordon
Lucie Manette (later Darnay)
Xavier Deluc
Charles Darnay
James Wilby
Sydney Carton
John Mills
Jarvis Lorry
Gérard Klein
Ernest Defarge
Kathy Kriegel
Thérèse Defarge
Anna Massey
Miss Pross
Alfred Lynch
Jerry Cruncher
Jonathan Adams
C. J. Stryver
Karl Johnson
Solomon Pross/'John Barsad'
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