The Only Way is a 1926 British drama film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring John Martin Harvey, Madge Stuart and Betty Faire.

In 1770s France Doctor Manette is witness to the rape of a young woman, Jeanne Defarge, and the murder of her and brother Jacques by the powerful Marquis d'Evremonde.

Manette's young daughter is spirited out of the country by her guardian, the British banker Jarvis Lorry, to England, where she is brought up by Miss Pross.

On the journey back they encounter a young man named Charles Darnay, the son of Marquis d'Evremonde, fleeing France because his liberal views clash with those of his father.

Darnay's defence case is worked on by an dissolute Englishman, Sidney Carton, whose young idealism has given way to a self-loathing cynicism.

Desperate to get their hands on the new aristocrat, Defarge and his colleagues trick Darnay into returning to France to assist an old faithful family servant who is now in trouble.

Realising that Darnay is now facing almost certain death, Carton hatches an outlandish plan to switch places with him based on their facial similarities.

But, remembering the hard lesson of the praise lavished on The Wonderful Story [a critical success which had flopped] I took no risks and put all my knowledge of showmanship into presenting it.