Young sailor Edmond Dantès is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes, finds treasure, and reinvents himself as the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo to exact revenge on those who betrayed him.
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Jun 20226/10
I never really understood why Richard Chamberlain became such a big film star. His acting was seriously limited and his characterisations didn't change from one role to the other. This time he takes the part of Alexandre Dumas' hero "Edmond Dantes". Wrongly imprisoned after being betrayed by his jealous shipmate and a corrupt magistrate as a Napoleonic conspirator, he meets the Abbé Faria (Trevor Howard) and together they hope to take a mere four years to tunnel to the sea wall from his cell in the imposing "Chateau D'If". It's pretty clear the old man doesn't have that amount of time. He does, however impart news of the legendary treasure of "Cardinal Slad" and after a bit of nimble body-bag swapping, "Edmond" escapes and seeks vengeance on his persecutors. Cleverly, though, he uses their own foibles to bring them down - the greed of "Danglars" (Donald Pleasence); the ambition of "de Villefort" (Louis Jourdan) and the treachery of acclaimed general "Mondego" (Tony Curtis) who also managed to marry his sweetheart "Mercedes" (an unimpressive Kate Nelligan). My favourite parts of the book are the start - here they are generally skirted over, with little attention to the causes of his
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Cast
- Richard ChamberlainEdmond Dantès
- Trevor HowardAbbé Faria
- Louis JourdanVillefort
- Donald PleasenceDanglars
- Tony CurtisFernand Morcerf Mondego
- Kate NelliganMercédès
- Angelo InfantiJacopo
- Harold BromleyM. Morrell
- George WillingAndre Morrell
- Alessio OranoCaderousse
Crew
- David GreeneDirector
- Sidney CarrollScreenplay
- Alexandre DumasNovel
- Aldo TontiDirector of Photography
- Allyn FergusonOriginal Music Composer
- Gene MilfordEditor
- Norman RosemontProducer
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