Monte Cristo

A film adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbe tells Edmond of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of...

Cast

John Gilbert

as Edmond Dantes, Count of Monte Cristo

Estelle Taylor

as Mercedes, Countess de Morcerf

Robert McKim

as De Villefort, the king's attorney

William V. Mong

as Caderousse, the innkeeper

Virginia Brown Faire

as Haidee, an Arabian Princess

George Siegmann

as Luigi Vampa, ex-pirate

Spottiswoode Aitken

as Abbé Faria

Ralph Cloninger

as Fernand, Count de Morcert

Harry Lonsdale

as Dantes, Father of Edmond

Albert Prisco

as Baron Danglars

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