The Count of Monte Cristo

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.

Cast

Robert Donat

as Edmond Dantes

Elissa Landi

as Mercedes

Louis Calhern

as De Villefort Jr.

Sidney Blackmer

as Mondego

Raymond Walburn

as Danglars

O. P. Heggie

as Abbe Faria

Irene Hervey

as Valentine

Georgia Caine

as Mme. De Rosas

Walter Walker

as Morrel

Lawrence Grant

as De Villefort Sr.

Reviews

CinemaSerf

Robert Donat is great in this adaptation of Alexandre Dumas's classic novel. He is the wrongly imprisoned "Edmond Dantes", an honest sailor sent to live out his life on a prison island, never to return. He tunnels, and as luck would have it, rather than the sea he discovers another long-term inmate ...

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