Classy an adequate black and white retelling Count of Montecristo by Rowland V. Lee with Robert Donat , Louisa Landi , Louis Calhern . Fine recounting packing adventures , action , romance , derring-do , sword-play and it turns out to be entertaining enough as well as enjoyable . Set in the turbulent years after fall Napoleon , who was banished and isolated at Island of Elba . Stars Edmund Dantes (Robert Donat) , he is falsely incarcerated by a fake set-up schemed by his enemies , caused by his good fortune and extreme envy due to his beautiful girlfriend (Elisa Landi) . After greedy men (Louis Calhern, Sidney Blackmer, Raymond Walburn) have unjustly imprisoned Edmound Dantes for 20 years for innocently delivering a letter entrusted to him , he gets away to get his revenge on them . Being wrongly imprisoned in Island of If , there he meets an old prisoner , Abbe Faria (O. P. Heggie) . Abbe becomes his teacher and mentor , later on , he tells Edmund a fantastic treasure hidden away at a far Island , that only he knows the location of . After long years in prison , Edmund escapes and he seeks a merciless vendetta against his old contenders. After that , Edmund proceeds to become himself into the wealthy Count of Montecristo , taking a new identity by surprising his enemy traitors . The relentless vendetta is ready against the nasty traitors who accused him . Treachery, Revenge , Romance...the one tale that tells them all ¡.
This faithful filmization is a good and agreeable remake of the Alexandre Dumas tale by the same name , containing adventures , feats , action , fencing , romance, evocative musical score by maestro composer Alfred Newman and anything else . A true swashbuckling vengeance story recounting about the famous novel written by Alexandre Dumas . Including thrills , emotion , a betrayed love story and an implacable vengeance . Stars Robert Donat giving a fine acting as unfortunate Edmund Dantes who transforms into a powerful count , he goes into action to reclaim his ex-fiancee Mercedes : Elisa Landi and while seeking vendetta . Concerning the known plot in which Edmund Dantes is unjustly sent to jail for 18 years at the Chateau-Island of If , being framed as sender of Napoleon's letters , subsequently retrieving a pirate trasure , he gains ever so sweet and served quite cold vendetta . That's why he plots revenge in the prison located in If island against those who betrayed him , these are well played by a good plethora of secondaries giving appropriate interpretations , such as : Louis Calhern, Sidney Blackmer , Raymond Walburn . This good version of the historical costumer with atmospheric cinematography in black and white, was professionally directed by the Hollywood professional director Rowland V. Lee .
This is the classic 1934 rendition , other adaptations are the following ones : 1912 silent movie by Edwin S. Porter . Argentina version El Conde de Montecristo 1953 by León Klimovski with Jorge Mistral. Le comte Montecristo 1961 by Claude Aunt Lara with Louis Jourdan as Montecristo. TV retelling by David Greene with Richard Chamberlain , Kate Nelligan , Tony Curtis , Donald Pleasence , Louis Jourdan . TV series retelling Le conté de Montecristo 1979 with Jacques Wever . TV nice version by José Dayan in 1998 with Gérard Depardieu , Ornella Muti , Jean Rochefort , Pierre Arditi , Michael Aumont . And 2002 by Kevin Reynolds with James Cazievel , Daymara Domincyk , Guy Pearce , James Frain and Richard Harris as Abbe Faria.
This faithful filmization is a good and agreeable remake of the Alexandre Dumas tale by the same name , containing adventures , feats , action , fencing , romance, evocative musical score by maestro composer Alfred Newman and anything else . A true swashbuckling vengeance story recounting about the famous novel written by Alexandre Dumas . Including thrills , emotion , a betrayed love story and an implacable vengeance . Stars Robert Donat giving a fine acting as unfortunate Edmund Dantes who transforms into a powerful count , he goes into action to reclaim his ex-fiancee Mercedes : Elisa Landi and while seeking vendetta . Concerning the known plot in which Edmund Dantes is unjustly sent to jail for 18 years at the Chateau-Island of If , being framed as sender of Napoleon's letters , subsequently retrieving a pirate trasure , he gains ever so sweet and served quite cold vendetta . That's why he plots revenge in the prison located in If island against those who betrayed him , these are well played by a good plethora of secondaries giving appropriate interpretations , such as : Louis Calhern, Sidney Blackmer , Raymond Walburn . This good version of the historical costumer with atmospheric cinematography in black and white, was professionally directed by the Hollywood professional director Rowland V. Lee .
This is the classic 1934 rendition , other adaptations are the following ones : 1912 silent movie by Edwin S. Porter . Argentina version El Conde de Montecristo 1953 by León Klimovski with Jorge Mistral. Le comte Montecristo 1961 by Claude Aunt Lara with Louis Jourdan as Montecristo. TV retelling by David Greene with Richard Chamberlain , Kate Nelligan , Tony Curtis , Donald Pleasence , Louis Jourdan . TV series retelling Le conté de Montecristo 1979 with Jacques Wever . TV nice version by José Dayan in 1998 with Gérard Depardieu , Ornella Muti , Jean Rochefort , Pierre Arditi , Michael Aumont . And 2002 by Kevin Reynolds with James Cazievel , Daymara Domincyk , Guy Pearce , James Frain and Richard Harris as Abbe Faria.