The Son of Monte Cristo (1940)

Directed by

Rowland V. Lee

Genre

drama film, swashbuckler film, adventure film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 42m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 13 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The son of the famous Count of Monte Cristo gets involved in a conflict in a small European country. He helps a duchess fight against a corrupt general who has taken over the government.

adventurousromanticclassicheroicswashbucklingfast-paceddramaticlighthearted

What happens

The Son of Monte Cristo is a 1940 American black-and-white swashbuckler adventure film from United Artists, produced by Edward Small, directed by Rowland V. Lee, that stars Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett, and George Sanders. The Small production uses the same sets and many of the same cast and production crew as his previous year's production of The Man in the Iron Mask. Hayward returned to star in Small's The Return of Monte Cristo (1946). The film takes its name from The Son of Monte Cristo, the unofficial sequel to The Count of Monte Cristo, written by Jules Lermina in 1881. Using elements from several romantic swashbucklers of the time such as The Prisoner of Zenda and The Mark of Zorro the production also mirrors the situation of Continental Europe in 1939–1940. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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