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The Count of Monte Cristo (1961)

The Count of Monte Cristo poster
Original title
Le Comte de Monte-Cristo
Directed by
Claude Autant-Lara
Genre
drama film, adventure film
Country
France, Italy
Runtime
3h
Rated
12
Rating
7.2 of 10 from 40 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man is wrongly imprisoned for years. After escaping, he finds a treasure and reinvents himself as a wealthy count to exact revenge on those who betrayed him.

classicgrandnostalgicsweepingdramaticromanticsuspensefulrevenge-driven

What happens

The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le comte de Monte Cristo, US: The Story of the Count of Monte Cristo) is a 1961 French adventure film version of Alexandre Dumas' 1844 novel directed by Claude Autant-Lara and starring Louis Jourdan, Yvonne Furneaux, Pierre Mondy and Franco Silva. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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