The Count of Monte Cristo (1975)

Original title

The Count of Monte-Cristo

Directed by

David Greene

Genre

drama film, adventure film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 59m

Rated

12

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 187 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man is wrongfully imprisoned and later escapes. He reinvents himself as a wealthy count to systematically take revenge on those who betrayed him.

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What happens

The Count of Monte Cristo is a 1975 television film produced by ITC Entertainment and based upon the 1844 novel The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. Like the novel, the film emphasizes the theme of revenge and manipulation of characters by the main character, Edmond Dantès. The film was directed by David Greene and stars Richard Chamberlain as Edmond Dantès, Kate Nelligan as Mercedes, Tony Curtis as Fernand Mondego, Louis Jourdan (who played Dantès in the 1961 film adaptation of the novel) as De Villefort, Donald Pleasence as Danglars, Trevor Howard as Abbé Faria, and Isabelle de Valvert as Haydee. ITC had previously produced a 39-part TV series based on the same source material and broadcast in 1956. This film had a theatrical release across some European countries. The film was remade in 1986 in Telugu as Veta. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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