Edmund Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'if. There, a prisoner tells Edmund of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island.
Cast
Louis Jourdan as Edmond Dantès / Comte de Monte Cristo
Variety wrote the producers "have spared little expense in mounting a pictorially rich and dramatically expansive reproduction of the story...But one vital miscaiculation strips their effort-of sufficient appeal for the bulk of the: modern audience. In adhering rigidiy to the plodding, stilted and weighty melodramatic style reasonably fashionable in less suphisticated by gone times, the creators of this version have failed to sense, or refused to reckon with, the realistic requirements of modern screen."[5]
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