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Overview
Le Comte de Monte Cristo is an Italian-French adventure film first released in 1961,
directed by Claude Autant-Lara.
The film is based on a novel by Alexandre Dumas père and stars Louis Jourdan, Yvonne Furneaux, Pierre Mondy, Bernard Dhéran and Franco Silva.
It has also been released under the title: The Count of Monte Cristo.
Our overall rating for this film is: good.
Synopsis
A young sailor, Edmond Dantès, is to marry his beloved Mercédès but
on the day of his engagement he is arrested for treason, the victim of a plot by those
who envy his good fortune. Imprisoned on the island of Yf, where he is to spend
the rest of his life, Dantès meets a fellow prisoner, Abbé Faria, who tells
him the location of a fabulous treasure. When Faria dies, many years later, Dantès
disguises himself as the body and manages to escape from the island prison. Having
recovered the lost treasure, he returns to take revenge on those who had him arrested.
Film Review
One of the standard bearers of quality cinema in France of the 1950s, Claude Autant-Lara
is ideally suited to make a faithful adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ ever-popular novel.
Whilst not as inspired as some of Autant-Lara’s earlier works, this is nonetheless a well-crafted,
engaging piece of cinema, which perfectly captures the romanticism of the original novel.
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