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The Count of Monte Cristo (1943 film)

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The Count of Monte Cristo
Directed byRobert Vernay
Written byCharles Spaak
Based onLe Comte de Monte-Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas père
Produced byArys Nissotti
Pierre O'Connell
StarringPierre Richard-Willm
Michèle Alfa
Aimé Clariond
CinematographyVictor Arménise
Edited byJean Feyte
Music byRoger Desormière
Production
companies
Regina Films
Excelsa Film
Distributed byVariety Distribution
Release date
  • 21 January 1943 (1943-01-21) (France)
Running time
183 minutes
CountriesFrance
Italy
LanguagesFrench
Italian

The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le comte de Monte Cristo) is a 1943 French-Italian historical drama film directed by Robert Vernay with Ferruccio Cerio as the supervising director. Based on the classic 1844 novel Le Comte de Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas père, this two-part film stars Pierre Richard-Willm in the title role. It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome and the Cité Elgé in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director René Renoux.

Plot

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Edmond Dantès, first mate of a merchant ship returning from the Orient, having taken command of his ship after the death of the captain, docks at Elba to deliver a letter to Napoleon. As a result of this imprudence, committed to respect the will of his predecessor, he falls victim to a plot hatched by the sailor Caderousse, by the officer Fernand Mondego (later Count de Morcerf), in love with Mercédès, Dantès's fiancée, and by the magistrate Gérard de Villefort (who fears to be compromised by the ultra-Bonapartist activities of his father, General Noirtier). Dantes is then taken in secret to the depths of a castle off the coast of Marseille

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