The Count of Monte Cristo (1934 film)

The Count of Monte Cristo is a 1934 American adventure film directed by Rowland V. Lee and starring Robert Donat and Elissa Landi. Based on the 1844 novel The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, the story concerns a man who is unjustly imprisoned foryears for innocently delivering a letter entrusted to him. When he finally escapes, he seeks revenge against the greedy men who conspired to put him in prison.

In 1815, a French merchant ship stops at the island of Elba. A letter from the exiled Napoleon is given to the ships captain to deliver to a man in Marseille. Before he dies of a sickness, the captain entrusts the task to his first officer, Edmond Dants Donat. However, the city magistrate, Raymond de Villefort, Jr. Calhern, is tipped off by an informer, the second officer, Danglars Raymond Walburn, and has both men arrested after the exchange.Dants friend Fernand Mondego Sidney Blackmer accompanies him to the jail. However, he, Danglars, and de Villefort all stand to gain from keeping Dants imprisoned Mondego is in love with Dants fiance, Mercedes Landi Danglars wants to be promoted captain in Dants place and the man who accepted the letter turns out to be de Villeforts father Lawrence Grant. De Villefort consigns Dants without trial to a notorious prison, the Chteau dIf, on the false testimony of Danglars. ........

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