The Count of Monte Cristo (1934)

Name: The Count of Monte Cristo
Genre: Drama, Adventure
Released: 1934
Duration: 113 min
Rating: 6.8

★ 6.8· 113 min· Drama, Adventure

Young sailor Edmond Dantès is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes, finds treasure, and reinvents himself as the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo to exact revenge on those who betrayed him.

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Cast

Robert Donat

Edmond Dantes

Elissa Landi

Mercedes

Louis Calhern

De Villefort Jr.

Sidney Blackmer

Mondego

Raymond Walburn

Danglars

O. P. Heggie

Abbe Faria

Irene Hervey

Valentine

Georgia Caine

Mme. De Rosas

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Walter Walker

Morrel

Lawrence Grant

De Villefort Sr.

Robert Donat — Edmond Dantes

Robert Donat (born Friedrich Robert Donat) was a star English film and stage actor. He is best remembered for his roles in The 39 Steps (1935) and Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939), the latter which earned him a Best Actor Academy Award.

Elissa Landi — Mercedes

Elissa Landi (December 6, 1904 – October 21, 1948) was an Italian born actress who was popular in Hollywood films of the 1920s and 1930s. Rumoured to be a descendant of Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria, she was noted for her aristocratic bearing.

Louis Calhern — De Villefort Jr.

Carl Henry Vogt (February 19, 1895 – May 12, 1956), known professionally as Louis Calhern, was an American stage and screen actor. For portraying Oliver Wendell Holmes in the film The Magnificent Yankee (1950), he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. Calhern began working in silent films for director Lois Weber in the early 1920s; the most notable being The Blot in 1921. A 1921 news