Overview
A film adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond 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. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbe tells Edmond of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of...
Director and cast
- Emmett J. Flynn Director
- John Gilbert as Edmond Dantes, Count of Monte Cristo
- Estelle Taylor as Mercedes, Countess de Morcerf
- Robert McKim as De Villefort, the king's attorney
- William V. Mong as Caderousse, the innkeeper
- Virginia Brown Faire as Haidee, an Arabian Princess
- George Siegmann as Luigi Vampa, ex-pirate
- Spottiswoode Aitken as Abbé Faria
- Ralph Cloninger as Fernand, Count de Morcert
- Harry Lonsdale as Dantes, Father of Edmond
- Albert Prisco as Baron Danglars
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