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  • Monte Cristo (1911)
  • Short | Drama, Short
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Monte Cristo (1911)
Short | Drama, Short
The story opens with Edmund Dantes landing from his ship. Then follow his greeting of his father, his love scene with Mercedes in which Fernand's jealous hatred is aroused, the conspiracy of Danglars and Fernand and the betrothal in the ...See moreThe story opens with Edmund Dantes landing from his ship. Then follow his greeting of his father, his love scene with Mercedes in which Fernand's jealous hatred is aroused, the conspiracy of Danglars and Fernand and the betrothal in the arbor at which Dantes is torn from his sweetheart's side by the soldiers who arrest him. We see Dantes in prison breaking through the wall, his meeting with the Abbe Faria, then the death of the Abbe who gives to Dantes the secret of the treasure buried on the Isle of Monte Cristo. Dantes escapes in the bag which contains the Abbe's dead body, his discovering the treasure at Monte Cristo in a grotto. In a magnificent ballroom scene Dantes meets Fernand and Mercedes, now his wife, who recognizes her first lover. The duel with Albert who is saved by his mother, Mercedes, the arrest of Fernand through Monte Cristo's effort and Fernand's death in prison. Danglars as the Abbe of Busoni, after making Danglars bankrupt, tortures him by starvation until he gives up a million for food and goes out a broken man. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Alexandre Dumas (novel) (as Alexandre Dumas père)
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Updated Jan 14, 1911
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Jan 14, 1911 (United States)

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