The Count of Monte Cristo (1934) on Netflix
In 1815, sailor Edmond Dantès is arrested over a letter from the exiled Napoleon, on the word of Danglars. Danglars wants his captaincy; his friend Fernand Mondego wants his fiancée, Mercedes.
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In 1815, a French merchant ship puts in at Elba, and its captain is handed a letter from the exiled Napoleon. Before he dies of sickness, the captain asks his first officer, Edmond Dantès, to deliver it in Marseille. There Danglars, the second officer, informs the magistrate, Raymond de Villefort Jr., and Dantès is seized after the exchange. Fernand Mondego accompanies him to jail, though the arrest serves three men: Mondego loves Dantès' fiancée, Mercedes, Danglars wants the captain's place, and de Villefort's own father took the letter. De Villefort sends Dantès to the Château d'If without trial. Years of solitary confinement pass until another prisoner, the Abbé Faria, tunnels into his cell. The two join forces, and Faria begins to educate him.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Count of Monte Cristo (1934)
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- By screenwriter Philip Dunne's count, only seven words of Alexandre Dumas survived into the finished dialogue: "the world is mine!", spoken when Edmond Dantès finds his treasure, and "one, two, three" as he disposes of his enemies.
- Producer Edward Small's original choice for Edmond Dantès was Fredric March; Robert Donat took the title role instead, cast under an international star-loan deal negotiated by United Artists' Joseph Schenck.
- Screenwriter Philip Dunne admitted to director Rowland V. Lee that he had never read Dumas' novel, so Lee acted the story out for him and Dunne wrote down the director's dialogue, earning his first screen credit.
- The 1934 picture was the first sound adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo, following five silent films based on the novel.
