The Count of Monte Cristo

FINALLY!!!
Even back when all that existed was the original Nostalgia Merchant VHS, this has always been my favorite version which is curious to a degree, because it is probably the least faithful adaptation of the story to the screen. I have never heard of Hen's Tooth Video before this, but believe me, they have earned my deepest respect by bringing original UNCUT classics such as this, Louis Hayward's Man In The Iron Mask, and Fairbanks Jr.`s The Corsican Brothers (coming in April) to DVD.

Hen's Tooth did a pretty good job cleaning this up from the original fine grain print for what they had to work with. I'm sure if a major company got their hands on it, it would have silkened a bit more. However, I can't complain. This is as crisp and clean as I've ever seen it.

Donat's Edmund Dantes is like Connery's James Bond. Yes, there have been other fine actors who carried the role but nothing quite like this. He has always been a fair-skinned actor. Given that plus the...

Great movie, thanks for not going the DVD-R route.
Wonderful movie that I haven't seen in at least thirty years, and then it was on TV. No features, not unusual in a film from the thirty's, and a very decent copy with excellent clarity and sound.

I'm very grateful that this movie, as well as "The Coriscan Brothers" has been done on a regular pressed DVD disk, not the damned DVD-R. In my researches I've found that one season stored in a hot and/or humid place can cause the DVD-R disks to degrade. Which is why the local library, may accept donations, but will not buy a DVD-R disk with their own funds.

Now, I wonder where and for how much I can get Richard Chamberlains version of TCOMC?

The Count Has Never Been Better
I read the complete unabridged Dumas novel last year............it was long ( Dumas was paid by the word ) but wonderful. What a story teller he was..........Hollywood has used his stuff so often ( Three Musketeers, Man in the Iron Mask, Camille, and The Count of Monte Cristo ) he should be awarded a screen writing Oscar posthumously............and for good measure the opera La Traviata by Verdi is based on a Dumas play...........to repeat: this guy could tell a story.

The Count can not be filmed as written...too long, too many sub plots, too unwieldy........so, adapting requires a lot of creativity. This movie veers from the book a lot particularly in the end, but it is well adapted and the story flows very well. I like this screenplay better than the 2002 version.

The movie itself is pure delight...Elissa Landi is a great Mercedes, Robert Donat is magnificent as the Count, the actor,O.P. Heggie, who played the blind hermit in the Bride of Frankenstein does a...

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