Alexander Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo / [videorecording]

Alexander Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo / [videorecording] Count of Monte Cristo. Alexandre Dumas. - Widescreen. - Burbank, CA Touchstone Home Entertainment : distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment c2002 - DVD, 5.1 Dolby digital. 1 videodisc (131 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Also issued on VHS. Based on the novel by Alexander Dumas. Cast: Jim Caviezel, Guy Pearce, Richard Harris. MPAA rating: PG-13. Special features: commentary by Kevin Reynolds; theatrical trailer; The Pen (feature on Alexandre Dumas); adapting a classic (screenwriting feature); The Napoleonic World (production design feature); The Clash Of Steel (fight choreography feature); deleted scenes; sword choreography; the final duel; layer by layer sound design; Edmonds escape.

An innocent man, Edmond Dantes, is imprisoned for years on a godforsaken island while the friend who betrayed him takes Dantes ravishing fianc ̌for himself. Dantes eventually escapes, recovers a fortune in buried pirate treasure, transforms himself into the mysterious Count of Monte Cristo, and methodically goes about exacting his revenge.

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Adventure films.
Revenge--Drama
France--History--Drama