Adequate rendition based on the classic tale of romance , revenge and retribution
Fine recounting packing adventures , action , romance , derring-do and it turns out to be enough entertaining as well as enjoyable . Set in the turbulent years after fall Napoleon, who was banished and isolated at Island of Elba . Stars Edmund Dantes : Richard Chamberlain , he is falsely incarcerated by a fake set-up schemed by his enemies , caused by his good fortune and gorgeous girlfriend : Kate Nelligan . He is wrongly imprisoned in Island of If , where he meets an old prisoner , Abbe Faria : Trevor Howard .Abbe becomes his teacher and mentor , later on , he tells Edmund a fantastic treasure hidden away at a far Island , that only he knows the location of . After long years in prison , Edmund escapes and he seeks a merciless vendetta against his old contenders. After that , Edmund proceeds to become himself into the wealthy Count of Montecristo , taking a new identity by surprising his enemy traitors .The revenge is ready against the nasty traitors who accused him .This faithful filmization is a good and agreeable remake of the Alexandre Dumas tale by the same name , containing adventures , feats , action , fencing , romance and anything else . Decent and adequate recounting about the famous novel written by Alexandre Dumas . Including thrills, emotion , a betrayed love story and a relentless vengeance .Stars Richard Chamberlain as unfortunate Edmund who transforms into a powerful count , he goes into action to reclaim his ex-fiancee Mercedes : Kate Nelligan and while seeking vendetta . Concerning the known plot in which Edmund Dantes is unjustly sent to jail for 18 years at the Chateau-Island of If , being framed as sender of Napoleon's letters. As at the If prison he plots revenge against those who betrayed him , these are well played by a good plethora of secondaries giving appropriate interpretations , as DanGlars is nicely performed by Donald Pleasence , De Vilefort: : Louis Jourdan , and , of course , the greatest villain , Fernando Montego : Tony Curtis . Adding other suppport cast providing brief acting such as Angelo Infanti , Alessio Orano , Harry Baird , Andrea Fantasia , Dominic Guard , Anthony Dawson and Taryn Power , Tyrone Power's daughter . The motion picture was professionally directed by TV director David Greene. He made several TV series and episodes, such as Roots , Rich man poor man , Playhouse , Prototype , Defenders, Ghost dancing , Princess in love , What happened Baby Jane and ocasionally some films as Gospell, Red alert, I start counting and The people next door.
This is a TV renditíon , other adaptations are the followings : Classic black and white retelling Count of Montecristo by Rowland V. Lee with Robert Donat , Louisa Landi , Louis Calhern . Argentina versión El Conde de Montecristo 1953 by León Klimovski with Jorge Mistral. Le comte Montecristo 1961 by Claude Aunt Lara with Louis Jourdan as Montecristo. Tv series retelling Le conté de Montecristo 1979 with Jacques Wever . Tv nice versión by José Dayan in 1998 with Gérard Depardieu , Ornella Muti , Jean Rochefort , Pierre Arditi , Michael Aumont . And 2002 by Kevin Reynolds with James Cazievel , Daymara Domincyk , Guy Pearce , James Frain and Richard Harris as Abbe Faria.
score 6/10
ma-cortes 29 August 2019
Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw5087315/34814
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