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Monte Cristo is a american film of genre Drama directed by Emmett J. Flynn released in USA on 3 september 1922 with John Gilbert

Monte Cristo (1922)

Monte Cristo
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Released in USA 3 september 1922
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OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Romance
Rating67% 3.3861053.3861053.3861053.3861053.386105

Monte Cristo is a 1922 American silent film produced and distributed by Fox Film Corporation and directed by Emmett J. Flynn. It is based on the novel The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, which was adapted by 19th century thespian Charles Fechter and written for this screen version by Bernard McConville. John Gilbert plays the hero with Estelle Taylor as the leading lady. This film was long thought lost until a print surfaced in the Czech Republic. The film has been released on DVD, packaged with Gilbert's 1926 MGM film Bardelys the Magnificent.

Synopsis

Le scénario est basé sur une pièce de Charles Fechter, elle-même basée sur le célèbre roman d'Alexandre Dumas.

Actors

John Gilbert

(Edmond Dantes, Count of Monte Cristo)Estelle Taylor

(Mercedes, Countess de Morcerf)William V. Mong

(Caderousse, the innkeeper)Robert McKim

(De Villefort, the king's attorney)Spottiswoode Aitken

(Abbé Faria)
And :
Virginia Brown Faire
Renée Adorée
George Siegmann
Francis McDonald
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