He frees himself and is picked up by a smuggling ship.ĭantès later follows Faria's directions and finds the treasure on the uninhabited island of Monte Cristo. The body is sewn into a shroud, but while the undertaker is away, Dantès substitutes himself for the corpse undetected. Before he dies, he bequeaths a vast hidden treasure to his protégé (Faria's enemies had tortured and imprisoned him in an unsuccessful attempt to extract its location).
In the meantime, he starts educating Dantès.Īs they near their goal, a cave-in fatally injures the old man. The two join forces Faria calculates it will take five more years to finish. Heggie), a fellow prisoner, breaks into his cell through a tunnel he has been digging. Deceived, she gives in to her mother's deathbed wish and marries Mondego.Įight years of solitary confinement follow for Dantès. When Napoleon returns to France, giving Dantès' friends hope for his release, de Villefort signs a false statement that he was killed trying to escape, which Mondego shows to Mercedes.
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De Villefort consigns Dantès without trial to a notorious prison, the Château d'If, on the false testimony of Danglars. (Calhern), is tipped off by an informer, the second officer, Danglars ( Raymond Walburn), and has both men arrested after the exchange.ĭantès' friend Fernand Mondego ( Sidney Blackmer) accompanies him to the jail, but he, Danglars, and de Villefort all stand to gain from keeping Dantès imprisoned: Mondego is in love with Dantès' fiancée, Mercedes (Landi) Danglars wants to be promoted captain in Dantès' place and the man who accepted the letter turns out to be de Villefort's father ( Lawrence Grant). However, the city magistrate, Raymond de Villefort, Jr. Before he dies of a sickness, the captain entrusts the task to his first officer, Edmond Dantès (Donat). A letter from the exiled Napoleon is given to the ship's captain to deliver to a man in Marseille. In 1815, a French merchant ship stops at the island of Elba. Robert Donat and Elissa Landi in The Count of Monte Cristo
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