The Count of Monte-Cristo Page #5

Synopsis: A TV adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbe tells Edmond of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of. After many years in prison, the old Abbe dies, and Edmond escapes disguised as the dead body. Now free, Edmond must find the treasure the Abbe told him of, so he can use the new-found wealth to exact revenge on those who have wronged him.
Director(s): David Greene
Production: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
 
IMDB:
7.0
NOT RATED
Year:
1975
103 min
1,787 Views


Second, desire to buy

Spanish government bonds.

- What quantity of money?

- A million.

In Spanish bonds?

can be done immediately?

Immediately.

AND confidentially.

With the greater discretion.

would not be advisable that to

continue my example in the market.

I Am unjugador, not an investor.

good morning. Tomorrow I

leave to London by business.

you give him memories

to that ciudadfascinante.

Although the English

never will learn to eat.

there are places.

As vos and I we know, the

money buys cualquiercosa.

Any thing.

Girard!

it Order the purchase of

a million in Spanish bonds

for the count of Montecristo.

Spanish?

AND another million for

me, of my private account.

But the Spanish bonds are...

When buys Montecristo, I also.

it has forgot the results

of the last time that

continue its example?

But he knows that vos...?

is Put in contact with our main clients.

Delidia and Bolfa.

Tell them that the house Danglars

recommends that be invested

in Spanish bonds.

Do it, right now!

By the count of Montecristo.

Is this its station of signs?

Mine? I work in her since many years ago,

but never had had visit.

How functions?

there is another station

in the distant horizon.

Is my correspondent of the right hand.

AND there is my left hand.

When I receive a message of the

right, I transmit it to the left.

The messages of Spain

are transmitted to Paris

in question of hours.

A miracle of the modernity!

Are 3.000 franks.

The salary of 5 years

sitransmite this message to Paris.

But is not an official!

Is an insult, mister.

Is an insult!

Impossible!

Is the official service of telegraphs.

The king Mr. Carlos has invaded

Spain by the Catalonian border.

Explodes the civil war.

The civil war!

what will happen with the Spanish bonds?

- Mister, I suggest that...

- Yes, sugiera, sugiera.

A fast sale. As soon as possible, better.

Yes, that is. Vendatodos the bonds.

as soon as it open the market.

My reputation! The reputation of the bank!

I Invest the money of my clients

in civil wars, in cataclysms!

will remain me some client tomorrow?

- Has some suggestion more?

- Yes, you cover all the losses.

Yes, with the reserves of the bank.

With yours.

Is crazy.

I can give already the order of sale.

What do you want of me?

A little sutiempo, that will be paid him.

Avuestra disposition.

Its name is Caderousse.

My true name. How do you know it?

it has passed 7 years in

the wagons of its majesty.

- Tried to escape once.

- Yes.

AND if was not by...

By its companion of leak. It betraied it.

Faustino! My life only has a purpose.

to find it and to kill it.

The revenge is something candy

for which to live, or to die.

Mister, I have other matters

that will occupy me only a moment.

would import him esperarfuera?

Avuestra disposition.

- Mister.

- Mister.

Faustino!

Faustino!

Accustom God is good.

Dequ infernal hole you

have returned to the life?

Of the well in which

you left me dying man.

you have seen it? It attacked me!

- What could do?

- You carry it the police.

you Know this man?

Who you are, Montecristo? Who you are?

you carry.

One.

is not of the house of Cavalcanti?

it is called Benedetto.

Its last clear, known name. Is

a notable fugitive delinquent.

Yquiere to marry my daughter. I

should admit that him not value lacks.

has escaped from wagons,

among others crimes.

Deceived!

has deceived Us to all, even

al infallible Montecristo.

A Cavalcanti said! Upstart! Rabble!

Has insulted me personally,

what obliges me to be part in this case.

in fact, is a moral duty.

The extreme anointing?

not Yet they have judged me.

is gone, chaplain.

Andrea of Cavalcanti?

is gone!

Faustino.

Vos!

My sacred protector. You are going

to protect me of the guillotine?

they will not condemn you

if you do what I tell you.

Memorizes well the first page.

you familiarize you

with the other documents.

I will Be in the court.

Me do not lose sight of.

This man, Andrea, Benedetto, Faustino...

therefore adopts a new

name for each misdeed,

is not a third-rate delinquent.

Is a teacher of the subtlety,

a magician of the embaucamiento.

But they have trapped this murderer in

the act, with the weapon in the hands,

being licked before the

corpse of its victim.

Only there is a possible verdict

on the future of this miserable creature.

The death!

Order in the room. Order! Order!

standing the defendant.

you Say name and surnames.

Lordship, I will give you my name alfinal.

The defendant can be denied. We proceed.

Age?

I Am 21 years old. I was born

the 27 of setiembre of 1817.

Where did you be born?

In Auteuil, near Paris.

Profession?

I Am a professional.

Falsificador and thief.

from time to time, murderous.

Some question, Mr. Villefort?

The court has done all

its questions, save a.

you consent now in saying your true name?

I do not know it, but I know

the name about my father.

Repeat the name of its father.

My father is the proxy of the king.

How do you say?

is called Villefort.

Order, order!

Silence or eviction the room! Silence!

In 1817, the Mr. Villefort rented a

house in the 28 of the street Fontaine,

in the village of Auteuil.

for the purpose of maintaining

hidden of the company to unajoven.

After a year of secret life in Auteuil,

the young woman, for anger of

Villefort, gave birth a boy.

The mother died to the

few hours of the labor.

That night Villefort caught al

boy, wrapped it in a blanket,

and buried the alive in

eljardn of the house.

Lordship, a servant witnessed the burial

since one of the windows of the house.

Was he who disinterred al boy.

Al to see that still was alive,

delivered me in an orphanage.

at the age of 13 I escaped from the

house and I initiated the criminal career

that al final me hatrado

before this court, lordship.

The rent of the house of Auteuil

signed by the Mr. Villefort.

The death certificate of the

young lady Emilie Goncourt,

signed by Hippolyte Fleury, of Auteuil.

A certificate of the same doctor

that assures that the Mr. Villefort

was the father of the boy.

Statements, testament, sworn confessions,

etc, etc, etc.

Two.

The newspaper of this morning.

Would be advisable that...

Not.

- What happens?

- Not, not!

Not, not, not, not!

Listen, Girard.

The "Journal du Globe" published

yesterday without any base

the disturbance in Spain.

The cause of the errorfue a

telegraphic message badly interpreted

because of the fog.

do not there was invasion!

there is not war! Spain is in peace!

Danglars,? has read the

newspaper? What is happening knows.

therefore had the magnanimity

to cover our losses?

wanted to buy us the bonds.

Gentlemen, I swear them

that I have also sold mine.

Lie! It do not I believe, Danglars!

- Knows what has done me to lose?

- I Suppose that has read the newspaper.

- they have not lost anything.

- When I do not win, I lose.

- I want to know what is what happens.

- I have covered to the last cent.

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Sidney Carroll

Sidney Carroll (May 25, 1913 – November 3, 1988) was a film and television screenwriter. Although Carroll wrote most frequently for television, he is perhaps best remembered today for writing the screenplays for The Hustler (1961) for which he was nominated for an Academy Award and for A Big Hand for the Little Lady (1966). He has also won Emmys for the documentaries The Louvre (1978) and China and the Forbidden City (1963). In 1957, Carroll won an Edgar Award, in the category Best Episode in a TV Series, for writing "The Fine Art of Murder", an installment of the ABC program Omnibus. He wrote the screenplays for the 1974 Richard Chamberlain television version of The Count of Monte Cristo as well as the original story for the Michael Caine heist movie Gambit. He continued to write for television until 1986. more…

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