The Count of Monte-Cristo Page #6

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


- I Require to know it! - I will carry

the matter before the Camera!

- Before the Meeting of governors.

- Danglars, be trusted that is a rabble.

Is a good counsel. I will

carry it to the courts.

after me! I will carry it first.

Not, I first!

Accused of false representation,

Professional ineptitude.

Embezzlement!

I will withdraw my money of this bank!

Yes, I also. Before it harms the rush.

The rush?

If itself cannot be trusted

in the major bank of Paris,

in who can be trusted?

- I will withdraw my funds right now.

Not haytiempo that to lose.

Three.

Albert!

how pleasant surprise.

I have not come to exchange

hypocritical courtesies,

but to require an explanation.

Aqu you have come?

every Paris speech of the

history that counts the newspaper.

The one that puts in prohibition

the name of my father.

Its integrity, its

military feats, its honor.

Yes?

Is in the "Journal du Globe". The

newspaper that you acquired does little.

you are in my house. Only I

can raise the voice in her.

you Deny to be the

responsible for such history?

Not.

I consider launched the glove.

Tomorrow. In the country

of Mars, al to wake up.

in the country of Mars.

Why?

you would not kill my son?

it has challenged Me, lady.

What you expected of a proud

son? The general is its father!

- I had father.

- You will Know how feels the boy.

you will Understand the jealous thing

that is of the good name of the general.

how general?

My matter is with a lieutenant that knew.

- What matter?

- Revenge, lady.

By marrying the woman that you loved?

does not deserve your revenge.

I I went!

I was weak, it could not

bear more the solitude!

I married him because they told me

that you had died in the castle of If

shortly after the arrest.

Why did I finish in the castle

of If? Why did they arrest me?

do not I know it!

I Suppose that you recognize the letter.

- How have you obtained it?

- With bribes, lady.

can not be.

because of this letter I lived 14

years in a dungeon of the castle of If.

So near vos, and without

knowing that you had you married.

Neither that my father

had died, of hunger.

Of hunger!

did not know it!

we had gone.

you want that forgive for to

have stolen the love with deceits?

Very well, if you ask it me, I forgive it.

you want that forgive that they

have me stolen 14 years of life?

Very well, forgiven.

But that forgive the to

have killed my father?

Never never, lady.

In dreams I have seen you dead person.

Thrown alfondo of the well

where the jailers throw

the dead prisoners.

AND medespierto of this recurrent dream

with a horrifying and cold crying.

you dreamed some time that your

father itself mora of hunger?

you dreamed that the beloved

person gave the hand to a rival one

while vos you perished

in the fund of the well?

Worse!

I have seen the beloved person

on the verge of murdering my son.

Edmundo, please!

What well has done me to cry you

in it more hidden of the heart?

When I gave you by dead

person, I must have died I also.

But I continued living foolishly,

and during almost 20 years

I compared to all the men

with vos and none reached you.

to lose you has been a daily

torment, year after year.

AND in that time my only

consolation has been my son,

my innocent son that must have been ours.

Our son, Edmundo.

Ready?

it has said it You.

All.

I offer You my excuses.

you have the right to unmask my father.

again the providence.

I Am the emissary of God.

they have saved me to comply their will.

General Mondego, this

committee of the parliament

is conscious of your illustrious past.

we greet with respect the

condecoraciones that you light up

as memory of your

extraordinary military career.

therefore causes us great to weigh

to read the revelations of the

newspaper "Journal du Globe".

Yesterday began threatening

large revelations,

and today continues with a long

list of serious accusations.

Says that in the war of Greece,

when you were the embajadorfrancs

in the cut of Ali Pasha, You

betraied it with the Turks.

Says here that...

Lordship, I can proceed to defend me?

Proceed.

Documents.

A letter signed by Ali Pasha

in which places in me a great confidence.

Tantafe had in me that the care of

its woman entrusted me and daughter.

Its woman and daughter!

What was of its woman and daughter?

I sought them without

ceasing during the battle.

My life was in constant danger,

but I sought them to finding them.

The enemy had sacrificed them.

you have tests that verify

the truth of it affirmed?

Lordship, if is not sufficient

test the word of Ali Pasha,

I offer you my word of

honor as French official.

finally and not less important... this.

you Asked witnesses and tests.

I ask witnesses in my against.

What tests there is? An article

in an insidious newspaper?

Who facilitated him those lies al daily?

Where is? That come and a

glove to the face throw me.

Mister count, your defense

has glints of validity,

your arguments are gotten it right.

You satisfar to know the content

of the note that have just received.

I been present in the death of Ali Pasha.

I Know which was the destiny of

its woman and of its daughter.

Claim the honor of to be listened.

Who has written those words?

Is not signed, But we can cite

altestigo if you approve it.

Only if you approve it.

That appear.

That appear.

Identifquese, please.

I Am the daughter of Ali Pasha.

you have before my birth

certificate and baptism.

Also is there the receipt

of the sale of my person

and of my mother.

The sale, it says?

sold Us as the slaves a French

official for 40.000 franks.

How that official is called?

Fernando Mondego.

My noble father trusted in

vos. Loved you as to a son.

trusted You the security of

its daughter and its woman.

But you are a liar, a traitor, a murderer!

Murderous!

it was your sword the

one that killed my father!

General,? you are going to respond?

Are lies! Lies!

you Accept the word of an infidel

before that that of a general

of the army of the king?

That woman is an impostora!

Who is an impostora?

Is the daughter of the Ali Pasha.

these documents they show it.

They will speak for itself.

Ycuando have itself

verified, general Mondego,

count of Mondego, hero of Yanina...

Which is your relation with this woman?

you Ask you which is my relation

with a such Edmundo Dantes.

Edmundo.

at last the light is done.

Our sailor has returned from

the island of the dead persons.

it Insists on carrying out its

revenge. I begin to see it clearly.

Caderousse dead, and Danglars dead.

Villefort locked in a sanitarium.

Is my shift, Edmundo?

Yes.

you have done it of exceptional form.

you have unmasked Us one

to one and have struck.

you Ruin a man with exquisite elegance.

But before kill to this dog, Be careful.

Barks.

Bites.

Al to have ruined, you give

me motives to avenge me.

I will demand the right to return to

the dead persons with the dead persons.

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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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