Writers: Alexandre Dumas, Philip Dunne, Dan Totheroh, Rowland V. Lee
Composer: Alfred Newman
Starring: Robert Donat, Elissa Landi, Louis Calhern, Sidney Blackmer, Raymond Walburn, O.P. Heggie, Irene Hervey, Georgia Caine, Walter Walker, Lawrence Grant, Luis Alberni
More info: IMDb
Tagline: An Eye For An Eye...But Three Lives Must Pay For Mine!
Plot: After greedy men have Edmound Dantes unjustly imprisoned for 20 years for innocently delivering a letter entrusted to him, he escapes to get his revenge on them.
My rating: 6.5/10
Will I watch it again? Nope.
It's OK. It's got that stagy quality you'd sometimes get from epics of this era where the acting is sometimes melodramatic to a fault. The sets and costumes look great, though. The picture was never dull so it's got that going for it. It's not a very rousing rendition of the classic Dumas story but I couldn't help but think that if this picture were handled by Warner Bros. instead of United Artists and then putting some better actors in the leads (like Basil Rathbone and Claude Rains), then you'd have a much more enjoyable movie. Donat does OK but he's not bringing the vigor and charisma I think this character needs.
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