The Count of Monte Cristo [videorecording (DVD)] / Touchstone Pictures and Spyglass Entertainment present a Birnbaum/Barber production, a Kevin Reynolds film ; producers, Roger Birnbaum, Gary Barber, Jonathan Glickman ; screenplay writer, Jay Wolpert ; director, Kevin Reynolds.
Based on the novel by Alexander Dumas. Special features: commentary by Kevin Reynolds; theatrical trailer; The Pen (feature on Alexandre Dumas); adapting a classic (screenwriting feature); The Napoleonic World (production design feature); The Clash Of Steel (fight choreography feature); deleted scenes; sword choreography; the final duel; layer by layer sound design; Edmonds escape; widescreen. Jim Caviezel, Guy Pearce, Richard Harris, James Frain, Dagmara Dominczyk, Michael Wincott, Luis Guzman.
Summary:
An innocent man, Edmond Dantes, is imprisoned for years on a godforsaken island while the friend who betrayed him takes Dantes ravishing fiancé for himself. Dantes eventually escapes, recovers a fortune in buried pirate treasure, transforms himself into the mysterious Count of Monte Cristo, and methodically goes about exacting his revenge.
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