Alexander Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo

Alexander Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo [videorecording] / 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. - Burbank, CA : Touchstone Home Entertainment : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, c2002. - 1 videodisc (131 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

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.

Director of photography, Andrew Dunn ; editors, Stephen Semel, Chris Womack ; music, Edward Shearmur ; costume designer, Tom Rand ; production designer, Mark Geraghty. Director of photography, Andrew Dunn ; editors, Stephen Semel, Chris Womack ; music, Edward Shearmur ; costume designer, Tom Rand ; production designer, Mark Geraghty.

Jim Caviezel, Guy Pearce, Richard Harris, James Frain, Dagmara Dominczyk, Michael Wincott, Luis Guzman.

An innocent man, Edmond Dantes, is imprisoned for years on a godforsaken island while the friend who betrayed him takes Dantes ravishing fiancâe 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.

MPAA rating: PG-13.




DVD, 5.1 Dolby digital.


English or French dialogue, Spanish subtitles.

0788838121 9780788838125

786936165395

24019 Touchstone Home Entertainment


False imprisonment--Drama.
Escapes--Drama.
Treasure-trove--Drama.
Feature films.
Video recordings.


Adventure films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

CM DVD 00439

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