Secret Of Monte Cristo, The - DVD

Epic and crowd-pleasing take on the Dumas adventure classic stars Pierre Niney as early-19th-century seaman Edmond Dantès, unjustly imprisoned as a Bonapartist for 14 years. Making a miraculous escape-and pointed toward a fabulous treasure-he executes a calculated and exacting revenge against the conspirators who betrayed him. Bastien Bouillon, Laurent Lafitte, Anaïs Demoustier, Anamaria Vartolomei, Pierfrancesco Favino also star. 178 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack French; Subtitles English. In French with English subtitles.

The unthinkable has happened. France has fallen. Flags of Nazi occupation fly throughout the land. Defiantly, the resistance group called the Marquis fights back with sabotage and reconnaissance. Yet somewhere in that courageous organization, a turncoat lurks. Operation Secret, from the director of Breakthrough and Guadalcanal Diary, opens with the convening of a tribunal intent on identifying the traitor. Key testimony unveils via flas

Uncovered InchDuPont Show of the MonthInch mounting of the Alexandre Dumas adventure staple stars Hurd Hatfield as Edmond Dantes, the young sailor railroaded by his conspiring rivals and consigned to the bleak prison known as the Château d'If. Tipped to a fabulous fortune cache by fellow prisoner Abbé Faria (George Voskovec), Dantes first engineers escape-and then a course of payback for his accusers. Elizabeth Sellars, Ina Balin, John Colicos, Torin Thatcher co-star; Sidney Lumet directs. 90 min. Standard; Soundtrack English.