The Count of Monte Cristo / Monte Cristo - DVD

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.

The Son of Monte Cristo is an American adventure film starring Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett and George Sanders. In 1865, the proletarian General Gurko Lanen (George Sanders) becomes the dictator of the Grand Duchy of Lichtenburg located in the Balkans. Gurko suppresses the clergy, the free press and the Prime Minister Baron Von Neuhoff (Montagu Love). The rightful ruler of the Duchy, Grand Duchess Zona (Joan Bennett) makes her escape in the hopes of getting aid from Napolean III of France, and is pursued by a troop of Hussars loyal to Gurko. While on a hunting trip, the Count of Monte Cristo (Louis Hayward) rescues her, and escorts her to a neutral country while Gurko's Hussars violate international neutrality to return the Duchess Zona and her lady-in-waiting to Lichtenburg. The Count becomes enamored of Zona and undertakes to help her, visiting the Grand Duchy where he falls in with the underground resistance movement of Lichtenburg. The count befriends the loyal Lt. Dorner (Clayton Moore) of the palace guard who knows a variety of secret passages leading from the Grand Ducal Palace to the catacombs of the Grand Duchy. The Count discovers that Baron Von Neuhoff is to be executed, so he plays the part of a foolish international banker as he was previously asked for a large loan of French Francs by Gurko. Then, he overhears Gurdo meeting with the French Ambassador (George Renavent) who raises the question of human rights in the Grand Duchy. Gurko counters by saying he is signing a non-aggression pact with Russia to protect Lichentenburg from any French threats. Gurko schemes to gain the nation's loyalty by marrying the Grand Duchess and keeping his pact with Russia a secret. The Count becomes a masked freedom fighter named 'The Torch' and sets off to right the wrongs and capture the heart of the woman he loves. But will he? Watch this exciting adventure to find out how

Part fact, part fiction, director Melville Shavelson's (The Five Pennies, Houseboat, The Seven Little Foys) Cast a Giant Shadow powerfully dramatizes Israel's heroic 1948 struggle for independence. Both realistic war story and passionate romance, it features an all-star cast including Kirk Douglas (Spartacus, Paths of Glory, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea), Senta Berger (Major Dundee, The Quiller Memorandum, TV's Under Suspicion), and Angie Dickinson (Rio Bravo, Dressed to Kill, Point Blank), as well as Yul Brynner (The King and I, The Magnificent Seven, Westworld), John Wayne (The Searchers, True Grit, Stagecoach, The Quiet Man), and Frank Sinatra (From Here to Eternity, The Manchurian Candidate, Ocean's Eleven) in notable supporting roles. After a brilliant career in the U.S. Army, Jewish American World War II hero Mickey Marcus is called to the new state of Israel to build an army capable of withstanding it's Arab foes. Against the wishes of his wife, Mickey makes the journey and begins transforming a ragtag underground army into a first-class fighting machine. But as the threat of war looms, Mickey must also confront his growing attraction to beautiful activist Magda Simon.