T he Count of Monte Cristo is the third most famous fictional count, after Sesame Street’s numerically obsessed vampire ‘The ...

A duel between two hot-headed young men, both in love with the same girl, leads to the death ... the last being a friend of Monte Cristo. Now the Count must find out the reason behind the duels.

The Count of Monte Cristo even made his presence felt in an episode of The Simpsons. But a new screen adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ 1846 tale of a man who seeks his revenge after being falsely ...

The epic 19th-century French drama The Count of Monte Cristo is a spirited adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ 1200-page novel of 1844. It’s almost three hours long yet passes in a heartbeat.