The Count of Monte Cristo is a 1975 television film produced by ITC Entertainment and based upon the 1844 novel The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. Like the novel, the film emphasizes the theme of revenge and manipulation of characters by the main character, Edmond Dantès. The film was directed by David Greene and stars Richard Chamberlain as Edmond Dantès, Kate Nelligan as Mercedes, Tony Curtis as Fernand Mondego, Louis Jourdan (who played Dantès in the 1961 film adaptation of the novel) as De Villefort, Donald Pleasence as Danglars, Trevor Howard as Abbé Faria, and Isabelle de Valvert as Haydee. ITC had previously produced a 39-part TV series based on the same source material and broadcast in 1956.
This film had a theatrical release across some European countries.
The film was remade in 1986 in Telugu as Veta.
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Plot
Edmond Dantès is wrongfully sent to prison by a trio of scheming men, one of whom is motivated to have his fiancée, Mercedes. Mentored in prison from which there is never an escape, he manages to flee the island fortress. He locates a vast treasure on another island and reinvents himself as the Count of Monte Cristo. He seeks revenge on the men who ruined him and some of the people close to them. As in the novel, Dantès loses Mercedes because of his vengeful bitterness.
