Alexandre Dumas Collection - 4-DVD Boxset ( Black Magic / The Count of Monte Cristo / The Man in the Iron Mask / The Corsican Brothers )

Alexandre Dumas Collection - 4-DVD Boxset (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Black Magic / The Count of Monte Cristo / The Man in the Iron Mask / The Corsican Brothers
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Oscar Academy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
402 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1934-1949 and produced in:
Italy ( Italy, Greece )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Gregory Ratoff
Orson Welles
Rowland V. Lee
James Whale

Written By:
Alexandre Dumas

Charles Bennett
Richard Schayer
Philip Dunne
Dan Totheroh
Rowland V. Lee
Harvey F. Thew
George Bruce
Howard Estabrook

Actors:
Orson Welles ..... Joseph Balsamo aka Count Cagliostro
Nancy Guild ..... Marie Antoinette / Lorenza
Akim Tamiroff ..... Gitano
Frank Latimore ..... Gilbert de Rezel
Valentina Cortese ..... Zoraida
Margot Grahame ..... Mme. du Barry
Stephen Bekassy ..... Viscount de Montagne
Berry Kroeger ..... Alexandre Dumas, Sr.
Gregory Gaye ..... Chambord / Monk
Raymond Burr ..... Alexandre Dumas, Jr.
Charles Goldner ..... Dr. Franz Anton Mesmer
Lee Kresel ..... King Louis XVI / Innkeeper
Robert Atkins ..... King Louis XV
Nicholas Bruce ..... De Remy
Franco Corsaro ..... Chico
Annielo Mele ..... Joseph Balsamo - as a child
Ronald Adam ..... Court President
Bruce Belfrage ..... Crown Prosecutor
Alexander Danaroff ..... Dr. Duval / Baron von Minden
Robert Donat ..... Edmond Dantes
Elissa Landi ..... Mercedes
Louis Calhern ..... De Villefort Jr.
Sidney Blackmer ..... Mondego
Raymond Walburn ..... Danglars
O.P. Heggie ..... Abbe Faria
Irene Hervey ..... Valentine
Georgia Caine ..... Mme. De Rosas
Walter Walker ..... Morrel
Lawrence Grant ..... De Villefort Sr.
Luis Alberni ..... Jacopo
Douglas Walton ..... Albert
Juliette Compton ..... Clothilde
Clarence Wilson ..... Fouquet
Eleanor Phelps ..... Haydee
Ferdinand Munier ..... Louis XVIII
Holmes Herbert ..... Judge
Paul Irving ..... Napoleon
Mitchell Lewis ..... Vampa
Louis Hayward ..... Louis XIV / Philippe of Gascony
Joan Bennett ..... Maria Theresa
Warren William ..... D'Artagnan
Joseph Schildkraut ..... Fouquet
Alan Hale ..... Porthos
Walter Kingsford ..... Colbert
Miles Mander ..... Aramis
Bert Roach ..... Athos
Marion Martin ..... Mlle. de la Valliere
Montagu Love ..... Spanish Ambassador
Doris Kenyon ..... Queen Anne
Albert Dekker ..... Louis XIII
Nigel De Brulier ..... Cardinal Richelieu
William Royle ..... Commandant of Bastille
Boyd Irwin ..... Lord High Constable of France
Howard Brooks ..... Cardinal
Reginald Barlow ..... Jean Paul
Lane Chandler ..... Captain of Fouquet's Guards
Wyndham Standing ..... Doctor
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. ..... Mario Franchi / Lucien Franchi
Ruth Warrick ..... Countess Isabelle Gravini
Akim Tamiroff ..... Baron Colonna
J. Carrol Naish ..... Lorenzo
H.B. Warner ..... Dr. Enrico Paoli
John Emery ..... Tomasso
Henry Wilcoxon ..... Count Victor Franchi
Gloria Holden ..... Countess Franchi
Walter Kingsford ..... Monsieur Dupre
Nana Bryant ..... Madame Dupre
Pedro de Cordoba ..... Count Gravini
Veda Ann Borg ..... Maria
William Farnum ..... Priest
Sarah Padden ..... Nurse
Manart Kippen ..... Martelli
Ruth Robinson ..... Angela
Richard Alexander ..... Castle Guard
Wilson Benge ..... The Baron's Butler

Synopsis:

Black Magic: Novelist Alexander Dumas tells his writer-son of Joseph Balsamo, a gypsy boy in southern France who was embittered because his parents were wrongfully hanged and he himself was tortured by the order of Viscount de Montagne. Years later, the man, a carnival charlatan, attracts the attention of Dr. Mesmer, a pioneer in the study of hypnotism. Balsamo rejects Mesmer's plea that he use his power for healing and, instead, decides to use it to seek wealth and fame. He changes his name to Count Cagliostro, and achieves fame throughout Europe by mixing hypnotism with mysticism and showmanship... The Count of Monte Cristo: Edmond Dantes is imprisoned in the Chateau d'If without trial, for carrying a message from Napoleon in exile on Elba. After being told that he died in prison, his fiancé Mercedes is forced to marry his rival Count Mondego. Twenty years later, Dantes escapes with the help of the Abbe Faria, who leaves him the treasure of Monte Cristo. Dantes, now called the Count of Monte Cristo, plans his revenge on the three who framed him. The Man in the Iron Mask: D'Artagnan and the musketeers are the only ones who know of the existence of a twin brother, and Fouquet uses his influence to keep everyone silenced. The main story was changed by portraying Louis XIV as selfish, cruel, and incompetent, and Philippe the kind-hearted brother who is raised by D'Artagnan and the musketeers and does not even know that he has an identical twin. When the truth is discovered, Louis XIV has Philippe imprisoned with the iron mask placed on him, hoping that Philippe's beard will grow inside the mask and eventually strangle him. The Corsican Broth: After their parents are killed, co-joined twin boys are separated, with one raised as a gentleman in Paris and the other in the mountains becoming a bandit.

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