Alexander Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo [videorecording] / Touchstone Pictures and Spyglass Entertainment present a Birnbaum/Barber production, a Kevin Reynolds film ; producers, Roger Birnbaum, Gary Barber, Jonathan Glickman ; screenplay writer, Jay Wolpert ; director, Kevin Reynolds.
Other Titles: Count of Monte Cristo (Motion picture : 2002).
Comte de Monte-Cristo.
Publisher: Burbank, CA : Touchstone Home Entertainment : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, c2002.
ISBN: 9780788838125
0788838121
Description: 1 videodisc (131 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Subject: False imprisonment Drama.
Escapes Drama.
Treasure troves Drama.
Feature films.
Video recordings.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired. lcsh
Adventure films. lcsh
Credits: Director of photography, Andrew Dunn ; editors, Stephen Semel, Chris Womack ; music, Edward Shearmur ; costume designer, Tom Rand ; production designer, Mark Geraghty.
Performers: Jim Caviezel, Guy Pearce, Richard Harris, James Frain, Dagmara Dominczyk, Michael Wincott, Luis Guzman.
Target Audience: MPAA rating: PG-13.
Notes: English or French dialogue, Spanish subtitles.
Based on the novel by Alexander Dumas.
Special features: commentary by Kevin Reynolds; theatrical trailer; The Pen (feature on Alexandre Dumas); adapting a classic (screenwriting feature); The Napoleonic World (production design feature); The Clash Of Steel (fight choreography feature); deleted scenes; sword choreography; the final duel; layer by layer sound design; Edmonds escape.
Summary: An innocent man, Edmond Dantes, is imprisoned for years on a godforsaken island while the friend who betrayed him takes Dantes ravishing fianceĢ for himself. Dantes eventually escapes, recovers a fortune in buried pirate treasure, transforms himself into the mysterious Count of Monte Cristo, and methodically goes about exacting his revenge.
