The Count of Monte Cristo (1912 film)

The Count of Monte Cristo
(aka:**Monte Cristo**)
The Count of Monte Cristo; (aka:Monte Cristo)
Directed by	Colin Campbell
Written by	Colin Campbell
Based on	novel Le comte de Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere
Produced by	William Nicholas Selig
Starring	Hobart Bosworth
Distributed by	General Film Company
Release date	October 14, 1912
Running time	3 reels
Country	USA
Language	Silent..English titles

The Count of Monte Cristo is a lost 1912 unauthorised silent film short directed by Colin Campbell and starring Hobart Bosworth. The film is a remake of the same story Selig had filmed in 1908. When this film was made Adolph Zukor had secured the rights to the 1844 novel and was about to release his 1913 version with James O'Neill who had made the role famous on stage. Zukor's attorneys ordered this film destroyed and all prints were withdrawn.^[1]^[2]

Cast[]

Hobart Bosworth - Edmond Dantes
Tom Santschi - Danglars (*as William T. Santshi)
Herbert Rawlinson - Caderouse
Eugenie Besserer - Mercedes
William Duncan
James Robert Chandler - Captain LeClerc (*as Robert Chandler)
George Hernandez - Napoleon
Nick Cogley - Morrell (*as Nicholas Cogley)
William Hutchison - M. Dantes (*as William Hutchinson)
Roy Watson - Villefort
Frank Clark - Nortier
Fred Huntley - Abbe Faria (*as Fred Huntly)
Bessie Eyton - Haidee
Lillian Hayward - Carconte
Al Ernest Garcia - Fernand (*as Al E. Garcia)
Alvin Wyckoff

References[]

^ The Count of Monte Cristo at silentera.com
^ Pictorial History of the Silent Screen c.1953 by Daniel Blum ISBN 0399506675

External links[]

Monte Cristo at IMDb.com

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[1] The Count of Monte Cristo at silentera.com

[2] Pictorial History of the Silent Screen c.1953 by Daniel Blum ISBN 0399506675

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