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4 October 1964 (UK) morePlot:
A TV adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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(Credited cast)| Alan Badel | ... | Edmond Dantes / Count of Monte Cristo | |
| Natasha Parry | ... | Mercedes | |
| Anthony Newlands | ... | Morrel | |
| Michael Bilton | ... | Cocles | |
| Morris Perry | ... | Danglars | |
| Bob Raymond | ... | Penelon | |
| Philip Madoc | ... | Fernand | |
| Michael Robbins | ... | Caderousse | |
| Michael Gough | ... | DeVillefort | |
| Rosalie Crutchley | ... | Madame Danglars | |
| Anna Palk | ... | Valentine | |
| Valerie Sarruf | ... | Haydee | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Patricia English | ... | Mme. de Villefort | |
| Roy Stewart | |||
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Royal Crescent, Bath, Somerset, England, UKMOVIEmeter: 
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This adaptation, attributed to Alan Badel himself, is simply wonderful. It follows the text faithfully, and reproduces the marvelous tale exactly as Dumas wrote it. No other production of 'The Count of Monte Cristo' achieved this, before or since. In these more enlightened times, when Classics are re-created, characters are added, some removed, the time line re-arranged, and of course the dialogue 'improved', it is perhaps old fashioned to accurately translate a book to the screen, however this production recreates exactly the book's magnificent tale of adventure, love, misery, charm and revenge.
I hope that somewhere in the vaults of the BBC a recording exists so that those of you who never saw this production some day have the chance to do so. Once seen, I guarantee when you re-read the book, you will always see and hear the characters as they were portrayed in this TV masterpiece. The story, the sets, the direction, the costumes, and each and every actor's performance are superb. Very, very occasionally everything comes together, and in this production it really does. Each and every person who had a hand in making this series has my sincere respect, and admiration. You created a classic from a Classic, very few have come close to achieving that.
Originally IMDb only showed Alan Badel in the cast list. After a lot of research I managed to put together and almost complete cast list which I submitted to IMDb and which was eventually included.
If anyone out there reads this and has 'influence' with the BBC, use it to bring this production back into the public domain.