Word: cristo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Heading the bill at the University for today's revival show, is the screen version of Alexandre Dumas' adventurous novel, "The Count of Monte Cristo." For the most part adhering very closely to the Dumas script, the screen adaptation brings to the moviegoer who likes swashbuckling adventure and romance an hour's enjoyable entertainment...
Cast in the role of Edmond Dantes, later the Count of Monte Cristo, Robert Donat gives a convincing performance, and with his suave, dashing acting captures to a great degree the manner and character of Dumas' immortal hero. Fortunately for the picture, however, the love-interest as supplied by Elissa Landi is subordinated...
...Count of Monte Cristo (TIME...
...week's official Catholic "Motion Picture Guide" listed 37 suitable "Class A" pictures ("unobjectionable and suitable for public entertainment"). Listed along with not a few mediocre films were Anne of Green Gables, Babes in Toyland, Baby Take a Bow, Marie Galante, One Night of Love, The Count of Monte Cristo, Great Expectations, Judge Priest, Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, Treasure Island, What Every Woman Knows...
Ever since he went West from New Jersey in the early 1890s by way of the Columbia School of Mines, William Butler has done most of his business through intermediaries. He was first employed by the Rockefellers at the Monte Cristo gold and silver properties near Everett. When the ore deposits proved shallow, he switched to lumber. For years an ally of the mighty Weyerhaeusers, William Butler chose to stick to the comparatively secure logging business, let others do the milling and merchandising. He got the reputation of driving a hard business bargain. A lumberman named Joe Irving, wrathful...