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Dates: during 1930-1939
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R.K.O. Keith's: "The Count of Monte Cristo"--a fine adaptation of Dumas story. Robert Donat is excellent as Edmund Dantes. The scenes in and about the Chateau D'If will not slip quickly from the mind...
...productions on the current schedule of a two-year-old Hollywood company which plans to make feature pictures retail instead of wholesale. It is a first-rate translation of one of Dumas' most picturesque stories. In it, a handsome, blond British actor named Robert Donat appears as Dantes, the French officer who, unjustly imprisoned in a dungeon, escapes to find buried treasure on a desert island and returns to outsmart his persecutors. Elissa Landi is Mercedes who, although forced into an unwelcome marriage when her lover goes to jail, remains sufficiently faithful, after her husband dies, to marry...
...does a welcome justice to Dumas. In spite of the whispered query of the garrulous lady who came in during the prison scene, sat down behind your reviewer and with a sigh asked if this picture had anything to do with Dane's Inforno, the work of newcomer Robert Donat as Edmund Dante was refreshingly outstanding. Elissa Landi is as beautiful as ever though not very much in evidence...
...prosecution, obviously afraid that the jury would be moved by Dr. Gorgulov's outbursts, at least to the point of judging him insane, concentrated on attempts to picture him as a former Bolshevik terrorist. "He is the Rasputin of the Russian refugees." summed up Chief Prosecutor Donat Guigue. "He is a wild beast...
...Senator of Canada, received from it large quantities of stock, worth some $30,000,000. Investigation had proved that Beauharnois had spent nearly $1,000,000 on the campaign funds of both Liberal and Conservative candidates who might be friendly to the project. Names involved: Senators Andrew Haydon and Donat Raymond...