Grandpa had a revenge hobby and the grandson inherited the family business.
The grandson of Edmond Dantes was cheated out of his fortune and falsely imprisoned, only to escape and wreak vengeance on his betrayers by assuming the guise of the Count of Monte Cristo. Just like grandpa, the younger Dantes is framed by a trio of connivers and shipped off to Devil's Island. Escaping with a fellow convict, political radical Bombelles, Dantes adopts the bearded guise of an elderly man in order to destroy his enemies and reclaim his birthright.
Costume
The elderly disguise is gloriously unconvincing and nobody notices.
Acting
George Macready's villainy hits that perfect sneer-to-sideburn ratio.
Director
Henry Levin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Louis Hayward played the original Edmond Dantes in 1934's 'The Count of Monte Cristo,' making this the first actor to reprise the role as his own descendant twelve years later.
Devil's Island as a prison setting was Hollywood shorthand for 'inescapable doom' throughout the 1940s, despite France having closed the penal colony in 1938.
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