The Count of Monte Cristo

The Count of Monte Cristo (1954)

El Vizconde de Montecristo

Inocencio Dante, the intendant of a bank, where the director Don Miguel and their children; Marga who spends money without control, Polo who spent on gambling, have defrauded the bank with eight hundred thousand pesos, have agreed to coax "Chencho" and make it appear as responsible for the theft. In prison, "Chencho" knows Don Facundo Farias to whom he talks about his sorrows, Don Facundo happens to be the leader of the gang that stole twenty million pesos and is the only survivor who knows the place where the money is buried. After a fight, "Chencho" is put into a cell for defending Don Facundo, he in gratitude and before dying from pneumonia advises how to escape and where to find the money.later Inocencio In the style of Count of Monte Cristo flees giving a positive spin into his life. Pleasant moments alive with sparkling, funny and comical adventures of the Viscount of Montecristo.

Date of release
1954-10-07
TMDB
6.6 / 10 (12)
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Gilberto Martínez Solares

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: The Count of Monte Cristo

The Viscount of Monte Cristo is a 1954 Mexican comedy film directed by Gilberto Martínez Solares and starring Germán Valdés "Tin-Tan", Ana Bertha Lepe and Fannie Kauffman "Vitola". The film draws some of its plot from Alexandre Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo with the setting moved to contemporary Mexico. Valdés' films of the era were often distorted, comic versions of classic literature.

Read on Wikipedia · Text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Data from Wikidata.

Recommended