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Dantes, a sailor is falsely accused of treason by his best friend Fernand, who wants Dantes' girlfriend Mercedes for himself. Dantes is imprisoned on the island prison of Chateau d'If for 13 years.
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00:00:02The End
00:00:55How did it happen?
00:00:57Two days out from Naples, very suddenly, monsieur.
00:00:59Terrible, terrible. Poor Captain Leclerc. He was a fine, brave captain.
00:01:02There was no doctor aboard, and he had a sudden, raging fever.
00:01:05We did everything we could. I assure you, Monsieur Morel, I myself never left this captain.
00:01:09Then you assumed command, Danglard.
00:01:11Not I, monsieur. Dantes. But without consulting any of us, a moment, only a moment after poor Captain Leclerc was
00:01:17buried at sea, Dantes took command of this ship.
00:01:19As first mate, it was his right to assume command.
00:01:22I do not wish to deny that entirely, monsieur. I only wish to point out, in my capacity as purser,
00:01:27that Dantes was the cause of us losing a day and a half off the island of Elba,
00:01:32instead of proceeding directly to Marseille.
00:01:36Were you in need of repairs? No, monsieur.
00:01:40As you can see, monsieur, the ship is in excellent shape, the cargo intact.
00:01:45Danglard, you have your accounts here.
00:01:48No, monsieur. I will fetch them from my cabin.
00:01:52The rest of you may go. Edmund, why did you put in at Elba?
00:01:58It was at Captain Leclerc's orders, monsieur. Before he died, he entrusted me with a package
00:02:02to be delivered to Napoleon's chief marshal on the island of Elba.
00:02:05What was in this package? I have no idea, monsieur.
00:02:07My orders were to go ashore, deliver the package, and receive a letter to be delivered to Paris as soon
00:02:11as possible.
00:02:12You have this letter? Yes, but that was all that took place, I assure you.
00:02:15I went ashore, saw the marshal, gave him the package, and I was given this letter.
00:02:19I don't want to see it. Captain Leclerc was a bonaparte sympathizer.
00:02:23As the monarchy is again in power, discretion would seem to be the order of the day.
00:02:28I shall put that letter away safely. Deliver it in Paris and forget about it.
00:02:32Say nothing. Not even to Mercedes. No, monsieur.
00:02:38Who, by the way, is waiting feverishly on the pier, so you have my permission to go ashore, Captain Dantes.
00:02:45Captain? You don't mean that I found a new captain for my ship, Captain Edmund Dantes.
00:02:51But I hadn't hoped that you would consider me so soon.
00:02:53Why not? You've been with me ever since you were a skinny little cabin boy I used to call Sinbad
00:02:58the sailor.
00:03:02Now, now why are you looking so downcast?
00:03:05Not downcast. It's only that so much good fortune all at once, you see.
00:03:09Tomorrow Mercedes and I are to be married.
00:03:11And now, you've made it a doubly happy day for us, monsieur.
00:03:14Then you can make it a happy day for me, by bringing Mercedes and your friends to the inn,
00:03:19so that we may have a chance to drink your health before the ceremony.
00:03:22You have my permission to go ashore, Captain. And four days' leave with my blessing.
00:03:31Captain Dantes, it is settled then.
00:03:35Quite settled.
00:03:36Quite settled.
00:03:37Then priority of age and experience no longer carry any weight on any of your ships, monsieur.
00:03:43I will say no more.
00:03:44I think you've already said quite enough, Danglar.
00:03:46I should like to see your account of cargo, sir.
00:04:00Siemens has never passed so wearily and slowly for me.
00:04:03Mercedes.
00:04:05And the day after tomorrow, we're going to Paris.
00:04:08Paris! Oh, Ebony!
00:04:09I'm ready to buy you a new gown, a lace handkerchief, a fan, my darling.
00:04:12When can we afford it?
00:04:13Well, a captain's wife must look the part, mustn't she?
00:04:16And besides, I've saved three months' pay.
00:04:18Come now.
00:04:19Are there two happier people than you and I in all of France?
00:04:22There cannot be.
00:04:24But first, I have so much to tell you about tomorrow.
00:04:26We have to get the special license today because I've made all arrangements.
00:04:30We're to meet the mayor of Marseille at the Hotel de Ville at two o'clock.
00:04:33And we must not be late, as he has a very severe face, rather like a long deal.
00:04:37And Marguerite has consented to be bridesmaid and is in a million pieces because she says she has nothing to
00:04:42wear.
00:04:42Why, Edmund, I've made such a gown for myself.
00:04:45I can't wait for you to see it.
00:04:48Mondego!
00:04:49So, you're back, Dantes.
00:04:53Fernand, we have such tremendous news.
00:04:56Edmund has just been made captain of the Fairhunt.
00:05:01Dear, dear Fernand, shake hands with Edmund and wish him well.
00:05:06Wish him well.
00:05:08And good fortune to you also, Mondego.
00:05:10In Spain, it isn't the custom for a fisherman like me to shake hands with the captain of a free
00:05:15master.
00:05:15In France, it is the custom for cousins to shake hands and you and I are cousins.
00:05:19Then I shall wait until tomorrow.
00:05:22Your cousins must be friends, Fernand, as you and I are.
00:05:26Are you and I friends?
00:05:27And be with us tomorrow, Mondego.
00:05:28To see Mercedes married.
00:05:31To see Mercedes happy.
00:05:33If a blind man could see that now.
00:05:50Take snuff, Mondego?
00:05:52No, thanks.
00:05:55Your fruit, it clears the mind wonderfully.
00:05:59For thinking.
00:06:01Can I see you a moment ago talking with my new captain and his pretty Catalan girl?
00:06:06My cousin, Mercedes.
00:06:08Oh, yes.
00:06:10Your cousin.
00:06:12You were looking at her as though she might have been your betrothed.
00:06:15She might have been as correct, Monsieur.
00:06:18And now I am thinking that you and I might have the same thought.
00:06:21About what?
00:06:22Edmund Dantes.
00:06:24It's just possible that you and I might also have the same wish, eh, friend?
00:06:27If I had a wish, it would be that Edmund Dantes had never existed.
00:06:31To the devil with him.
00:06:33For the deputy king's prosecutor, it's nearer.
00:06:43I don't understand here.
00:06:46I have some information about Dantes that might interest the deputy very much indeed.
00:06:50It concerns a letter given to Dantes by the emperor's marshal on the island of Elba.
00:06:59Now I am thinking, thinking very clearly indeed.
00:07:05Suppose the deputy were to hear of this letter.
00:07:08Just supposing a note were to be pushed under the door of the deputy's house tonight.
00:07:15What then, Mondego, eh?
00:07:17What then?
00:07:35Oh, Monsieur Morel's such a party. You're too kind to us.
00:07:39Then I beg leave to kiss the bride.
00:07:42Edmund, she's the loveliest bride that ever a sailor truly deserves.
00:07:45Indeed, she is.
00:07:47A toast!
00:07:50Madame Edmund Dantes!
00:07:56Ah, forgive me. Have I said something wrong?
00:07:59Only that it is considered bad luck, my soul.
00:08:01Bad luck?
00:08:04Call any girl by her married name before the ceremony.
00:08:06Forgive me, mademoiselle, but do not fear.
00:08:08How could bad luck ever come to Edmund Dantes?
00:08:11Thank you, Jean-Glau.
00:08:12It never shall. Come then, a toast.
00:08:14A toast!
00:08:15Mademoiselle Mercedes and her captain, whom I love and respect as much as if I were his own father.
00:08:21Edmund and Mercedes.
00:08:23Edmund and Mercedes!
00:08:24Oh, but in the name of the law!
00:08:25We are looking for a man by the name of Edmund Dantes.
00:08:30I am Edmund Dantes.
00:08:32Edmund Dantes, I arrest you in the name of the law.
00:08:35Edmund!
00:08:35For what reason?
00:08:36It is not for me to say.
00:08:37I am Armand Morel. Captain Dantes is in my employ. He's about to be married.
00:08:41He's to be brought before Monsieur de Villefort at once.
00:08:43Edmund!
00:08:44Don't fear, my darling. We'll all be cleared up in a while. I shall probably be back within a half
00:08:48hour.
00:08:48No, I must go with you.
00:08:49No, no, you must stay with Monsieur Morel.
00:08:51Darling, if I should be detained a little, I'll get a message to you and we could be married tomorrow
00:08:55just as well.
00:08:56Oh, Edmund.
00:08:56Oh, come now. No tears. Remember, I love you, my darling. Can't you wait one more afternoon for me?
00:09:07You know that I would wait for you until the end of my life.
00:09:10I know that.
00:09:12Let me go.
00:09:17Edmund!
00:09:25Do you have enemies, Monsieur Dantes?
00:09:27No, I'm not important enough to have enemies, Monsieur.
00:09:30Early this morning, this note was discovered. It had been pushed under the door. Read it.
00:09:36The deputy prosecutor is hereby advised by a friend to the throne that Edmund Dantes, mate of the Pharon, which
00:09:42arrived this morning from Naples,
00:09:43has in his possession a letter he received on the island of Elba from the Marshal of the Emperor Napoleon
00:09:49and addressed to Paris, very likely to a member of the Bonapartist Party,
00:09:53and a deed of treason and much danger to His Majesty King Louis.
00:09:57Monsieur de Villefort, do you know anything about the letter that is mentioned?
00:10:00Well, yes, that part is true. I do have the letter, but I know nothing of its contents. I was
00:10:04only acting under the orders of my captain and
00:10:06only as a messenger.
00:10:07Let me have this letter.
00:10:10You see, Monsieur, it's sealed and marked private and urgent.
00:10:17It is addressed from Monsieur Noitier in Paris.
00:10:1918 plus, Vendôme.
00:10:21Do you know who he is?
00:10:22No, Monsieur.
00:10:23You told anybody else about this letter?
00:10:25No, only Monsieur Morel, the ship's owner. I had to explain why we put in at Elba.
00:10:29Does he know to whom it is addressed?
00:10:31I alone know that, Monsieur.
00:10:34Could this Monsieur Morel have informed against you?
00:10:37Never, Monsieur.
00:10:39Someone knows Dantes. Who?
00:10:41I have no idea, Monsieur, but if it's true that the letter is treasonable, and had I been aware of
00:10:45that, I would have thought it to you myself. I swear it.
00:10:49I believe you, Dantes.
00:10:50Then I'm to go, Monsieur. I was at my patrol at least when I was arrested.
00:10:55This letter has nothing incriminating against you.
00:10:59It states that you know nothing.
00:11:01Then I can go free.
00:11:05Will you wait in the other room till I have read this letter more fully?
00:11:08Thank you, Monsieur.
00:11:09You give me great hope, and I'm most grateful.
00:11:11I'll take that.
00:11:22I'll take that.
00:11:26Really?
00:11:28How much longer must I wait in that cold room?
00:11:31We should be late for the party.
00:11:33Close the door.
00:11:34Yes, oh, do come.
00:11:35Maman will chide me about wanting to marry a man
00:11:37who is always late.
00:11:40Oh, just, sir, why are you so grim-faced?
00:11:43Are you about to order the execution
00:11:44of that poor young sailor?
00:11:46No, perhaps my own.
00:11:48Oh, just, sir, don't joke about such things.
00:11:50René, that young sailor is the innocent accessory
00:11:54to a Bonaparte's plot,
00:11:56this time to aid in the escape of the emperor from Elba.
00:11:59It's all contained in this letter
00:12:00which he had in his possession.
00:12:02Somebody knew he had such a letter and informed on him.
00:12:05Just there, that is wonderful.
00:12:07Why, you can take the credit for uncovering such a plot.
00:12:10It might even mean a dazzling promotion.
00:12:12René, René, read the letter.
00:12:14See to whom it is addressed.
00:12:18Oh, just, sir.
00:12:19Now you understand.
00:12:20It is addressed to Monsieur Noitier in Paris,
00:12:24to my father.
00:12:26Again, my father,
00:12:28and his damnable association with the Bonaparte's party.
00:12:32It contains instructions to him.
00:12:34Yes.
00:12:35He is directly concerned in the part to aid the emperor's escape.
00:12:38It also contains the information I need
00:12:40to let this sailor go.
00:12:43It states that he knows nothing.
00:12:46In order to free this Dante's,
00:12:48I must give this letter to the chief prosecutor.
00:12:51Oh, but you cannot.
00:12:51What?
00:12:52I must.
00:12:53I am in duty bound.
00:12:54To your conscience.
00:12:56Just discharge my office to let him go free.
00:12:58And destroy yourself,
00:12:59because that is exactly what you will do.
00:13:02Oh, just, uh...
00:13:04Just, uh, you...
00:13:06You have changed your politics and your name.
00:13:08You are a deputy in the service of the king.
00:13:10You are on your way to becoming chief prosecutor.
00:13:12Would you admit that your father is Nortier,
00:13:15head of the Bonaparte's party in Paris?
00:13:17Would you pull the sky down around you
00:13:18because of, well, some sailor that no one knows or cares about?
00:13:21Renée, this boy is not involved.
00:13:24Yes, but...
00:13:25Well, if no one else were to know of the letter.
00:13:27He knows, and someone on his ship.
00:13:30Well, is he the only one who knows to whom it is addressed?
00:13:33I believe so, yes.
00:13:37Just, uh...
00:13:38You have told me many times that
00:13:41prisoners, political prisoners, are very quickly forgotten.
00:13:44Are held for years on the very slightest evidence.
00:13:46And who would question an order signed by the deputy de Villefort
00:13:49when everyone knows that he is the most honorable man in Marseille?
00:13:51Renée, I cannot.
00:13:53My career has not been brilliant, but it has been just.
00:13:56But you will have no career if this letter is exposed.
00:14:00Oh, just that.
00:14:05And I must suffer, too.
00:14:07I must lose you.
00:14:09Renée.
00:14:10Oh, just that.
00:14:11My family are staunch loyalists.
00:14:13It would be useless.
00:14:16Would you ruin both of our hopes at the same time?
00:14:26Wait outside.
00:14:27No.
00:14:29I want to be very sure that there is no letter.
00:14:32And no young sailor to come between us.
00:14:59You will be held pending further investigation.
00:15:02Monsieur.
00:15:03Take him away.
00:15:04But the letter, you said the letter clearly vindicates me.
00:15:08What letter?
00:15:10What have you done with the letter?
00:15:12There was no letter.
00:15:13But what have you done with it?
00:15:15Why have you burned it?
00:15:16Take him away.
00:15:18Am I not to be tried?
00:15:19Take him to the cell.
00:15:20Well, this afternoon I will sign a warrant for his removal to the Chateau d'If.
00:15:24That is all.
00:15:24For God's sake, you're not going to put me in the Chateau d'If.
00:15:27I'm innocent.
00:15:27You know that.
00:15:28For pity's sake, let me appear before the prosecutor.
00:15:32You know there was a letter.
00:15:33Why do you pretend there wasn't?
00:15:34Let go of me.
00:15:35He has to hear me.
00:15:37Somebody has to.
00:15:38Let go of me.
00:15:40Let go.
00:15:56I want to see the present governor.
00:15:58Aha, that's what they all say, Greg.
00:16:01But I want to see him now, tonight.
00:16:03They'll be lucky to see the governor this side of kingdom come, lad.
00:16:08They all want to see the governor for the first year or so.
00:16:13But I am innocent.
00:16:14The charges against me are false.
00:16:16I want to see the governor.
00:16:19Ah!
00:16:20There's no one who will hear me.
00:16:23Dear God, help me.
00:16:26Help me.
00:16:28Help me.
00:16:29Help me.
00:16:30The petition for the release of Edmond Dantes is denied.
00:16:34But Monsieur de Villefort, the boy did wrong.
00:16:37Only in bringing a letter.
00:16:39There was no letter.
00:16:40Yes, Monsieur, to someone in Paris.
00:16:41We found no such letter.
00:16:42Well, the boy is to be held without trial.
00:16:45The case is out of my hands.
00:16:47It is disposed of.
00:16:48But Monsieur de Villefort.
00:16:49That is all I can tell you.
00:17:04Deposition, my dear.
00:17:05The second appeal is denied.
00:17:08There's still no reason.
00:17:09The same as last year.
00:17:11Again, simply that Edmond Dantes was a bonapartist agent.
00:17:17Where is he?
00:17:18They will not say.
00:17:20Is he alive?
00:17:22Oh, Monsieur, tell me that he is alive.
00:17:24I cannot tell you.
00:17:26But I do not know.
00:17:34Listen, I will give you a hundred crowns.
00:17:36All I have, take it.
00:17:37All I ask is you take a message to a girl in the castle, our message.
00:17:40Next time you go to Marseille.
00:17:43Taking a message from a prisoner?
00:17:46Suppose I was found out.
00:17:48I'd lose my good job and my pension.
00:17:51Take a message indeed.
00:18:07Good safe voyage, Monsieur Morel.
00:18:10A fine cargo.
00:18:11I'm glad to hear it, Captain Bangalore.
00:18:16Do you think there's any truth in the rumors of Dante's death?
00:18:20I've heard rumors of his death for five years.
00:18:24I will never believe them.
00:18:33Oh, Chester, I am so proud to be married to the Chief Prosecutor.
00:18:54Are you going to eat, 27?
00:18:57Well, starve to death.
00:19:00The Abbey tried that.
00:19:01It's one way to get out of here.
00:19:08?
00:19:08?
00:19:10?
00:19:20Eee..
00:19:21?
00:19:36?
00:20:18Who are you?
00:20:22Edmund Dantes.
00:20:25You?
00:20:27The Abbey Faria.
00:20:30Are you jailers around?
00:20:35They don't come out.
00:20:37Sometimes.
00:20:39Days.
00:20:45Human face.
00:20:48So long for me too, my son.
00:20:52Even though I had hoped I might have penetrated the outer water to the sea.
00:21:00You can swim so far, it's a mile of more to land.
00:21:05Desperation lends us strength.
00:21:07Does it not?
00:21:11It took me three years to make my tools, this knife, this chisel.
00:21:19Some days I was overjoyed if I had penetrated forward an inch or two.
00:21:24You.
00:21:25You work.
00:21:27I pray to die.
00:21:31The time.
00:21:32I resolved to starve myself to death.
00:21:36How long have you been here, my son?
00:21:38Since Danglar wanted to be captain of my ship.
00:21:45Since Mondego married my batarist.
00:21:50Since de Vilfort burned the latter.
00:21:56I too was conspired against.
00:22:00You say that without bitterness.
00:22:03I have learned.
00:22:05I know that all human wisdom is contained in two words.
00:22:11Wait and hope.
00:22:13Hope.
00:22:14Hope.
00:22:15Hope.
00:22:16For us.
00:22:17There is always hope.
00:22:19Even in this dark, bottomless pit.
00:22:23If the spirit within you lives.
00:22:26Can you teach me to hope again?
00:22:33Are you willing to hope again?
00:22:44I have learned here are my treasures.
00:22:54Two shirts I have managed to hide.
00:23:00I have written on them much.
00:23:04You made a pen and ink made from soot mixed with the cup of wine.
00:23:12They sent me on Sundays a special dispensation from the governor.
00:23:18What language is that?
00:23:20Italian.
00:23:22It is a work on the monarchy of Italy.
00:23:25And on this trip German.
00:23:28And some Latin.
00:23:29All I could remember from the metamorphoses of Ovid.
00:23:33And some Greek also.
00:23:37It was the only way how I could keep from going mad along.
00:23:42Can you teach me?
00:23:47I think you would be a bright pigeon.
00:23:51Teach.
00:23:51Teach.
00:23:52Certainly.
00:23:53Certainly.
00:23:54But there is time.
00:23:55Teach.
00:23:58You and I, Edmund, have nothing in the world but time.
00:24:04Hello, Phillie.
00:24:13Music.
00:24:20Something.
00:24:23We can break them down.
00:24:29There is time for 10 years in FotosAUR.
00:24:33No, no, no, but you do not understand.
00:24:38Try to grasp the idea.
00:24:42A square plus B square equals C square.
00:24:45The letters are symbols.
00:24:48Pro bonum.
00:24:52Contra, contra...
00:24:53Bellum.
00:24:56Once.
00:24:57Must be Sunday.
00:25:09Gaspard!
00:25:13Is it the Avery?
00:25:15Dead?
00:25:16Not yet, but he won't see this night out.
00:25:20Water.
00:25:21No use wasting water on him.
00:25:24He'll have plenty of it before the night's out.
00:25:26Aye, that he will.
00:25:47Good friend.
00:25:49Can you hear me?
00:25:52It's Edmund.
00:25:55Edmund.
00:25:57Are you in much, much pain?
00:26:02I'm near.
00:26:04Near the end.
00:26:05No, no.
00:26:06Don't say that.
00:26:08Don't leave me.
00:26:09The last year has only been bearable because of you.
00:26:13Good friend.
00:26:14Listen.
00:26:15I must speak to you.
00:26:18No, no.
00:26:18Save your strength.
00:26:19I will bring you some water for myself.
00:26:21No, no time.
00:26:22Go to the island of Monte Cristo.
00:26:25You know it.
00:26:26Yes.
00:26:27Tiny rock off of Corsica.
00:26:29I passed it many times.
00:26:30A fortune awaits you there.
00:26:33All the treasures of the great Spada family.
00:26:36Hidden generations ago.
00:26:39From the Borgias never reclaimed.
00:26:41Count Spada, last of the line, my friend, died in this prison.
00:26:48He willed it all to me in secret.
00:26:52It is all yours now, my son.
00:26:56All yours.
00:26:57I will it to you.
00:27:04Memorize this, Edmund.
00:27:07Eastern end of island, small creek sayings.
00:27:11Eastern end of island, small creek.
00:27:15Third cave from north.
00:27:17Third cave from the north.
00:27:21Do not forget.
00:27:23Monte Cristo.
00:27:25Be faithful.
00:27:27Wait.
00:27:29Hope.
00:27:32My friend.
00:27:47I just as I thought, the old man's gone right enough.
00:27:52Hit his heart.
00:27:53Once one of them saved death.
00:27:56And escaped.
00:27:57Was he caught?
00:27:59Aye.
00:28:00By the shot.
00:28:06We'll leave him here.
00:28:13We'll come back when the tide is in.
00:28:16The last one was dashed on the rocks.
00:28:19Let's go.
00:28:21Let's go.
00:28:21Let's go.
00:28:43Let's go.
00:28:44Let's go.
00:28:48Let's go.
00:28:53Let's go.
00:29:12Let's go.
00:29:17Let's go.
00:29:19Let's go.
00:29:20Let's go.
00:29:37Let's go, Leader.
00:29:39One, two, three.
00:30:23Theta, we're up.
00:30:31What ship are you off, friend?
00:30:33We picked you up an hour ago.
00:30:38Did you hear that friend that means a prisoner has escaped from the Chateau d'Its.
00:30:45That's all right my friend we have no wish to put in at Marseille.
00:30:49We are running contraband so you are among robes.
00:30:52How was your name friend?
00:30:55Sinbadger.
00:30:57Sinbadger?
00:31:00That's a good enough name for us.
00:31:02I'm the Captain Jacopo and this is my first mate Beto.
00:31:08What month is this?
00:31:10April.
00:31:11The year.
00:31:12Why the year is 1833.
00:31:17Eighteen years.
00:31:24Where are you bound?
00:31:25Corsica.
00:31:27In a day or two we'll put you to work.
00:31:29Turn your passage.
00:31:32You will put me ashore.
00:31:34At a small isle named Monte Cristo.
00:31:38I promise you both.
00:31:40A life you never dreamed was possible.
00:31:45You will live, will be him?
00:31:49Will you come through?
00:32:04Something happened.
00:32:07Oh my God.
00:32:10That's that, you make the soul.
00:32:10You look good, your child.
00:32:12Oh my God.
00:32:13I hope they are coming through.
00:32:13What happened to you?
00:32:14Let's go.
00:32:49Dear God, who has heard the prayers of Edmund Dantes shut away for 18 years, hear my thanks.
00:33:02And now, you who destroyed Edmund Dantes, hear my vow.
00:33:11Now, you took away my world and turned everything I love into dust.
00:33:21Now, I will make dust of your world.
00:33:38Hello, ships merchandise, barrels of wine for Marseille, bill of lady.
00:33:59Argo.
00:34:00Are you, Armand Morel, the ship's owner?
00:34:06I was the ship's owner.
00:34:09I, oh, Monsieur le Curie, forgive me, the wine of regret, one might say.
00:34:17Forgive me, I, are you from the monastery of St. Agnes?
00:34:22I'm the Abbey Bizoni.
00:34:23I just happened to be in Marseille, and I was told that I could find you here.
00:34:28Oh, yes, Father.
00:34:29I lodge here in a small room, many reverses, you see.
00:34:35I lost my ships.
00:34:36I lost many things, among them my self-respect.
00:34:43Once, long ago, I made a promise to a friend I knew once of yours, in the Chateau d'If.
00:34:51Do you remember the name, Edmund Dantes?
00:34:54Ed?
00:34:55You seen him, Father?
00:34:57Is he alive?
00:34:58No.
00:34:59He's dead.
00:35:00Well, I say fear as much.
00:35:03He said you were the only man who might still believe in his innocence.
00:35:06I never doubted it.
00:35:08I made three appeals to the V-form.
00:35:11All were denied.
00:35:13He mentioned another man.
00:35:15A man in your employ.
00:35:16Oh, Dangler.
00:35:19He was the one that informed on Edmund.
00:35:22Oh, yes, I'm sure of it now.
00:35:24Yes, Father.
00:35:25He left my employ many years ago.
00:35:29He was cashier in the French commissariat in Lisbon.
00:35:33He made a fortune.
00:35:35And of Ilpour, the deputy prosecutor,
00:35:39who knew Edmund with innocence,
00:35:42who sent him to the Chateau d'If.
00:35:44He, too, has flourished like the green bay tree.
00:35:49He's now chief magistrate in Paris.
00:35:51Can you believe that?
00:35:54The rewards of the wicked are curious in this dark world.
00:36:00Curious, Father.
00:36:04I don't understand.
00:36:06One thought haunted Dantas continually.
00:36:08There was a girl.
00:36:09Oh, Mercedes.
00:36:11That was her name.
00:36:12I've asked in the village, but no one seems to know.
00:36:14Mercedes married her cousin,
00:36:17a Catalan named Mondego.
00:36:20Mondego.
00:36:21He loved Mercedes.
00:36:23He played his part well in Edmund's denunciation.
00:36:28And Mercedes?
00:36:28She was convinced Edmund was dead.
00:36:32It was only natural that after a while she...
00:36:34After how long a while?
00:36:36Oh, she waited for him.
00:36:38After how long?
00:36:40Till it seemed utterly hopeless.
00:36:42How long?
00:36:45Eighteen months.
00:36:50Where are they now?
00:36:51In Paris, I believe.
00:36:53He's in the army.
00:36:54He served in Greece in the war with Turkey.
00:36:59I understand.
00:37:01He's now a general.
00:37:03A general.
00:37:04Oh, Monsieur le Cure.
00:37:06I'm glad Edmund died not knowing those who betrayed him
00:37:10had grown rich and powerful.
00:37:12Better not to live to my age.
00:37:16As he greed and dishonor walk the earth
00:37:18while others...
00:37:19Help.
00:37:42You were the only friend he had.
00:37:44And now, I promise you, I shall search to the ends of the earth for his enemies.
00:38:08A million francs.
00:38:15Dear friend, great hope sin fed the sail.
00:38:25Edmund?
00:38:27Edmund?
00:38:30Edmund!
00:38:44I want information regarding a French officer named Mondego.
00:38:49The war is served under Ali Pasha. Ali Pasha's wife, daughter, by the Turks.
00:38:53But Mondego gives from Ali Pasha much money.
00:38:55That's all I know.
00:38:57All?
00:38:58There's a man in Constantinople, he can tell you much. A slave trader.
00:39:10Why? Why should you want this slave?
00:39:13Oh, great Count of Monte Cristo, for this price I can give you a far more beautiful slave.
00:39:20What is your name, child?
00:39:22Hades, my lord.
00:39:24She is Greek?
00:39:25Of royal blood, too, on account.
00:39:27I want this slave of all your slaves.
00:39:29Give me the certificate of her birth and the deed of her sale to you.
00:39:32And I want to know everything about her.
00:39:41Your son de Villefort has traveled far. He is now chief magistrate in Paris.
00:39:47Yes, my son de Villefort is a coward, monsieur.
00:39:53So, I am kept here, far away from France, to be out of harm's way.
00:40:00Why, monsieur Neuartier?
00:40:02Oh, for reasons that my son has kept hidden, even from his beloved wife.
00:40:09Such as what has happened to my friend, General Deponier.
00:40:15And why Bougarde is now living in Switzerland, monsieur. Why? Why?
00:40:25These are the banking houses with which we do business in Paris, monsieur Lecombe.
00:40:29Lafayette, Rouveau, Danglard, Boccoe.
00:40:32Danglard. I want to do business with that bank.
00:40:35Baron Danglard.
00:40:36Baron.
00:40:37He is known as somewhat of a speculator.
00:40:40Good. I like speculators. Give me a letter of credit to him.
00:40:44Yes, monsieur Lecombe. In what amount of credit?
00:40:48Unlimited.
00:40:49Unlimited? Thank you, monsieur Lecombe.
00:40:51Yes.
00:40:58Thank you, monsieur.
00:41:01As I was saying, Riveaufort is not loath to make a bargain.
00:41:07After General Deponier died,
00:41:11I gave de Villefort a secret letter, and in return, he arranged a safe escape for me across the border
00:41:20here to Switzerland.
00:41:21And monsieur de Villefort has this letter?
00:41:23Of course he has it. His life depends on it.
00:41:32I insist you accept my promissory note.
00:41:34My father is General Mondego in command of the 1st Royal Regiment.
00:41:38He is not accustomed to having his word doubted.
00:41:42Allow me to loan you the 15,000 francs.
00:41:47I am a Count of Montecristo.
00:41:50Very kind of you, monsieur.
00:41:52Are you in Rome for the carnival?
00:41:54Yes. And you, Monsieur Mondego?
00:41:56Yes. But my name is Albert.
00:41:58Oh, thank you very much.
00:41:59My father will send me a check again tomorrow, I assure you.
00:42:02You're a very fortunate young man, Albert.
00:42:04I suppose I am.
00:42:06Shall I play red this time?
00:42:08Black.
00:42:09Perhaps your luck is about to change.
00:42:24Oh, my dear Count, everyone in Paris is at the opera tonight.
00:42:29Ah, I see Madame de Villefort in the Benoit over there.
00:42:34Oh, yes, and she's waving to the Marquis de Kent.
00:42:38And he's ignoring her.
00:42:40Oh, she will make de Villefort an ambassador yet, if she can get the Marquis to fly into her little
00:42:45butterfly net that she's always waving.
00:42:49Renée is the most ambitious woman in Paris.
00:42:52Oh, so my mother says.
00:42:53I dare say you will meet the de Villeforts at our ball next week.
00:42:57That is, if you've decided to accept my father's invitation.
00:43:00Yes, I have decided.
00:43:03The curtain is about to rise.
00:43:12Marquis de Kent, Minister of State.
00:43:19Madame de Villefort.
00:43:21Oh, thank you, Madame de Villefort.
00:43:23Oh, thank you, Madame de Villefort.
00:43:23Yes, sir.
00:43:24And where is that lovely...
00:43:25Oh, she's with Monsieur Lamont.
00:43:28The Minister of Justice.
00:43:30Two Ministers at one ball.
00:43:31You are extravagant.
00:43:33Oh, Mr. Villefort.
00:43:33Yes.
00:43:34Minister.
00:43:34Madame.
00:43:36Oh, my goodness.
00:43:38If I did not love you as a sister, I should want to slap you.
00:43:41The Marquis de Kent, the Minister of Justice, and now the cool of the season, the one man that all
00:43:46of Paris is dying to be.
00:43:47And who is that, Renée?
00:43:48Why, the Count of Monte Cristo.
00:43:50Yes, I understand that he is coming.
00:43:52How can you be so casual about such a victory?
00:43:57Tell me, what is he like?
00:44:00We have not yet met the Count.
00:44:01He is Albert's friend.
00:44:03Albert.
00:44:05Albert.
00:44:05Albert, come here at once.
00:44:08Now, how is it that you come to have the good graces of the Count of Monte Cristo when every
00:44:13hostess in Paris is dying to catch a glimpse of it?
00:44:15The Count is my friend, Renée, and he expressed the desire to meet my mother and father.
00:44:19Indeed.
00:44:20And where is he now?
00:44:21He will be here at precisely ten o'clock.
00:44:23The Count is never late.
00:44:24And will he appear in a puff of red smoke or born on a litter by beautiful slaves, of which
00:44:29I hear he has a dozen?
00:44:30Patience, Madame de Villefort, it is almost ten.
00:44:33And I am quite sure that it is you that has been spreading these bizarre tales about him.
00:44:37That he is the grandson of one of the Medicis, that he has an emerald the size of an ostrich
00:44:42egg, the treasure of Xanadu, and a fortune estimated at over 50 million prices.
00:44:46Who has 50 million?
00:44:48Oh, Baron Dengla, you are never very far away when money is mentioned.
00:44:52Who?
00:44:52When he was speaking of the Count of Monte Cristo.
00:44:54Never heard of him.
00:44:55Oh, you are getting big.
00:44:57Little pig eyes are just popping out of his head.
00:44:59What an obnoxious man the Baron is.
00:45:01Mercedes, why do you suffer?
00:45:03Like your husband, he is a friend of Vernon.
00:45:05Oh, but we are different.
00:45:10Ah.
00:45:12Ten o'clock, and he is not here.
00:45:15Albert, you have made him up.
00:45:17The Count of Monte Cristo does not exist.
00:45:20The Count of Monte Cristo.
00:45:58Oh, god love.
00:46:00Mother!
00:46:01That presents my good friend, the Count of Monte Cristo.
00:46:10Are you ill?
00:46:12No, it's nothing.
00:46:13And again, Madame de Vyfalle.
00:46:15Oh, my dear Count, we've begun to think that you were a genie out of the Arabian night.
00:46:20But now that I have you at last face to face,
00:46:22I shall not allow you out of my sight until you promise to accept my next invitation.
00:46:26And your promise to call upon me if I can be of service.
00:46:30I assure you I shall take every advantage of your kind, Dufford.
00:46:33A glass of champagne, Monsieur Le Corne.
00:46:34Thank you, no.
00:46:36Will you be in Paris for long, Monsieur?
00:46:38For as long as my business warrants, Madame.
00:46:41And what exactly is your business in Paris, Count?
00:46:45Everything, Madame.
00:46:47There's a good answer for you, eh, Rene?
00:46:49And you see, he does exist, Rene.
00:46:51I am very grateful to you, Count, for all your kindnesses to my son.
00:46:54Your son does you great credit, General.
00:46:56I am always deeply touched by a great devotion between a father and a son.
00:47:01Father, what is it?
00:47:03Excuse me in the heat of this room.
00:47:05Allow me, Madame.
00:47:09Oh, what a fascinating man, the Countess.
00:47:13What strange eyes, like Geiss.
00:47:22I'm not accustomed to the heat of Paris.
00:47:25I come from Marseille.
00:47:28Do you know Marseille, Monsieur?
00:47:30I knew it once, Madame.
00:47:32Twenty years ago.
00:47:34Twenty years?
00:47:36And I dare say, like me, you have forgotten it entirely.
00:47:39No.
00:47:39On the contrary, Madame.
00:47:41I remember everything about it.
00:47:44It's sad to remember places long ago.
00:47:47There was a little Catalan village nearby.
00:47:50Yes, I recall it.
00:47:52It was beautiful.
00:47:53In a charming, natural way.
00:47:56Yes, it was.
00:47:58I hear that it has quite changed through the years.
00:48:01One would scarcely recognize it now.
00:48:05Everything changes, Monsieur, does it not?
00:48:08Everything, Madame.
00:48:11So it is impossible to unlock the door of the past?
00:48:14Perhaps not.
00:48:15If one has the key.
00:48:20The caviar, Monsieur.
00:48:23I do not care for anything, Madame.
00:48:25Please.
00:48:26Some caviar.
00:48:27Thank you, nothing.
00:48:33You have lived in the East, Monsieur.
00:48:35Have you not?
00:48:40I have heard that there is a custom in Arabia that those who take food together under the same roof
00:48:46become lifelong friends and must do each other no harm.
00:48:49But we are not in Arabia, Madame.
00:48:52And lifelong friends in France are as rare as the custom you speak of.
00:48:57But we are friends, are we not?
00:48:59My dear Count, I must leave, but I wanted to give you my card in case there is anything I
00:49:04can do for you.
00:49:05If you could be at my house at precisely four tomorrow afternoon.
00:49:09Delightly, naturally.
00:49:10Honored.
00:49:11Good night, Monsieur.
00:49:12Good night, Madame.
00:49:14You haven't answered my question.
00:49:16I asked if we were friends.
00:49:18What else should we be, Madame?
00:49:27Now the Minister is speaking to us.
00:49:30Even the Marquis de Cain is spawning over it.
00:49:32Who?
00:49:33At the Count of Monte Cristo.
00:49:35Don't you ever see anything?
00:49:36Yes.
00:49:37You see too much.
00:49:38Well, if I didn't, you might still be deputy prosecutor in Marseille.
00:49:43Sometimes I wish I was.
00:49:49Minister, I'm going to deprive you of the guest of honor, Marseille.
00:49:54Count, tell me, is it true that you went to hear my husband lecture the jury at the palais?
00:49:59Twice, Madame.
00:50:01Oh, how very flattering.
00:50:03I wish that more men of your importance would take such an interest in him.
00:50:06He's most persuasive with words.
00:50:08He should be a diplomat, perhaps an ambassador.
00:50:11Yes.
00:50:12Have I said something to displease you?
00:50:14Well, you have touched on a tender spot.
00:50:15I'm deeply sorry.
00:50:16Surely you know.
00:50:17But then I would not have said it.
00:50:18Ah.
00:50:20Well, my husband had been mentioned for ambassador to Spain, but in the last few months the matter has been
00:50:24dropped.
00:50:25Why, Madame?
00:50:26Well, it would appear that the Marquis de Cain is opposed to him.
00:50:29We are only invited to the very large sworeys.
00:50:33Oh, I have done everything.
00:50:34I am in despair.
00:50:35I would do anything to gain the confidence of the Marquis.
00:50:40Nothing could be simpler, Madame.
00:50:42Oh, but how?
00:50:43The Marquis is giving a dinner in two weeks' time.
00:50:45Perhaps it could be arranged for you to sit on his letter.
00:50:48Oh, if only it could be arranged, I should be indebted to you forever.
00:50:51You need not be in my debt, Madame, if in return you will do one slight favor for me.
00:50:55Oh, if only I could.
00:50:57Your husband has in his possession a letter, a confession of a friend of mine.
00:51:01I see.
00:51:02And now your friend is anxious to get the letter back.
00:51:06If possible.
00:51:07How, uh, how should I recognize the letter?
00:51:10It is in a blue envelope and sealed with the letter B in red.
00:51:15And if I could get the letter for you?
00:51:17If it is in my hands by five o'clock tomorrow afternoon, the invitation to the Marquis will be in
00:51:22yours.
00:51:25I have always longed to see the inside of your house, Count.
00:51:28Good night, Madame.
00:51:29Good night, my dear Count.
00:51:53Oh, my dear Count, I have had a letter from the Baron Rothschild asking me to open credit on my
00:51:58bank for the Count of Monte Cristo for an unlimited sum.
00:52:01But I am delighted.
00:52:02Sit down, Baron.
00:52:06Charming.
00:52:08Charming.
00:52:09I have heard of your young Greek slave.
00:52:11Thank you, Hedy.
00:52:12You were saying, Baron?
00:52:14Only that my bank would be ready at any time to honor any note of yours for any sum.
00:52:18Thank you, Baron.
00:52:19And you take snuff.
00:52:20Oh, thank you.
00:52:21Here is the mine, wonderfully.
00:52:24Now, Baron, I have some deeds I'd like you to take for safekeeping.
00:52:28Yes, monsieur.
00:52:33The Transvaal Trust Company of Amsterdam, I am not familiar with it.
00:52:36Then you are not a speculator.
00:52:37How wise.
00:52:39Sometimes I have missed great opportunities.
00:52:42Knowledge is merely knowing in advance.
00:52:43For example, those are deeds to some lands that I hold in South Africa for 10 million francs.
00:52:48I expect them to treble their value within the month.
00:52:51So soon?
00:52:52As soon as announcement is made of the Transvaal Railway.
00:52:55Excellency, a lady is waiting.
00:52:57And will you excuse me, Baron?
00:52:59Call Baron Dangrois Carrot, will you please?
00:53:01Forgive me, Baron, but you must keep what we've just said regarding the railway in strictest confidence.
00:53:06Oh, my dear Count, we are both men of discretion.
00:53:08I am honored by your confidence.
00:53:10Monsieur.
00:53:10Madame de Villefort.
00:53:12I have an invitation for you from the Marquis de Caen.
00:53:15And I have for you, a letter.
00:53:35I have an invitation for the Marquis de Caen for a week from Thursday.
00:53:41Oh!
00:53:41Oh!
00:53:42When did you last go to this chest?
00:53:44To the chest?
00:53:45Oh, I don't know.
00:53:46I suppose last night you put away my jewels.
00:53:47There is a letter missing.
00:53:49A letter?
00:53:50Where is it?
00:53:50Oh, why should I know anything about a letter?
00:53:53You have the only other key to this chest.
00:53:55When did you put the letter you took from it?
00:53:57I know nothing of a letter, Justin.
00:54:00Rene, I am accused of the assassination of General Deputy.
00:54:04I have to appear before the Minister at seven this evening.
00:54:07That is impossible.
00:54:09A file that I thought was destroyed has been sent to the Minister anonymously.
00:54:13The facts in that file are black against me.
00:54:15This letter is my only hope.
00:54:17I kept it for that very reason.
00:54:18Well, what is in the letter?
00:54:20A confession by the actual assassin, a man named Bogardé.
00:54:23I arranged for his escape to Switzerland.
00:54:26Rene, Bogardé is now dead.
00:54:28And without this letter, I am dead, too.
00:54:31Where is it?
00:54:33What have you done with it?
00:54:34To whom did you give it?
00:54:36I gave it to the Count of Monte Cristo.
00:54:39Monte Cristo for what possible reason?
00:54:41Well, because he could help us with the Marquis de Cain.
00:54:43He was the only one who could get us to him.
00:54:45He made a bargain with me.
00:54:46Don't you see that?
00:54:47You have made a bargain for my life.
00:54:49Oh, I didn't know.
00:54:50Justin, I swear, before heaven, he never told me what was in that letter.
00:54:53I did it for you.
00:54:54Don't you see that?
00:54:57I hope you go to your grave remembering what you have done for me today.
00:55:02I'll get that for you.
00:55:04Justin, let me come with you.
00:55:05Justin, no, no.
00:55:06I love you.
00:55:08I love you.
00:55:09I love you.
00:55:10I love you.
00:55:11I love you.
00:55:12I love you.
00:55:13I love you.
00:55:14I see the gentleman begs again to see you.
00:55:18What gentleman?
00:55:19Monsieur de Vilcourt.
00:55:20He's been waiting nearly two hours.
00:55:21Ah, yes, I quite forgot.
00:55:23Tell him to come in.
00:55:26Ah, Monsieur de Vilcourt.
00:55:28What can I do for you?
00:55:29How much do you want for it?
00:55:31For what?
00:55:32The letter.
00:55:33Five million?
00:55:34Ten million?
00:55:35Ten million?
00:55:35The letter.
00:55:36Is it so valuable to me?
00:55:38I am already late at the minister's house.
00:55:40I must have it.
00:55:41How much you want?
00:55:42My home, my estates, everything I possess, come.
00:55:46I don't know for whom you're working some enemy of mine, but I swear that I'm innocent of
00:55:52this crime.
00:55:52Yes, I believe you.
00:55:55Then you'll let me.
00:55:57This letter clearly absolves you.
00:55:59Then you'll let me have it.
00:56:01I knew this poor H. Bogadé.
00:56:02I cared for him in Switzerland until he died.
00:56:04He paid many times over for his crime.
00:56:07May his soul rest now.
00:56:09What are you doing?
00:56:10In fact, you have borne the letter.
00:56:15Letter?
00:56:16There was no letter.
00:56:18What have you done?
00:56:20What you did, twenty years ago, in Marseille.
00:56:30Edmund Dantes.
00:56:45Oh, what is it?
00:56:46The founder of Mara Criscoll is here, Baron.
00:56:47Tell him today is not very convenient.
00:56:49Very well.
00:56:50Ah, my dear Baron.
00:56:53Please.
00:56:54I'm delighted to see you, but I have some other things.
00:56:57Ed, if you don't mind, would you cash this note for me, please?
00:57:05But this is for 15 million francs.
00:57:06But you'd owe me any amount at any time.
00:57:08But this is an enormous sum.
00:57:09Therefore, it will require your signature before it can be presented to your cashier.
00:57:14I'm afraid you will have to give me some time.
00:57:17Why?
00:57:18Well, as it happens, the bank could not meet such a large amount all at once.
00:57:21Why not?
00:57:22There have been already certain large withdrawals.
00:57:26Well, that has nothing to do with me.
00:57:27If you are not willing to give me your signature,
00:57:29I shall have to go and do your partners.
00:57:31Perhaps you will do so.
00:57:32No, it is not that I am unwilling.
00:57:34It is, well, for certain reasons.
00:57:35For what reasons?
00:57:39My dear Count, I must ask you.
00:57:42I beg of you.
00:57:43Give me until Friday.
00:57:45Impossible.
00:57:46I need the money now.
00:57:47Until Wednesday, then.
00:57:48That is just two days.
00:57:49Tomorrow, then.
00:57:50I will raise the money somehow.
00:57:51Oh, you must agree to that.
00:57:52Now, Baron.
00:57:53What is the real reason for this prevarication?
00:57:58My dear Count, I must ask your confidence.
00:58:03There must not be words said.
00:58:04Well, I am waiting for your explanation.
00:58:06The fact is, I have invested in the Transvaal Trust Company of Amsterdam to the extent of 10 million francs.
00:58:11But what have your personal speculations to do with me?
00:58:14Well, because of the haste, I had to borrow the money.
00:58:17I see.
00:58:19From your depositors, I presume.
00:58:20Well, yes, but I have tended to repay it all by Friday.
00:58:22How by Friday?
00:58:23Well, surely you have heard.
00:58:24By Friday, there is to be an announcement that the Transvaal Rail will be started.
00:58:27The deeds will treble their value.
00:58:28How do you know that?
00:58:29I had a letter from the company announced to them.
00:58:31See for yourself.
00:58:31Oh, but that letter is dated nearly a month ago.
00:58:33Yes, yes, but surely you must have received the same information.
00:58:35Yes, but the plans have since been changed.
00:58:38Since been changed?
00:58:38The railway is not to build, and the company is defunct.
00:58:45But you have been misinformed.
00:58:47How could I be misinformed?
00:58:50I own the company.
00:58:52You?
00:58:53Yes.
00:58:54But the name of the president is Van Ramb.
00:58:56He was only acting for me.
00:59:00And you yourself have left a fortune.
00:59:02I would gladly lose double the amount for this moment, Dangla.
00:59:08You talk as if you had done it on purpose to ruin me.
00:59:12And I have.
00:59:14Haven't I?
00:59:16Or are you still as clever at juggling accounts as when you were Monsieur Morel's purser?
00:59:29Who are you?
00:59:34Look hard and remember, Dangla.
00:59:40Oh, he went to his grave.
00:59:44He has come back.
00:59:47You are...
00:59:51Dante's.
00:59:52Our account is closed.
01:00:03And that is a sign, Baron.
01:00:06Baron?
01:00:06Stop that man.
01:00:07The account has already left the bank, Baron.
01:00:09I've missed something once.
01:00:10He has a danger of age.
01:00:10Baron!
01:00:11He's going to part the spy.
01:00:12Baron, the emperor died on St. Helena nearly 15 years ago.
01:00:17An anonymous note.
01:00:18An anonymous note.
01:00:20To the deputy of Grosjeck.
01:00:27Shall I read or play to you, my lord?
01:00:30Not now.
01:00:31How then may I serve you?
01:00:34Soon you will serve me in a most important capacity, Haydy.
01:00:36You know that.
01:00:37Yes, my lord.
01:00:38But is that all I can do?
01:00:40Can I not be of some comfort to you also?
01:00:42You are of great comfort to me, my child.
01:00:45Because I am so grateful.
01:00:47You need not be.
01:00:48But you are sad, my lord.
01:00:51Is it because of what we have to do?
01:00:53Yes.
01:00:54And I was thinking of a girl that I knew once.
01:00:58Long ago.
01:00:59Was she like me?
01:01:00Not like you.
01:01:02Did she die?
01:01:04No.
01:01:08I am the one who died.
01:01:25The guests are here.
01:01:30Is that the man?
01:01:32Yes, my lord.
01:01:34Are you certain?
01:01:36I am certain, my lord.
01:01:40Good evening.
01:01:41Good evening.
01:01:42Madame.
01:01:43Monsieur.
01:01:44General.
01:01:45Monsieur.
01:01:45Good evening, Albert.
01:01:46General has served, Your Excellency.
01:01:47Please.
01:01:48Father.
01:01:51I must speak to you for a moment.
01:01:54There's a reason we're invited this evening.
01:01:56We're part of this terrible plan of yours.
01:01:58I know it.
01:01:58You are imagining things, madame.
01:02:00Edmund, don't speak as though we were strangers.
01:02:02I beg you.
01:02:03I've lived in dread these last few weeks.
01:02:06I alone have seen the terrible pattern of what you're doing.
01:02:09I ask you, is it not already enough?
01:02:12Shall we join the others, madame?
01:02:13I implore you, if there is any remembrance in your heart to stop now.
01:02:19I ask it because once you loved me, Edmund.
01:02:24The man you speak of is dead.
01:02:30My dear?
01:02:31Madame was just admiring the Persian military.
01:02:35Well, father, are you impressed?
01:02:37Indeed, dear boy.
01:02:38You were not boasting about the Count's great talent for variety.
01:02:43I am not familiar with this wine.
01:02:45It is a Rioja, General, from Aragon.
01:02:47Hmm.
01:02:47It's excellent.
01:02:49It amuses me very much to bring together things from the past and the present.
01:02:53An old wine, a young lamb.
01:02:55Oh, that's very good, eh, Mercedes?
01:02:57And things from great distances apart.
01:03:00For instance, these two fish.
01:03:01A stirret from the Volga.
01:03:02A lamprey from the Aegean.
01:03:04Marvellous.
01:03:05And there, do you realise that these two fish are almost impossible to obtain in France?
01:03:09Oh, you seem to know a great deal about fish, General.
01:03:11I began life as a fisherman, Count.
01:03:13Indeed.
01:03:14Father's proud of the fact that every fisherman becomes one of the most honoured generals in France.
01:03:18Now, right, how wonderful it is to obtain what one wants, to overcome all obstacles.
01:03:24It is not to your taste, madame.
01:03:28I'm not very hungry.
01:03:29It is too rich.
01:03:30I myself am accustomed to extremely plain food.
01:03:32Oh, why does that count?
01:03:34One might say it was a test of endurance.
01:03:37Bring some grapes for madame.
01:03:39Father, after a while one learns never to ask my friend to count a point-blank question.
01:03:44So I see.
01:03:49Oh, but you must, my dear.
01:03:52I've not seen grapes like these since I was in Smyrna.
01:03:56Why, yes.
01:03:58You served in the Grecian-Turkish War, did you not, General?
01:04:01And received a legion of honour on his return.
01:04:03It was many years ago, Your Excellency.
01:04:04I have heard it said that you served a considerable time under the Greek leader, Ali Pasha.
01:04:09These grapes most assuredly are from Smyrna.
01:04:12You are quite remarkable, Count.
01:04:13The Ali Pasha thought so highly of my father
01:04:15that he rewarded him with 500,000 francs before he died.
01:04:19I understand that the Pasha died together with his wife and family, his daughter.
01:04:24He was killed by the Turks.
01:04:25We were at Yanina, I remember.
01:04:27And I'm sure the Count is not interested in the campaign that happened so long ago.
01:04:30Though, on the contrary, I find it most interesting.
01:04:34We were besieged in the fort at Yanina.
01:04:37The Pasha gave me his ring to take to the Sultan of Turkey
01:04:40to ask for a safe passage across the border before his wife and daughter.
01:04:45Well, I was only a young captain at the time.
01:04:48The Sultan took the ring, gave me an audience, but refused the amnesty.
01:04:54When I returned to the fort, the Pasha had been killed by the Turks,
01:04:59together with his wife and young daughter.
01:05:02It was all rather tragic.
01:05:04Yes.
01:05:05But my father had risked his life in trying to aid their escape.
01:05:08How interesting.
01:05:09It is strange that you should mention this,
01:05:11because I believe I have something especially pertinent to serve you, General.
01:05:14Oh?
01:05:15One might say it is piece de resistance of this dinner.
01:05:17And it is only for you.
01:05:20Well.
01:05:21Serve the General.
01:05:23Oh, how exciting.
01:05:24What is in it?
01:05:27Why, it is a ring.
01:05:29By coincidence.
01:05:30It is the very ring the Alipasha gave to your father.
01:05:34It cannot be.
01:05:36Surely you recognize the crest.
01:05:38It's the one that you in turn gave to the Sultan.
01:05:40And now this lovely girl returns it to you.
01:05:44Do you not recognize her too?
01:05:47But then, she was only nine when you saw her last.
01:05:56Tell him who you are.
01:06:02I am Hayden.
01:06:04Daughter of Ali Tebel and Pasha of Janina.
01:06:08It's impossible.
01:06:09This girl is an imposter.
01:06:11The girl was killed.
01:06:12The documents, please.
01:06:15Here is the certificate of her birth.
01:06:17And I have here the certificate pertaining to the sale of her person to a merchant named El Cobir.
01:06:24Read it, Elbeer.
01:06:35I, El Cobir, slave merchant to his highness, the Sultan of Turkey, acknowledge having received from the Count of Monte
01:06:41Cristo an emerald valued at 800,000 francs for the purchase of the slave Haydee, daughter of the Ali Tebelin.
01:06:50Go on.
01:06:52She having been sold to me seven years ago by a French captain in the service of the Pasha by
01:06:57the name of...
01:06:58What name?
01:07:00What name?
01:07:01Hernant Mondego.
01:07:02What?
01:07:02Do you recognize this man?
01:07:04Yes, my lord.
01:07:06He is the man that led us from the port into the Turkish camp.
01:07:09It's alive!
01:07:09He stood by while my father was murdered and then told my mother and me to the Turks for 500
01:07:13,000 francs.
01:07:14Elbeer, Mercedes.
01:07:16We will leave at once.
01:07:19There is something I must explain.
01:07:23It was as she says, but it was forced upon me.
01:07:26No!
01:07:27You know my lies, father!
01:07:28It is enough, isn't it?
01:07:29It's all plainly here and proven.
01:07:31So what else could you tell me but another falsehood?
01:07:34You betrayed them to the Turks and then you came home and accepted the Legion of Honor with a lie.
01:07:42My father, the greatest general in France!
01:07:45How could you wear this?
01:07:47How could you?
01:07:50How could you have grown to be what I thought you were?
01:07:53From this filth!
01:07:56Elbeer, I ask your forgiveness.
01:08:04Forgiveness.
01:08:06Until the day I die, I shall be sorry I was ever born with your name.
01:08:25Let's see, Lisa.
01:08:29Mercedes.
01:08:36Is your hate bottomless?
01:08:39Are you punishing my husband and my son because I failed you?
01:08:43Is that your reason?
01:08:46If I was a guilty person, surely it was I who promised to wait for you and did not.
01:08:52You should have punished me alone.
01:08:56Edmund.
01:08:59Mrs. Edmund.
01:09:05Yes, I see.
01:09:10How stupid of me not to have realized.
01:09:18And now the tribunal.
01:09:21Tomorrow these papers will grow to General Le Maire at army headquarters.
01:09:26You will inform on me.
01:09:30As I once helped Dong Lao.
01:09:33Inform on you.
01:09:35God.
01:09:41Now you know.
01:10:01I'll call you girl.
01:10:03I'm not so happy.
01:10:03That's all for me is.
01:10:04I'm not happy.
01:10:06I'm not happy.
01:10:07I'm not happy.
01:10:10I'm happy.
01:10:13Yes.
01:10:27How deeply do you hate me, Mercedes?
01:10:37I don't hate you.
01:10:40No, I...
01:10:43I understand now the terrible thing that was done to you, far more than I ever knew.
01:10:53But I have grieved for you for 20 years, and now it's over, perhaps just as it should be.
01:11:11I will go away from here.
01:11:16We will go back to Marseille.
01:11:18I am leaving France tomorrow.
01:11:20We shall never meet again, Mercedes.
01:11:24Where will you go?
01:11:25I don't know.
01:11:26The book is closed.
01:11:29It is over now.
01:11:32It is as if my life, not theirs, were over.
01:11:39Now, Mercedes, in the years to come, will you try to think that Edmund died and never came back?
01:11:50I will try.
01:11:53And remember that he loved you with us.
01:12:01I shall pray that you find the thing you lost.
01:12:06The power to love and be loved in return.
01:12:12Bye, Edmund.
01:12:30The wind's from the north.
01:12:32It's good to feel that the ship's deck under your feet again.
01:12:34Now, Benno.
01:12:35Aye, Jacobo.
01:12:45Excellency.
01:12:46We are ready to set sail with the morning tide.
01:12:48Very well.
01:13:02Who is there?
01:13:05Lady.
01:13:06Yes, my lord.
01:13:07Why are you here?
01:13:08You were to have sailed to Greece.
01:13:10My lord.
01:13:11You need not call me that now.
01:13:13I have given you your freedom.
01:13:15What is freedom, my lord?
01:13:19Everything.
01:13:20Is it?
01:13:21You will understand that when you are as old as I am.
01:13:24I do not want it.
01:13:26It is worth nothing to me if I am to be sent away from you.
01:13:32You have served me well.
01:13:34But now it is over.
01:13:37Is that all you wanted of me?
01:13:39Nothing else?
01:13:40Oh, my lord.
01:13:42My dear lord, do not send me away.
01:13:45I do not want to die and I shall die without you.
01:13:49My lord, I love you more than my heart could ever say.
01:13:54Lady.
01:13:55My child.
01:13:56I know you do not love me in this way.
01:13:58But I have loved no one for years.
01:14:00But if I can be beside you, that is of little consequence.
01:14:03Oh, I beg you, do not leave me here.
01:14:06I should be without life.
01:14:08Without reason for living.
01:14:09But I thought it was I who had no reason for living.
01:14:13You, my lord.
01:14:14I have lived only for destruction.
01:14:16I used you for destruction.
01:14:18And now, you come to me with love.
01:14:23With my heart and my life, they have always been yours.
01:14:28Oh, child.
01:14:29They will always be.
01:14:31Lady and come!
01:14:33And I, I had thought that now there was nothing for me.
01:14:37No life, only death.
01:14:39No love, only hate.
01:14:42I thought this was the prison from which, this time, there would be no escape.
01:14:51I have forgotten that all human wisdom is contained in the two words,
01:15:00weight and hope.
01:15:40I have forgotten that all human wisdom is contained in the two words,
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