Hi Everyone, Spotted this recently: Alexander Dumas wrote that someone in the crowd at Louis XVI's beheading shouted out "Jacques DeMolay, thou art avenged!" ...
Hello everyone, As a long time Dumas fan (ever since I was able - and allowed! - to peruse my Dad's books) I was really happy to find this group just over 2...
I LOVED the Depardieu version - includes most of the characters, has all the disguises etc. It was sunnier than I expected from the novel, and it had a...
The Adaptationwith Gerard was put on in the States by Bravo, a cable station, they lso released it it on DVD. I bought the DVD's and frequently torture my...
I bought the Depardieu version when I was last in France, but it won't play on Region 1 DVD players. :/ I've had to watch it sitting in front of my computer....
Hi Charlotte and everyone, Thank you for the feedback: now I really want to buy this DVD set. I have found one, and it hopefully will arrive soon. Charlotte,...
You brought back memories..... I remember the old Donat version from when I was a child. Very moody film, it captured the spirit of the story so well. Thanks...
... Same here :) I hope to make this novels Web page one day (I even registered a domain, www.tcomc.com :) but it takes time... ... book. Yeah, although they...
One version of Monte Cristo that is considered by many to be the best one ever made is Robert Vernay's one, released in two parts of 90 minutes each in 1943 : ...
March 15, 2008 Greetings, all. Count me in! I'm a huge fan of both the book and all versions of it on film that I have seen. But the big question I'd like to...
Hello J.D. and everyone, For me it's one of my all time favorites (besides The Three Musketeers series, Memoirs of a Physician, and Chevalier de Maison Rouge)....
FYI...I just checked and the Depardieu version is available on Netflix. The Count of Monte Cristo is my "if you were stuck on a desert island and could only...
Mine is an unabridged Dutch translation, though I also have a (no too bad) abridged version in English. My personal favorite is the Easton Press unabridged...
All of the above, plus what everyone else has said too. I can remember when I was first reading it - just gulping it down, and thinking vaguely that Dumas was...
Thank you, mariemichon, I found a brand new one on eBay a little while earlier, at about $17.00 plus very reasonable postage. eBay is an excellent source for...
Just remember that the Depardieu version is in French, and while it is a lovely language and sounds great it is fast and makes for fast reading of the...
Hi fg and everyone, I could be wrong, but this sounds like Le Chevalier de Maison Rouge. (I'd have to look it up to be sure) Back to lurking :) Christine ... ...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/03/29/bodumas129.xml Completed from Dumas' outline. Quoting: Entitled Le salut de l'Empire, and...
What work is it? The title, I mean. Charlotte ... From: David E. Cote To: clubdumas@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 8:33 AM Subject: [Club...
That was a wonderful review, thanks for posting it. http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Join/Default.aspx?source=EML_WL_ GreaterGood [Non-text portions of this...
if Mlle de Montpensier is a figure in The Women's War? I'm reading The Last Cavalier now, and -- although I bought The Women's War -- I don't want to stop to...
I just got back from Moscow and picked up a DVD of the Russian mini-series produced a few years ago for TV. It's something like 10 hours long and pretty good...
Hi all, I've just been re-reading Three Musketeers for the umpteenth time as our Book Group has chosen it as the next book (with a small amount of cajoling on...
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