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The Mercury Theater - Orson Wells - Count of Monte Cristo The Count of Monte Cristo (1844-45) - The protagonist, Edmond DantÃs, is about to marry his sweetheart and become a captain of a vessel. He is framed by three enemies as a Napoleonic conspirator, shortly before Napoleon's dramatic return from Elba in 1815. DantÃs is imprisoned in the Chateau d'If, by the politician Villefort who is anxious to conceal his own father's machinations on behalf of Bonaparte. DantÃs remains in the French Alcatraz 14 years, before he manages to escape, in a highly dramatic manner. He flees to the island of Monter Cristo, and locates a fabulous treasure, hidden since the time of Renaissance. As the Count of Monte Cristo and with the wealth of the treasure DantÃs destroys his enemies and shows the wrong side of the bourgeois world. - He succeeded in his quest for slow revenge. His enemies suffered for their sins.