The Wife Of Monte Cristo

As this picture has it, rather than retiring to his island estates following his revenge on his persecutors, the famed count of the Alexandre Dumas romance revisits Paris, where--his true identity concealed--he avenges the sufferings of the poor in the postrevolution period of the early 1800s. Loder is the smooth, crafty, Robespierre-like prefect of police who tries to catch the crusading count, Kosleck. To throw Loder off the scent, Aubert takes up the sword. In masculine attire (encased in tights, her shapely figure betrays her gender), the countess proves an able substitute for her husband. Loder is fine as the wry and witty villain bent on entrapment, and Kosle...