SON OF MONTE CRISTO (1940) ** Swashbuckling castle and sewage canal crawl featuring aristocrats intent on selling out their class interests against a scarred and mustachioed commoner intent on selling out his. Guess who are the good guys? Then we're regularly reminded that their greatness derives from their breeding as aristocrats. We don't get to see much of the fabled beauty of the Lichtenburg countryside so it remains a mystery why everyone is so intent on controlling it. It's more clear why Louis Hayward doesn't want Joan Bennett to marry the Frankenstein-looking guy; that's obviously because the beloved, but unrepresented, commoners would then have to answer to someone named King Gurko. I like the castle sets and George Bruce gets prophecy points for the impending sellout at Yalta, but even he couldn't have guessed that it would be the Americans and British selling all those souls.
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