The Count Of Monte Cristo: Crashing Waves Will Calm

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Crashing Waves Will Calm
The Count of Monte Cristo was a well written, old timey, kind of on the verge of corney, produced movie. The characters had unique attributes and the plot was creatively constructed in a way that made the viewer think. The movie was a classic tale about an innocent man who is falsely accused and sentenced to prison. He nearly loses his mind until he meets a quirky individual who claims to be an priest. The priest and the innocent man form a friendship and the priest educates and helps the innocent man figure why he is in the predicament that he has been place in. Once the innocent man escapes prison and finds himself joining a gang of pirates he returns to his city to plot revenge on his enemies. Once he had acquire

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