Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Legendary filmmaker Ridley Scott & Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac Mc Carthy (No Country for Old Men) have joined forces in The Counsellor starring Michael Fassbender Penelope Cruz Cameron Diaz Javier Bardem & Brad Pitt Mc Carthy
- making his screenwriting debut
- & Scott interweave the author&s characteristic wit & dark humour with a nightmarish scenario in which a respected lawyer&s one-time dalliance with an illegal business deal spirals out of control

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Legendary filmmaker Ridley Scott & Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac Mc Carthy (No Country for Old Men) have joined forces in The Counsellor starring Michael Fassbender Penelope Cruz Cameron Diaz Javier Bardem & Brad Pitt Mc Carthy
- making his screenwriting debut
- & Scott interweave the author&s characteristic wit & dark humour with a nightmarish scenario in which a respected lawyer&s one-time dalliance with an illegal business deal spirals out of control

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Join Hans in a fantasy world & experience a unique adventure full of surprises & challenges Get hooked on an immersive tale where every decision counts & every clue is a piece to solve the puzzle & get the treasure Unravel the sordid secrets of the castle meet colourful characters & remember horror always lurks beneath the surface The Count Lucanor Features Exploration Walk the Tenebre Castle & place candles on the ground to light up your path Conversation Talk to NPCs to get important clues & unravel the mystery of the Count Lucanor Choices Your actions change the course of story with five different endings & several subplots Stealth Hide under tables & behind curtains to go undetected Puzzles Use the items you found wisely in-order to progress Skill Avoid traps & enemies in the castle by anticipating them ...

Join Hans in a fantasy world & experience a unique adventure full of surprises & challenges Get hooked on an immersive tale where every decision counts & every clue is a piece to solve the puzzle & get the treasure Unravel the sordid secrets of the castle meet colorful characters & remember horror always lurks beneath the surface With a retro halfway-between-8-&-16- bit style & inspired by classic games like The Legend of Zelda Yume Nikki Silent Hill or Dark Souls among others The Count Lucanor is an amazing mystery & horror adventure set in a fairytale world The game features important choices alternative endings secrets & different ways to solve puzzles Features Exploration Walk the Tenebre Castle & place candles on the ground to light up your path Conversation Talk to NPCs to get important clues to uncover the hidden history of the Count Lucanor Stealth Hide under tables & behind curtains to go undetected Puzzles Use the items you found wisely in order to progress Skill Avoid traps & enemies in the castle by anticipating them ...

With an Introduction & Notes by Keith Wren University of Kent at Canterbury The story of Edmund Dantes self-styled Count of Monte Cristo is told with consummate skill The victim of a miscarriage of justice Dantes is fired by a desire for retribution & empowered by a stroke of providence In his campaign of vengeance he becomes an anonymous agent of fate The sensational narrative of intrigue betrayal escape & triumphant revenge moves at a cracking pace Dumas' novel presents a powerful conflict between good & evil embodied in an epic saga of rich diversity that is complicated by the hero's ultimate discomfort with the hubristic implication of his own actions Our edition is based on the most popular & enduring translation first published by Chapman & Hall in 1846 The name of the translator was never revealed ...

On the day of his wedding Edmond Dantes master mariner is arrested in Marseille on trumped-up charges & spirited away to the cellars of the Chateau d' If an impregnable sea fortress in which he is imprisoned indefinitely 1240 pages Dumas Alexandre ...

A beautiful new clothbound edition of Alexandre Dumas& classic novel of wrongful imprisonment adventure & revenge Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of the Chateau d& If There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo & becomes determined not only to escape but to unearth the treasure & use it to plot the destruction of the three men responsible for his incarceration A huge popular success when it was first serialized in the 1840s Dumas was inspired by a real-life case of wrongful imprisonment when writing his epic tale of suffering & retribution ...

Alexandre Dumas' epic tale of suffering & revenge inspired by a real-life case of wrongful imprisonment the Penguin Classics edition of The Count of Monte Cristo is translated with an introduction by Robin Buss Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed Edmond Dantes spends fourteen bitter years imprisoned in the grim fortress of If There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo & becomes determined not only to escape but also to unearth the treasure & use it to plot the destruction of the three men responsive for his incarceration No longer the naive sailor who disappeared into the dungeon all those years ago he reinvents himself as the charming mysterious & powerful Count of Monte Cristo A huge popular success when it was first serialized in the 1840s The Count of Monte Cristo has been a fixture of western literature ever since & the subject of countless film & TV adaptations Robin Buss' lively translation is complete & unabridged & remains faithful to the style of Dumas' original This edition also

Includes:: an introduction explanatory notes a new chronology & updated suggestions for further reading Alexandre Dumas (1802-70) was a pioneer of Romantic theatre in France but in 1839 he turned his attention to writing the novels for which he is best known today pften using collaborators such as Auguste Maquet to suggest plots or historical background His most famous works include The Three Musketeers (1844) The Count of Monte Cristo (1844-5) & The Man in the Iron Mask (1847) If you enjoyed The Count of Monte Cristo you might enjoy Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped also available in Penguin Classics' What makes The Count Of Monte Cristo such a superior story is that revenge is not the only emotion driving the plot it is an almost perfect story
- also in the mix are love friendship jealousy faith education snobbery & class' Sunday Express' The greatest of escape stories' Guardian


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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play The Count of Monte Cristo is Alexandre Dumas& classic story of an innocent man wrongly but deliberately imprisoned & his brilliant strategy for revenge against those who betrayed him Dashing young sailor Edmond Dantes (Jim Caviezel) is a guileless & honest young man whose peaceful life & plans to marry the beautiful Mercedes (Dagmara Dominczyk) are abruptly shattered when he is deceived by his best friend Fernand (Guy Pearce) who wants Mercedes for himself Set up to be unlawfully sentenced to the infamous island prison of Chateau D& If Edmond is trapped in a nightmare that lasts for thirteen years Haunted by the baffling course his life has taken over time everything he ever believed about right & wrong is abandoned & replaced by all-consuming thoughts of vengeance With the help of an equally innocent fellow inmate (Richard Harris) Dantes plots & succeeds in his mission to escape from prison whereupon he transforms himself into the mysterious & wealthy Count of Monte Cristo Actors Guy Pearce Jim Caviezel James Frain Luis Guzman Michael Wincott Richard Harris Albie Woodington & Dagmara Dominczyk Director Kevin Reynolds Certificate PGYear 2002 Screen Widescreen 1851 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Subtitles English ; English for the hearing impaired Duration 2 hours & 5 minutes (approx)
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