The Count of Monte Cristo (1942 film)
The Count of Monte Cristo( Spanish: El Conde de Montecristo) is a 1942 Mexican historical adventure film directed by Roberto Gavaldón and Chano Urueta and starring Arturo de Córdova, Mapy Cortés and Anita Blanch.
It is based on Alexandre Dumas's novel" The Count of Monte Cristo".
a story which has been adapted for film many times.
The Treasure of Monte Cristo
The Treasure of Monte Cristo is a 1961 British film directed by Monty Berman and Robert S. Baker.
The film features Rory Calhoun as an army captain in 1815 who goes off in search of a treasure on the island of Monte Cristo.
It is a prequel to" The Count of Monte Cristo".
The film takes the same name as an unofficial sequel novel to" The Count of Monte Cristo", namely" The Treasure of Monte Cristo", written by Jules Lermina in 1885.
In the United States it was released under the alternative title The Secret of Monte Cristo.
The Count of Monte Cristo (1961 film)
The Count of Monte Cristo is a 1961 French- Italian film version of the eponymous novel directed by Claude Autant- Lara.
The Sword of Monte Cristo
The Sword of Monte Cristo is a 1951 American adventure film written and directed by Maurice Geraghty.
The film stars George Montgomery, Rita Corday, Berry Kroeger, William Conrad, Rhys Williams and Steve Brodie.
It is loosely based on" The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas.
The film was released on March 3, 1951, by 20th Century Fox.
Harald Reinl
Harald Reinl( 8 July 1908 in Bad Ischl, Austria – 9 October 1986 in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain) was an Austrian film director.
He is known for the films he made based on Edgar Wallace and Karl May books( see Karl May movies and Edgar Wallace movies) and also made mountain films, Heimatfilms, German war films and entries in such popular German film series as" Dr. MabuseJerry Cotton" and" Kommissar X".
Reinl began his career as an extra in the mountain films of Arnold Fanck.
He worked as screenwriter on the film" Tiefland" directed by and starring Leni Riefenstahl.
Reinl's first movie as director was the mountain film" Mountain Crystal"( 1949).
He was Oscar nominated for his documentary feature" Chariots of the Gods"( 1970).
By the 1970s, he had semi-retired to the Canary Islands.
In 1986, in his Tenerife retirement home, he was stabbed to death by Daniela Maria Delis, his alcoholic wife and a former actress from Czechoslovakia.
The Count of Monte Cristo (1953 film)
The Count of Monte Cristo( Spanish: El Conde de Montecristo) is a 1953 Argentine- Mexican historical adventure film directed by León Klimovsky and starring Jorge Mistral, Elina Colomer and Santiago Gómez Cou.
It is an adaptation of Alexandre Dumas's 1844 novel" The Count of Monte Cristo".
The Count of Monte Cristo (1934 film)
The Count of Monte Cristo is a 1934 American adventure film directed by Rowland V. Lee and starring Robert Donat and Elissa Landi.
Based on the 1844 novel" The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas, the story concerns a man who is unjustly imprisoned for 20 years for innocently delivering a letter entrusted to him.
When he finally escapes, he seeks revenge against the greedy men who conspired to put him in prison.
This is the first sound film adaptation of Dumas' novel—five silent films preceded it.
The Return of Doctor Mabuse
The Return of Doctor Mabuse( Ger. Im Stahlnetz des Dr. Mabuse) is a 1961 black- and- white crime film/ thriller made in West Berlin.
It was a West German/ French/ Italian international co-production directed by Harald Reinl that was the second of the 1960s CCC Films Dr. Mabuse film series, being the sequel to Fritz Lang's" The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse"( 1960).
It starred Gert Fröbe, Daliah Lavi and in his first German film, Lex Barker.
The film was co-written by Ladislas Fodor and in his first screenplay, Marc Behm who gives the film a science fictional plot that would be followed in the other films in the series.
It was shot at the Spandau Studios and on location around Berlin.
The film's sets were designed by the art directors Otto Erdmann and Hans Jürgen Kiebach.
The German title" Im Stahlnetz des Dr. Mabuse" was a reference to the popular German police procedural television show of the time," Stahlnetz".
In 1966 the 1960s Dr. Mabuse films were released in the United States to tie in with Gert Fröbe's fame in the role of Auric Goldfinger with this film being renamed The Phantom Fiend.
The Return of Monte Cristo (1946 film)
The Return of Monte Cristo is a 1946 swashbuckler film which is a sequel to" The Count of Monte Cristo"( 1934) and" The Son of Monte Cristo"( 1940).
León Klimovsky
León Klimovsky( 16 October 1906 – 8 April 1996) was an Argentine film director, screenwriter and film producer.
A trained dentist, born in Buenos Aires, his real passion was always the cinema.
He pioneered Argentine cultural movement known as cineclub and financed the first movie theater to show" art movies".
He also founded Argentina's first film club in 1929.
After participating as scriptwriter and assistant director of 1944's" Se abre el abismo", he filmed his first movie, an adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's" The Player".
He also worked on adaptations of Alexandre Dumas'" The Count of Monte Cristo" and Ernesto Sabato's" The Tunnel".
During the 1950s, Klimovsky settled in Spain, where he became a full- time" professional" director.
He directed many spaghetti westerns and" exploitation films", filming in Mexico, Italy, Spain and Egypt.
Horror film fans best remember him for his contributions to Spain's horror film genre, beginning with" La Noche de WalpurgisWalpurgis Night"), the film that is said to have started the Spanish horror film boom of the 1970s.
Klimovsky directed famed Spanish horror icon Paul Naschy in no less than 9 films in the 1970s, while also directing other classic horror films such as" The Strange Love of the Vampires The Dracula Saga" and" The Vampires' Night Orgy".
Naschy complimented Klimovsky's workmanlike attitude and abundant energy, but he always felt that Klimovsky rushed through many of their projects together, never allowing for sufficient retakes.
León Klimovsky always dreamt of doing great mainstream movies but ended up doing commercial exploitation films, but he had no remorse, as cinema was a vocational mandate for him.
He retired from directing in 1979, at age 73.
In 1995, at age 89, he won the" Honor Award" from the Spanish Film Directors Association.
He died the following year in Madrid from a heart attack.
He was the brother of noted Argentinian mathematician and philosopher Gregorio Klimovsky.

Question: Which film has the director died first, The Count Of Monte Cristo (1953 Film) or The Return Of Doctor Mabuse?
Answer: The Return Of Doctor Mabuse