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The Son Of Monte Cristo�1940

oh

Vizionare Placuta

hey

turkey Bring Out The Prisoner William CL

yes

Traducere Tata Glont

go come

out thought you were in a hurry to get

me

in look General lanen is inclined to

offer your clemency in return for

information what clemency can anyone

expect from gero Lannon if you value

your life give us the names of your

accomplices I don't value it that highly

so you're the young man who made the

mistake of shooting at me this morning

my mistake was in missing you you are

worse than an assassin you're a

fool that's what your Countryman think

of you Colonel Zimmerman for saving

gerol lannan's life three years ago when

lenberg might have been saved by another

fool like me I missed you this morning

because I was too far away but

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now

stop let him

go that was the second mistake you make

Luke men like you never realize that I

rule you collectively because I can

Master you individually they tell me

that you're a blacksmith and proud of it

good well I'm the son of a stonemason

and also proud of

it Z you're not to interfere under any

circumstances

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yes now you can hang

him guard fall

in

will you please say that her royal

highness's cage is ready to start yes

Baro we're

ready you have everything money

passports everything remember you'll not

be of danger for a moment yes yes I know

but please don't worry about me General

lanon will never suspect for years I've

gone for a drive every afternoon at 5:00

yes but the day you're driving to Paris

if anything happened to you I should

never forgive myself my dear we both

know that our last hope is for you or

for me to make a personal appeal to the

French for weeks General Lennon's watch

your every move therefore I'm the one to

go I thought we'd settled all

that this will inform Louis Napoleon of

true conditions in lenberg and what we

offer for his IND vention it will be

fatal if it falls into the wrong hand

I'll see that that doesn't

happen a royal highness's Carriage is

waiting very good

start if you look at Louis Napoleon like

that you'll come back with an army

call

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well done St she's pretending to go for

her afternoon drive but she intends to

go further across the frontier then to

Paris her Royal Highness has just left

the palace you may go sta well done

thank you

Excellency but you'll stop

her it's difficult to believe that the

Prime Minister would accuse himself of

treason in writing but youve got him now

Excellency you must have patience in man

patience is a wonderful thing yes

Excellency when you're after my M you

can treat them as mice but fof is a lion

and you can't catch a lion in a mous

trap but treason that will bring down

even a larm yes

Excellency see who it did

start lovely afternoon for a drive my

dear B

your parting with her Royal Highness

must have been very

touching I'm wondering how you could

bring yourself to permit a beautiful and

inexperienced young girl to set out for

a foreign land carrying a very dangerous

letter in your own

handwriting you see my spy system works

very

well just what do you mean

Lennon I mean that when a prime minister

conspires to set troops of another

Nation against his own people it is

called treason and is punishable by

death I just given orders to have her Ro

highness brought

back and with her the proof of your

treason you wouldn't dare to lay hands

on zoner of lenberg you mean that I

wouldn't dare to permit her Royal

Highness to leave

lenberg aside from my personal feeling

zoner of lenberg is the symbol of an

authority that has existed in this

country for 20 generations and I desire

to employ that symbol extensively in my

dealings with the the

people up to now your influence has

prevented a closer understanding between

her Royal Highness and myself is a Pity

that such a brilliant career as yours

must come to an end my dear

Baron

Zimmerman

Excellency Baron fonoff is to be

confined in the palace dungeon until the

day of his trial

gods

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that's our first free breath I've taken

since we left the palace I can still

feel every soldier in the city staring

at the back of my neck I feel like

breathing when we cross the frontier at

petch poor Baron

vanov I wonder what will happen when

General lanon discovers we've gone let's

think of what would have happened if we

hadn't

gone it's getting

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chilly we're being followed by home the

pis guard Max

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hurry she's seen

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us

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[Applause]

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this way this

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way

f

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are you all right ctis and her Royal

Highness no don't worry about let go get

the

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horses

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I'm terribly sorry if my dogs frighten

you you you ruian my poor lamb I do

assure you Melle it was an accident he

call Setting his dogs on us an accident

isn't that something I can do can you

get us to patch quickly at once not in

your Carriage I'm afraid don't forget

the carriage just get us to patch in

that case it's as easy as is what as

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this that result seems to be in a great

hurry I am fit you know a shortcut

through the woods yes sir this way hang

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[Applause]

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on what happened to our Royal Highness

where is she well I don't know they were

here when we went after the

horses arrest these men Lieutenant Soul

take after men and search the left side

of the road the rest of you follow me

they can't get far on foot

spr

out am i h to make amends I've forgotten

to ask who you are yeah silly isn't it

and you don't know the RAF who wrecked

your Carriage I'm the count of mod

Cristo

Mr

fop may I present the of mon chisto I

beg your pardon uh Fen do Zona fasten do

oh

up very unusual isn't

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it can't we go a little faster surely

hold on TI

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up

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man after great effort I Hercules

Schneider have found you the only

carriage in pet of course the horses may

not be the best in the world can they

walk oh yes Madam that's all that's

necessary Point them towards Paris and

start the moving tonight Madam certainly

tonight but it's dark you don't say it

usually is at

night

Paris is the other way you're looking

back towards

lenberg yes I know I used to think it

the most beautiful country in the

world are you staying long in p no I'm

on my way to lenberg on business at

about 5:00 this afternoon it became a

real pleasure

trip I'm sure you weren't able to find a

carriage you were right no Carriage but

we must find one no Carriage ah it's too

bad but after all you do have one

because I sent for mine you haven't told

me the object of your journey but I know

it must be urgent therefore it's only

right that I replace your Carriage with

mine to save you further delay besides

the road isn't safe for a young girl

traveling alone anything can happen

you're quite right you're sure you don't

mind a very early

start oh not at all the horses and I

will be waiting with the Dawn Dawn

haven't you had enough driving and

excitement for one

day you will forgive us won't

you ah

oh good night yes oh well

uh good night good

night good

night good night Miss F and

up what are you doing get out of

here I've got a carriage and is waiting

down stairs you mean you I lied to him

of course I lied to him it was the only

way to get rid of him that young man

makes a career of helping people who are

in trouble get into more trouble but

he's so nice I I feel guilty deceiving

him

Zona Zona faffed up oh that can be

changed and it's a long way to

Paris soldiers lenberg

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soldiers see that nobody think this

room look here fell there's a carriage

waiting outside for whom this is not

lenberg I don't know how you cross the

frontier but you have no right to ask me

questions for whom is the carriage

waiting two ladies guests ladies of

quality their Carriage met with an

accident and they where are these two

ladies of

quality in The Parlor at the top of the

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stairs

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your Royal Highness how dare you force

your way into this room my orders are to

escort you back to lenberg your highness

I am also instructed to secure a certain

letter you are carrying to the emperor

of the French must I remind you I'm the

Grand Duchess of lenberg and command my

own person I am under Ord is your

highness a letter if you please I think

our Royal Highness said she commanded

her own person who are you my friend

here will introduce me please

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don't

don't my father was the best soulman in

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PR

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if I Hercules Snider have been 20 years

younger the whole lenberg Army couldn't

have taken her away from here what kind

of a country is it when common soldiers

lay hands on their own Queen from the

tales I hear the days are as black as

nights in lenburg a poor little Grand

Duchess a crown is a pretty heavy load

for so young a head and so

beautiful the Saints be praised you are

too brave a gentleman for those Bandits

to finish you you sure your feel right

sir oh oh

there there poor

gentleman

fafen

fafen faff do run get the doctor he's

out of his head no never mind the doctor

get me my

Carriage my business in lenberg is more

urgent than I

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thought

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Zona please you've been pacing the floor

for hours vanov guilty branded a traitor

a criminal his only crime was in being

my father's friend and mine he was more

than my master he was my friend I would

have given my life I understand how you

feel start you were one of the few

people he trusted surely your Royal

Highness has some plan to save him we

must save him how can they print such

lies about him H because gerol lanon

wrote

them you may go St and cus if you don't

mind ah my roses a thanks offering for

your safe return General Lannon I

command you to set back vanoff free at

once ordinarily your wish would be my

command but vanoff must die I understand

your grief you are thinking of his

services to you but I must consider his

danger to

me I consider that you're having him

murdered when the same thing happened to

Caesar and Louis the 16th they didn't

call it murder they called it patriotism

if Baron vanoff is guilty then so am I

arrest me arrest your Royal Highness

Unthinkable then I have nothing nothing

more to say to you but there is

something that I have wanted to say to

you of the greatest

importance for 3

years if there is a difference between

myself and other men it is because I

have dared to carry out my

dreams I dreamed of becoming master of

lenburg well I am

Master but I have other

dreams more

personal some men are born under a star

my great dream has been to share my star

with

you what are you suggesting General

lanon you should be able to recognize an

honest proposal of

marriage

marriage with

you a liar a murderer say it Madame a

peasant my peasant blood Springs from

the soil and it runs rich and strong

history proves that blue blood has

always benefited when mingled with red

better than any man I appreciate all you

represent Zona you're a queen but you're

also a woman together we could build a

greater lenburg could pass its Glory

onto our

children are you trying to say you love

me General lenon I've been trying to say

it for months even when you look through

me rather than at me I've often wondered

when you look at me what you see I see a

man I'd give mild life to

destroy get

out I quite understand the Aristocrat is

talking to the

peasant good morning your

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highness this paper has been printed for

months now some of you people here know

who printed it my orders are to strip

every house in this town until we

uncover the

Press I know who did it

who

who I'll take you

there go ahead

guys there it is there it is in here

Smash in those windows clean out this

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place where the place that bring this

filth I don't know where is it in the

basement I heard it

arrest him swz sper come with

me Steady

hands all right

outside so your Kurt murck the man who

prints the torch using your store as a

blind to hide this press it took me 3

months to hunt you

down you know the penalty for printing a

newspaper without government sanction

yes

but the charges against vanua our lives

there are some things not even the Rope

can

strangle take him

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away clean out this big

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st stop this is not Law and Order

General Lon gives the command to lck the

up but this is

tyranny

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him I'm gr to the man who captures

him this

way

you two men search that street you come

with

me this way not here this is our own

store I know it is where's your s over

here

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look what they've

done I'll pay them back for

this why did you think of coming here

this is the one place I never think of

looking for you thank you for getting me

away but you shouldn't have helped me

they'll hunt you down kill you on sight

how about you oh I'm used to being

hunted they've been trying to catch us

for months well ducking in here was

simple I wish I knew how we were got to

duck out there is a way out here

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this is the way we sent the papers out

why didn't you escape this way oh we

couldn't do that these steps lead to

some friends we might have betrayed

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them in the old days this was a cemetery

looks as if it still

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is

this is the

place who is this man he saved my

life gentlemen the printing press is

destroyed my father is arrested the same

thing would have happened to me only for

this

man

pass at least you escaped

I saw what you did Sir that was enough

to assure your welcome here I saw what

you did that was enough to explain you

being here I am frit Stoner Lieutenant

of the household guard this is

Lieutenant Schultz Lieutenant I'm Edmund

Dantes sometimes called to C Mar

Christo young Marty kristo the richest

man in Europe it's like meeting a legend

face to face you're twice welcome thank

you for what you

did

listen everyone disaster has dealt us a

second blow a death blow gerko has given

Zimmerman secret orders that Baron

vanoff is to die at midnight when he

dies all that is good in lenberg will

die with him vanoff yes this is a

picture of B on you Hall where are you

going FL missed him I won't killing

gerko isn't the answer I could have done

that long ago we must kill what girko

represents

right you must have a high opinion of

our country welcomed in a tomb with the

news that our greatest man is to be

assassinated and the knowledge that our

grand duchess is a prisoner in her own

Palace

prisoner but surely you intend doing

something about it easier said than done

zon is helpless without the support and

counil of vanoff to save her we must

save vanoff first and vanoff is in the

palace dungeon under a death watch as if

an old man could dig his way out with

his bare hands there is one chance but

it's so slim it's impossible but we'll

take any chance none of you can help

me I'd have to have someone in the

palace someone Beyond gerl

suspicion you men make me a little

ashamed of myself one hears a men like

you but never sees them you're right if

one you has to be saved it must be from

inside the

palace perhaps I can qualify as the

volunteer you need you but how can you a

stranger get in the palace

by using a bank draft for 25 million

Franks as a calling card money has

opened stronger doors I'm in lenberg

because General Anon has applied to the

house of money Christopher alone alone

yes which I have just decided to

grant gentlemen I consider it a

privilege to help you prove that the

torch of Liberty is difficult to

extinguish you mean be one of us

mentally I've been one of you since my

first hour in this

country

my dear General Lannon so good of you to

receive me beastly business this

thanking what do you know you look like

an entirely different person I hope the

effect doesn't remain permanent you know

I'm glad I thought of buying these

glasses on the way back to the hotel

they had that last Perfect

Touch I wish I didn't have to do this

I'd understand perfectly if you'd like

to change your mind about going through

with it I'm not worried about that I I

was thinking you of a Royal Highness

owna after our meeting in pet you must

have thought me a fool and now when we

meet again in the palace I have to make

her believe that I'm a bigger fool than

she

thought I can't let her know the me I'd

like her to know and I can't let General

Lanny know the me I'd like him to know I

I'm getting a little confused I'm

beginning to wonder which me is me it'll

take more than a few Ruffles in a pair

of eyeglass to fool gerol Lannon you'd

be better off with a sword in your hand

I'm afraid General lanon would suspect a

man who tried to get close to him with a

sword in his hand what makes you so sure

he won't suspect a fop a fop is a fool

and a fool enjoys a strange protection

not shared by other men no one takes a

fool seriously you'll need protection if

gerko discovers your real purpose is to

help Manu off

Escape my lieutenant D I'm sure I can

convince General lanon that the count of

mon Christo has absolutely no interest

in a slimy old

dungeon order my Carriage I'm a trifle

late for disappointment 4 days to be

exact

Excellency your Carriage is

waiting the C of body Christo to see

your

excy Monte Cristo eh so he decided to

come 3 days after I'd expected him if I

was some sniveling Prince these Bankers

would come falling to give me anything I

wanted if I didn't need his money to

build up my Army I'd give his Excellency

the count of monteo a lesson in keeping

appointments all i' go and bring him in

we shall have the pleasure of listening

to another bank or give us excuses

instead of

money where the

account account of Monte Christo your

Excellency welcome to lenberg your

Excellency thank you terribly sorry to

be so late that's a weakness of mine I

once kept the sh of Persia waiting two

weeks oh but at last I'm face to face

with a great gero Lannon I would hardly

allude to myself as great oh naturally

not that's a privilege reserved for your

admirers they say a cat can look at a

king so perhaps a humble Banker can look

at a

hero do you mind my curiosity not at all

but won't you sit

down if only you knew how I simply adore

men of action strong self-made men with

with High ambition who grasp life firmly

and bend it to their will my father was

like that you know yes I do know a

remarkable man yes I suppose he was but

I'm getting a little bored having him

stuffed out by throat by everyone oh

don't misunder understand me I loved him

and all that but I I'll never forgive

him really why not well if only he'd

endowed me with a little of his

character instead of all his money I too

might have been a man of

action but I'm not so there you are

yes but men of action can do nothing

without the support of influential

Bankers surely you must thrill to the

knowledge that there is more power in

your signature than there is in my sword

thr I detest

banking why at this moment has taken me

away from Paris at the very height of

the social

season if it wasn't for my intense

interest in meeting you I'd be very

unhappy however here I am so there you

are oh well let's get out of business

uh you uh you applied to my banking

house for a loan I believe yes 25

million

Franks 25 million Franks is that all Oh

I thought it was more well I however we

can discuss that

later of course I could give you a yes

or no now but that wouldn't be good

banking I've been taught to to frown at

a client put him off keep him dangling

so I'm afraid you'll just have to dangle

a while filthy business isn't it no

hurry no hurry at all I wanted you to be

thoroughly convinced that your loan

would be a secure one and I assure you

no no no no no don't try and get a

decision out of me I've already made one

but you must

dangle I trust that during your stay you

will be my guest here at the

palace that's most considerate of you I

should be

T Simone send for lieutenant Don yes

Excellency

oh there were two things they told me to

be short and see in lenberg if I can

remember them um I yes your lovely

Countryside and your grand duchess um

Zona I hear she's very beautiful it will

be my fa to present you to her Royal

Highness perhaps Tonight We Dine at 8:30

Charming Charming Lieutenant Donna this

is The Count of Monte Christo my

personal guest see that he's given one

of the Royal Apartments and that

everything is done for his comfort thank

you General the :3 then

a bit of a fool ziman but rich I think

if we handle him carefully we'll get

what we want Zona will you stop

wriggling this is the fifth time I've

gone through the motions of getting you

dressed you sure I look all right if you

mean will he suspect that you haven't

had a win of sleep in four nights the

answer is no I remember he said he was

coming to lenberg on business but I

never dreamed he'd come here will you

please try to remember that you're a

grand duchess darling it's the first

time in my life I haven't felt like one

he may be able to help us a man like the

count of mon Christo must have powerful

friends Baron vov had powerful friends

and he's having his dinner in the palace

dungeon perhaps his last

dinner I'm

sorry come

in dinner is served with the pleasure of

her royal hunts thank you

sir your highness may I present The

Count of Monte

Cristo I'm happy indeed to welcome you

to Lion B you're right Hest I can't tell

you our honored I am to be here the

Countess V BR the count of B Christo my

dear

counted the count of mon Christo is the

last person I expected to receive here I

hope your o highness won't think I'm

presumptuous it's terribly funny but uh

for a moment I had a feeling we'd met

before perhaps it's because a Royal

House reminds me of someone I once knew

how the most beautiful woman I've ever

seen but of course she was not the grand

Dess of lenberg Oh No in fact her name

was faff and

love what yes really it was fa love well

my dear chisto you don't strike me as

being the type of man who would let a

beautiful woman Escape him even if her

name was whatever it was well I did

everything I could I was even ready to

to to joust for the fair lady's favor

and I'm not a very good jouer but she

rode off out of my

life shall we have

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dinner my dear General Lannon it's so

refreshing in this day of unrest to find

a country where one firm hand dictates

the national policy why do you know in

France it's come to to the point where

where even a chimney sweep considers

himself as good as a king in nienberg it

is my policy to keep chimney sweeps in

the chimneys oh chimney sweeps in the

chimneys excellent my dear General

excellent very funny fellow isn't he I

understand you're in lenberg on business

your Excellency well no not exactly you

see oh he's too modest since 3:00 this

afternoon lenberg is indebted to his

Excellency in the sum of 25 million

Franks on the contrary my dear General I

feel greatly indebted to you it's such a

privilege to meet a great man doing such

great things for his country one can't

place a monetary value on achievement

don't you agree your Royal

Highness gentlemen I'll leave you to

your cigars and Port but I don't smoke

and my doctor assures me that Port is

the reason all Englishmen have the guard

if you'll excuse me I have a

headache I'm afraid the ladies didn't

enjoy their dinner oh really I thought

it very

palatable I have to report the 10:00

inspection of the guard has been

made 10:00 excuse me must be the

provincial atmosphere but I have that

that drowsy feeling just right after a

good dinner and before a good night's

sleep I quite understand well you must

have had a very tiring day suppose we

just say good night ah the perfect host

who knows the exact moment at which to

say good night attend his

Excellency

children and I are ready at 11

11 Splendid that gives me exactly 58

minutes and 30 seconds this where your

Excellency if don't mind I think I'll go

this way and I don't need an

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attendant your highest what a pleasant

surprise but fresh air is I believe the

best cure for a headache uh may

I

you Chang characters quite easily I saw

you first as a Cavalier now I see you in

the role of a fop flattering the ego of

a man that your first personality should

have every reason to despise just what

is your true character

H oh I'm a businessman a banker to be

exact I believe in making my clients

feel Superior to

myself in pet you made me believe you're

a chalous

gentleman I even cherish the memory of

what you did that

night I hope you believe it's my desire

to add to that

memory by lending General lanon all the

money he needs to completely destroy my

country but loans are not based on

sentiment but on sound collateral and

what collateral does he offer you a

mortgage on the whole of

lenberg what you have bought as a

partnership in his crimes against my

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people from what I've heard of your

father he'd hardly be proud to know that

his son had financed a tyrant and a

traitor but perhaps I made this loan

because I consider you the most

important part of my security how

unfortunate you should know that General

lenon does not include me in the

collateral for the reason that General

lanon has proposed marriage to me also

on a business basis you know you're even

more beautiful when you're angry good

night

oh well one at a

time good night

beloved therefore I garan do impose the

sentence of death by hanging upon the

set Baron

vanov and to order that the execution of

this death warrant shall be carried out

at 12:00 midnight May the 10th which is

tonight I believe do you have anything

to say yes you may deliver a last

message to General

lannin tell him that if he hopes to bury

loyalty to Zona of lenberg in my grave

it will rise again to destroy him

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cards

don't shoot just L tell Don reporting

for Duty sir well for the rest of my

life I'm going to view all fire places

with suspicion but it's very useful my

father and grandfather were officers of

the household guard they taught me a lot

of useful things about this Palace gerko

doesn't know let's hope that fireplace

is one of them are we ready as ready as

a Last Hope can be but it's better than

no hope at all I feel that I drag you

into this I galloped in we have one

chance in 100 of getting Tuan you off to

say nothing of getting them out that

makes the spoiling proposition s go this

way where's schz making his rounds he'll

join us

below these stairs have been forgotten

for 50 years let's hope they won't be

remembered for another

firstday in one minute the Sentry will

inspect van new off sale I'll meet you

at the bottom of the stairs all

right I better go in first you'd be

recognized on site but you'd be

recognized too no I won't I how to

create another character that General

Anon doesn't know one I hope he never

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will well it's the last night we'll have

to do this good

riddance the trouble with this job we're

as much in jail as Bon newa yes but we

aren't going to hang in an

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hour

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nothing new he's sleeping like a baby

well I wouldn't be sleeping like a baby

you would if you were an aristocrat like

van yuul oh let's have a look at

him he's sleeping all right

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remember the plan I know it but the

minute we get B off out we make to the

North

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Tower

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you please don't be alarmed I'll have

you out of here in a minute who are you

my friend young man this is madness if

every prisoner thought that there'd

never be an escape come on we're

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leaving take this gun this way

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quick they boled the door from the

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outside it's the turn key he's in

trouble

we're locked

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in Something's Happened in

there what happened what happened quick

man in the mask and Cake took bu youw

the old corer quick

this leads to the Army there guards

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there this

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way there's nothing Beyond here this is

a blind Corridor now it isn't even a

sporting

proposition you boys have been very

foolish there'll be four of on the

scaffold now we haven't climbed those

steps yet what's that the UR runs under

here to the river that's our way

out make it what move it's rusted

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in let's all try one

side fire under that

ball I'm going hold those GS

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off

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[Applause]

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the he give

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me Shut

now there's nobody in

here by the time they figure out where

we are we won't be there this

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way a traitorous

swine take more than fairy tales and

goblins to explain

this not even a man in a Mas could

disappear through these

walls look at that Footprints finger

marks disappeared through the walls you

imiles you stuff dummies in

uniform the world knows that I

considered fu a special prisoner kept

him in this dungeon where I could watch

him to prevent his escape and you have

dared to humiliate Me by permitting him

to get

away the man you were guarding was to

die at midnight you two will die in his

place but Excellency we're we're

innocent innocent or guilty you will die

if only because I must show the bodies

of more than one traitor to explain such

an

escape seems my orders are carried out

I'll pick up that GRE let me go

Excellency your life may be in danger

well upon you H at Liberty more than my

life is in

danger in

[Applause]

[Music]

here when you're after sewered siman you

have to go into seers to find

[Music]

them to see you H hunt go back along the

branch of the SE the least of the palace

keep a close watch we may have been

followed this is indeed a happy day for

us it's difficult for me to speak

because I never expected to see you

again and I shouldn't have but for Monte

Christo who a living proof that if

Justice is crushed in one land men will

Spring to its defense in every land for

the spirit of Justice creates a common

Brotherhood tonight you have dealt gon a

great blow not because you rescued a

prisoner named vanon yof but because you

set free a man who was a threat to his

ambition but it's no Victory gin is not

defeated so easily he's lost one

prisoner but he holds another far more

important Zona of lenberg until she is

free we have done nothing but it will

take an army to free her yes I know it

will our one hope is still the French

Lou Napoleon is my friend I leave

tonight for Paris we'll see that you get

safety out of the city

[Applause]

they came out of the water

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[Applause]

[Music]

here the old

catacombs here are the footprints

Le to this

door break it

[Music]

down

[Music]

the

torch whoever he is this torch is

dangerous he has a sense of

humor

[Music]

good afternoon your oldis good

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afternoon you surprise me you're quite

agile for a banker har it wasn't the

banker who climbed up here I just

couldn't resist the balcony a beautiful

girl and the

impulse I've often thought a man could

make a business of freeing caged

birds so many people who appear to be

free are really prisoners you appear to

be quite free oh but I'm not I've been a

prisoner from the moment I found you in

your rect Carriage you're a prisoner

too it's such a pity you have to be a

grand duchess when there are so many

roads to be traveled mountains to be

crossed happiness laughter all the

things you could have if you weren't a

grand duess who would give them to me I

would and I could too if you were really

z a faff do a girl on her way to Paris

love could come riding up to her

carriage but it's almost impossible for

love to pass the centuries at the doors

of a palace a man I'd welcome wouldn't

find it impossible to pass the centuries

nor would it be necessary for him to

enter the palace I'd go out to meet

him a man like the

torch

what a a Ruan a a masquerader a rfan and

a masquerader who's unselfish enough to

risk his life for others such a man

would dare take Love In His Hands be its

Master oh you don't think I have daring

that I could be Master daring in sport

perhaps master of

money I was speaking of

love that's to remind you I'm not Zona

faff do oh your Royal Highness good

afternoon

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now who is this he must be a magician

how did he get vop out of the palace

dungeon

those soldiers are looking for him all

over the

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

city well well insulting isn't he must

be a nasty sort this uh this torch

fellow if I could only lay my hands on

him well why don't you just reach out

and and grab him you could you know my I

don't envy you too many problems always

worried about Bonoff Louis Napoleon and

now this torch who seems to me to be

just like some character out of a comic

Opera my dear chisto at this moment your

comic opera character is a greater

Menace than the French I appreciate how

really dangerous he is I've used the

same weapons he's using against me why

this torch is more useful to fof than a

whole Army Corp overnight he could

become a hero a popular leader whom the

people would follow blindly mystery

excitement tearing those are the things

that the people admire really oh well

then you have to catch the fellow you've

made this torch sound very formidable

formidable well he's too clever to be

run down by a squad of pigheaded

soldiers but I have my own

weapons this torch has friends fellow

conspirators any one of whom would sell

his soul for 25,000

Cronin

May

I a little closer

please thank

you Splendid I'll double the reward and

furthermore I'm willing to wage to you

that the fellow is nothing but a but a

silly crackpot with no more brains than

I have the French

Ambassador for new have certainly hasn't

been letting any grass grow under his

feet I've been expecting him let him in

please excuse me I find Affairs of State

simply horrid and even more than than

banking his Excellency the

mar good afternoon your Excellency I can

carry out the instructions of my

government standing General lenon I'm

instructed to inform you that my

government recognizes Baron von newoff

as the legal representative of the

government of lenberg oh really either

you surrender her Royal Highness to

Grand as Zona into the custody of the

French government or she will be

liberated by force my dear Ambassador

I'm not as naive as that to you f newoff

may still be the head of the legal

government of lenberg but I have her

Royal Highness who is the government

itself in possession is nine points of

the law very well I will report your

answer to my government may I ask your

Excellency a

question yes what would be the attitude

of your government if her own highness

announced her marriage with one General

Lenin impossible not at all if she

thought that there was any danger to her

people of a Russian invasion she would

do almost anything to save them from

such a fate a Russian

invasion surely your Excellency realizes

that Russia is just as interested as

France in using lenberg as a buffer

against

bismar I can understand the Readiness of

your government to support from new off

against me but is it as eager to support

him against me and Russia good afternoon

your

Excellency Zona

Zona the French Ambassador just left in

Garo is furious that's because of Baron

van newoff I knew something like that

would happen as soon as he escaped oh

matil if we could only do something to

help

wait for nothing there's another

attack to help Baron van newoff and your

people You Must Escape away has been

planned be at the paston gate peasant

dress at 10 tonight and Trust the torch

the torch maybe it's a trap of

forgery no it

isn't no it

isn't come

in you wish to see me isn't it natural

for a man to wish to see the woman who

fills his

thoughts if you'll excuse me you may

leave without an apology my dear

countess

your Royal Highness I've never seen you

so beautiful you look almost Happy my

opportunities for happiness have been

rather limited General

lenon I didn't expect another visit from

you did you think be the kind of man who

was easily discouraged discouragement

only makes me fight harder to the kind

of man you are take into consideration

my feelings Z I believe me I desire your

happiness above anything else in the

world so you prove it by keeping me a

prisoner away from my friends my

people your kind of man General Lon

wouldn't hesitate to sacrifice even the

woman he loved to his Ambitions would it

be such a great sacrifice to share your

throne your life with a man who loves

you could you marry a woman who despises

you if she knew how much I loved her she

wouldn't despise me my destiny has led

me to this

Palace and to you I've already told you

General lenon I wouldn't marry you under

any consideration

my object in coming here was to ask you

to change that

decision that has the sound of a threat

but if I don't at the moment your Royal

Highness it is only a suggestion of what

that I should be most unhappier to adopt

another method of obtaining your consent

I have no wish to press you too closely

I shall return tomorrow at this hour for

your

answer and in the meantime I hope that

it will add to your happiness to know

this will be the longest of my

life mati ma yes what happened what did

you want marriage only this time it was

a demand M what did I do you can get out

of here yes yes but how we'll need help

start that's it start we can trust him

you're right get him get

him start I know how greatly Baron vanov

trusted you yes I he never doubted your

loyalty oh no highness I want you to

help me you must help me anything

highness I'm trusting you with a hole of

lenberg the

torch somehow you must get a peasant

costume for countless Von Bron and

myself I know what a risk you take but I

promise you the reward will also be

great will you do this for

me yes hus gladly go then

hurry

I flatter myself I've been of some small

service to your Excellency you've done

well SN I also flatter myself I am

fitted for much larger

opportunities a man's advancement rests

upon his ability exactly I'm about to

prove my ability by accomplishing

something even your Excellency has found

impossible the capture of the Tor what

do you mean you know who he is no but I

know where he'll be at 10:00

tonight well come on out with it did I

mention Excellency that I'm an ambitious

man and I'm sure your Excellency will

agree that a man who makes possible the

tortures capture has demonstrated his

right to larger opportunities to say

nothing of the financial

reward you're right stat what do you

want I feel I could serve your

Excellency to better Advantage as uh

shall we say chief of the secret

police I've underestimated you start I

admire a man who knows what he wants and

how to get it I think the man that runs

down the torch should be chief of the

secret police thank you and now the

torch has a Revo with her Royal Highness

at 10 tonight he has planned her Escape

if you set a trap at the pon gate near

the servants quarters you catch not only

the torch but her Royal Highness how do

you know your Excellency forgets I also

have her royal highness's complete

confidence if I can be of any further

service cover every inch of the palace

grounds with troops and keep them

concealed until the torch walks into the

Trap yes Excellency I never realized how

clever that really was but this is only

your signature over it WR an order of

the death of one Conrad's

T but I thought if he will betray her

Royal Highness he will also betray me

but do not carry out the order until

after we've caught the

[Music]

torch

[Music]

everything's arrange your H us there's a

peasant car waiting outside the

gate stand where you

are stand clear thr on your sword I'll

be glad to give it to you stay out s man

this is my

[Music]

pleasure

but the way you handle your sword you

must be a gentleman my father was the

best swordsman in

France my father was the best swordsman

in

[Music]

France M have it

back M

[Music]

Cristo

I tolded the torure be here and now he's

got away

start yes your Royal Highness

start

Zimmerman conductor Royal Highness to

her apartment and keep her under

Constant

Guard she's not to go anywhere or see

anyone without my permission if you

[Music]

please

[Music]

oh

[Music]

good evening your Excellency good

evening are you badly hurt oh no it's

just a scratch I was worried about you

so I followed you here and came in

without knocking yes I'm a

spy oh

now I

understand well what do you want stat

you know it's very difficult for a man

who's always wanted everything to

suddenly discover he can have everything

you ever wanted just uh what do you

consider your life worth for instance

it's worth 25,000 Cronin of gero Lenin

dead or alive it's a miserly offer don't

you think I'm worth much more to myself

it is strange how one sense of values

changes before I discovered you were the

torch I thought 25 th000 Cronin was a

fortune but now I realize you could toss

that amount to a beggar and uh I do not

have to beg you're a very clever man

St would you uh would you mind telling

me how you found out about this I've

always enjoyed the complete confidence

of a Royal

Highness oh I see and of course you

betrayed her to General Lannon suppose

we say I took advantage of my

opportunities h

I'm a trial nervous yes I can

understand I also take advantage of my

opportunity I just can't believe it

Monte chisto the torch and I thought him

nothing but a young idiot with more

money than brains I called him worse

than that and all the time his life was

in danger oh my what must he think of me

he must think the world of you good

night

[Music]

what is it gentl starts body was found

where we fought the torch last night

with 30 silver crowns in his hands and

this tied around his neck Tor

[Music]

again

well at least we're saved the trouble of

getting rid of the ambitious Mr

stut do you mind not at all thank

you a remarkable fellow this torch not

only a grim sense of humor but the very

devil in his sword blade my general

lanon I came to lenburg as a banker not

to attend a Perpetual mask ball this

torch of yours will upset my entire

social season I wish should catch the

fellow so I get back to Paris after all

he is your Affair we'll catch him and

soon whether we catch him or not matters

little now oh I thought he was such a

problem yes he was a problem but in a

few moments F new half France and the

torch will have lost their ability to

interfere in my

Affairs the Russian Ambassador

Excellency oh show Prince p and see we

not

Disturbed your Excellency

my dear Paul I've been expecting you the

guard of mon Christo Prince

par how do you do so you're the young

man with all the money not all I wanted

Monte Christo here so that he could

witness the signature of our historic

agreement after all he has a great

interest in lenberg Affairs 25 million

Franks Worth to be exact oh I think it

covers the points of our agreement your

Excellency

yes

yes all ready for

Signature my dear Paul thank you this

agreement pledges Russia to put me on

the throne of

lenberg and to keep me there by force if

necessary now you can understand why the

future activities of the torch are

reduced to Mere mock heroics King GCO

the first it's incredible really I'll

feel better when this agreement is

deposited in the embassy safe uh this is

more than an agreement it is practically

an announcement of my betral to zono of

lenberg you make a Charming couple thank

you your Excellency my dear

C and now if you will excuse me my dear

Christo I have a very important

appointment at this hour I trust you

will not have to return to Paris before

my wedding ah yes your wedding I

wouldn't miss it for the

world

General lanon is still outside he's been

waiting 10 minutes have you forgotten my

dear he's here for his

answer I'll

go you know why I'm

here my answer is the same what you ask

is

impossible I think I told you that I

would regret having to adopt another

method of gaining your

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consent

the Russian Ambassador has the duplicate

in his

possession you mean you've betrayed the

people of

lenberg turn the country into a Russian

Province well even you can't do that I

dreamed that one day I would be king and

that you would sit by my

side you forget so not that I a man who

dares to carry out his dreams if the

people knew you'd sign such an agreement

they'd storm the palace and brag you

through the

streets the power of diplomacy lies in

the fact that the people never discover

the truth until it is too

late I know how deeply you love your

people How concerned you must be for

their welfare Zona marry me share my

star we can rise to any Heights with it

and endow our children with its

greatness you're right about the concern

I have for my

people you've made it impossible for me

to save

them but I was born their Queen

I must remain their

Queen no matter what the

cost you mean you

will I cannot abandon my country when it

needs whatever protection I can give

it there's nothing left for me to do but

marry

you

soon

[Music]

you're a bold robber my friend toos it's

me I'm not interested in your purse

Prince paof I'm pursuing a hobby aasum

cloak a rather dangerous hobby I should

say I'm collecting the autographs of

certain people like yourself and general

lanon should we

say do you think I car a pen and paper

in my pocket of the autographs I want on

the document you carry so close to your

heart forgive

me you fool you R for

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this

[Music]

Edmund how did you find

out tell me you told me yourself when

you were fighting for me at the paston

gate

how of

course I use the same trick against gero

I used a pitch I should have known from

the first I didn't want you to know

Edmund I remember all those Dreadful

things I said to you at the same time

you were risking everything for me but

even when I said them I hated myself for

it can you ever forgive me I remember

one thing you said that a man like the

torch wouldn't have to pass the centries

at the gates of the palace you go out

and meet him is that still true it's

always been true from that very first

day of pet and and why did you write you

couldn't see me again

because not even the torch can help me

now I couldn't bear to look at you again

after you knew I must marry General

lenon but you don't have to marry him

that's what I came here to tell

you I've seen that that's why I must

marry him no you saw goo's copy this one

I stole from

POF tomorrow the world will know the

goo's a traitor it won't let you

sacrifice yourself to such a

man I'm worn out climbing in and out of

Windows and up and down chimneys It'll

be such a relief to go through an

ordinary door

again it would have been much simpler if

you had been Zona faff off a young girl

on her way to

Paris

Edmund you remember on the balcony I I

slapped

you you know we're not entirely safe yet

I must get back to my rooms before goo

misses me

perhaps I shouldn't have come here at

all but I had to let you

[Music]

know I warn you General Enon my

government will demand satisfaction for

the man handling of its Ambassador and

if our agreement is made public

prematurely I will denounce it as a

forgery safety of that document means

more to me than it does to you Pavlo in

the hands of my enemies it will destroy

me torch a man's a genius wherever he

strikes it's always in a vital

spot we've been fools Z man we've been

looking for this torch in the wrong

place he's right here in this Palace and

I can prove it to you by simple

reasoning four men in the whole world

knew of the existence of our agreement

now three of them are here in this room

the other Monte chisto that guilted fool

no that very clever young

man in whose interest has this torch

been working Zona therefore Zona must

know who he is in Russia he would have

been arrested un less suspicious you

can't arrest a man as powerful mon

Christo on

suspicion requires

proof and I think I know how I can get

it would your gentleman be interested in

joining me in a psychological

experiment present my compliments to her

Royal Highness and ask her to be kind

enough to come down here for a moment

ask her Royal Highness to come here I

think she'd be glad to

come if you mention that it concerns the

torch

allness I don't understand why you asked

me to come here I wanted to prepare your

Royal Highness for a

shock I know how great your interest

must be in a man who has risked his life

in your service my

service a short time ago Prince pavlof

was robbed of his copy of our agreement

by the torch but not without a struggle

during which the torch lost the one clue

which makes his capture

inevitable my men are closing in on him

at this moment why do you tell me

this or to soften your natural grief at

the news of his capture in sentence his

activities force me to make an example

of him you will

hang there is nothing else I can

do is that all you wanted to tell me

General

Lennon my yes since when has the hanging

of one man been of such great

concern in Russia we are more forceful

she's not interested in the torch your

experiment was not very successful you

must be patient by paavo this is only

the beginning of my

[Music]

experiment

[Music]

come

[Music]

in zaa Edmund you must get away quickly

General lon's men are on their way to

arrest you how did you find out in the

struggle with pavlof you left a clue but

there were no struggle with patho but

you then why did Lon tell

me he's using me to trap you he'll

follow me please go while there's still

time he'll be too late by morning the

agreement he made with paof will be in

the hands of the people he'll be glad to

save himself but he doesn't need until

morning to destroy you please go for my

sake all

right I'm going but I'll be

back

he told him to arrest the count of Bon

Christo but he didn't say anything about

the torch in the past the count of Bon

Christo has protected the torch now it's

the Tor is turn to protect Mar

Christo if only you had been Zona fath

and help Edmund I'm afraid I feel we may

never see each other again please just

for one instant let me be Zona

f

guard every exit arrest the of M Crystal

on

site

guard guard the passageway arrest the

counter M Crystal unsa there are guards

everywhere how are you going to

escape through the

fireplace the old fellow who built this

T us use our

imaginations you love me more than

anything in the whole

world keep saying that till I get back

I've made arrangements for you to

stay will you please put down that

sword I regret that a cell will not be

as comfortable as your present quarters

but it is only a temporary Arrangement

I'm sorry to disappoint

[Music]

you

[Music]

arrest that

[Music]

man seems that I'm forced to accept your

kind hospitality after all

I'll trouble you for the agreement that

you stole from Prince

paof because of your great interest in

this document I want you to see it

return to its rightful owner as I

mentioned once before I'll feel much

easier when this is in the embassy safe

at times blind loyalty is dangerous your

friend Lieutenant dorer for instance

tried to warn you that we were coming

for you this is the first time I

permitted my feelings to come before my

duty but I couldn't see them take

you he'll keep you company where you're

going take them away fall

[Music]

in

[Music]

[Applause]

Mar

I understand now how my father must have

felt 20 years in a Cell I'd rather be

dead than cooped up in a place like this

don't worry you'll get your wish kolan

is very accommodating the torch eh there

you are your Excellency a billy do for

you shall I wait for an answer it's an

invitation to the wedding if you stand

on your tiptoes you might be able to see

the palace from the

[Music]

scareful I wonder why I never thought G

lanon had a sense of

humor it's beautiful just as you're the

most beautiful bride that licken will

ma don't please I'm sorry just an old

fool there must be some way how can I

walk to an alar the same moment he's

walking to the

scaffold perhaps if I beg General Lannon

he might save him at the last minute beg

you can't do

that I can do anything for him just as

he was willing to do anything for

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me

the crowd is impatient for her Royal

Highness and your Excellency to make an

appearance in time in

time Roy Hiers here we go little

man Sona you're

lovely but don't you know that it's bad

luck for the groom to see the bride in

her Bridal G before they meet at the

altar that is it would be bad luck if I

believed in

luck they're waiting for us General

Lannon I know you're a man without Mercy

but I must ask you for

Mercy at this moment you've realized all

your dreams your star is shining in the

High Heavens you have what you want yes

I have everything I

want I have something for

you your wedding

present I do hope that it'll make you

happy you have the power to give me

something that will make me very happy

the life of Monte

Cristo his Liberty please send him back

to France he can't hurt you now but he

can hurt

me not as the torch but as a man who has

held you in his arms and kissed

you if he were alive I would remember

that every time I looked at

you here we go

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

good people of

lixenberg her Royal Highness and I thank

you for this demonstration of your

loyalty

affection and happiness at our

marriage a Royal Highness finds it

difficult to speak to you

because of the depth of her

emotion but I'm sure that she will join

me in saying that this is the happiest

day of her

life this is the happiest day of my

[Music]

life that'll take care of

you

I guess they're

[Music]

ready it would have been worth coming to

lenberg just to know you if for no other

reason I'm glad I'm going to be with you

till you

[Music]

leave

who goes there transfer of prisoners

from

[Music]

Brink to come

[Music]

up

[Music]

get in that

jail the new disarm them we'll need you

bring your

keys

Ed Ed here on

your get back there you didn't think we

just stand by to see you die it's all

planned you're going back to France no

you're wrong if you get me out of here

I'm going to a wedding that's about to

take place Edmund let well enough alone

we're grateful for your life you've done

all that any man can do from now on the

fight is ours not well there's a copy of

that Russian agreement in POF safe it's

too late for that now the moment gerko

marries Zona he becomes co-ruler of L

work with the powers of a king even if

we had the evidence there's no time to

use it and the palace is surrounded by

troops wait a minute I think we could

use it without fighting the troops a

good surprise is deadlier than an

army hunt can you make 100 copies like

this quickly yes how quickly two hours

maybe 1 hour too long half an hour I'll

try good start now Edmund is madness of

course it is we're all madman that's why

we have the strength of a thousand

ordinary men well

said

[Music]

outrage an outrage I am the secretary To

His Highness Prince P the ambassador of

his Imperial majesty and just the man

we're looking for open that safe I

refuseed open it very well but I warn

you only under protest you'll write your

protest after we

leave Max the whole country will thank

you for letting us ruin your stock like

this if those Wedding Bells make gko

king of lenberg nobody's stock will be

worth much here they

are Mar kisto that's fine You Look

Marvelous where's hun he's not here yet

what no h they waiting for

you I did it but the Press will never be

the same I knew You' do it pass these

out listen everyone remember to look and

act as though you really had been

invited be on your dignity as befits the

occasion once you're inside the palace

mingle with the guests but take up

positions where you can watch every door

and every window and every soldier in

the ballroom then wait for me we might

get into the palace but how will the

baron you and Dawn are get in you're

marked men they'll shoot you on sight I

know we'd have to capture the guards

outside the palace what the three of you

but all agree the wedding Must Be

Stopped aren't we well then let's stop

it give me a gun give me a gun give me a

gun

[Music]

but this is I extremely sorry my dear

Baron I don't wish to offend the count

bomowski but my instructions are to

admit no one without an invitation in

that case we shall both leave oh but my

dear Baron you were invited you must

attend I'm sorry the invitation

gentle I've ordered my Carriage to

return at 11: do you think the ceremony

will be over by the

oh yes sir I'm sure thank you sir

invitations

[Music]

gentlemen I think it to

work it has to

work

our Royal Highness Sona Grand Duchess of

[Music]

lenburg

[Music]

hast thou Zona a good and unconstrained

will and a firm intention to take unto

thyself to husband this man gero whom

thou seest here before

thee

I have your

eminence thou Hast not promised thyself

to any other

man I have not promised myself your

eminence oh we let that torch get away

and there 50,000 Crone around his head

never mind his head but your neck the

Galls we built for him G all use for

us I am free here help me help yourself

I'm on the way to the Palace there might

still be

time the servant of God Goro is crowned

onto the handmaiden of God Zona if

Christ isn't here in another minute

lenberg will have a new king the

handmaiden of God zon is crowned onto

the servant of God gorko signal or no

signal I'm not going to see my queen

marry that quiet you fool your own

everything where's the with the

guard mon chisto the torch has escaped

and there's 50,000 croning on his head

why tell me won't be my luck to catch

him he'll never come here why not I have

an invitation to the wedding from

General Anon himself haven't I jailor

there he is

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the

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sa look e

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it lock Us in take it

down and yell and tell their Horse no

one will hear them from in there we'll

get in theway through the fireplace and

meet Christo on the balcony if there be

any among you who

know why these two servants of God

should not be wed let him speak now or

forever after hold his PE I suggest the

general lanon is best fitted to answer

that question the

torch yes the torch not a man in a mask

and a cloak but the symbol of our

Liberty the son of a man who devoted his

life to the defeat of persecution ution

and Injustice The Count of Monte

Cristo there's no need to present me to

General Lannon we're all friends arrest

those

men hey where you are everyone it's my

extreme pleasure to inform you that your

guards are prisoners and you're taking

orders from me and the palace is

completely

surrounded

kol lanon I arrest you in the name of

the people of lenberg for the crime of

high treason against the state the

penalty for which is

death lock every door to this

room anyone in this room moves there'll

be no Survivor to the throne of

lenberg proceed with the

ceremony in another moment Baron f

newoff you you can present your charges

to your

King well go on surely you haven't

forgotten the

words repeat after

me I gko I gko pledge my life and my

love to Zona pledge my life and my love

to Zona to hold and to cherish her until

death of due part to hold and to Cher

cherish her until death us to

part repeat after

me I

Zona I Zona pledge my life and my love

to

gorko pledge my life and my love to Giro

to hold and to cherish him until death

has due

part to hold and to cherish

him until death us do

part your right

hand your right hand

Zona with this

ring I do Thee Wed with this ring I do

Thee

Wed

don't shoot this is my

privilege what running from the throne

General

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Lon I feel your form will be as

spectacular as you

rise

Ed remember I said I'd be

back Long Live Zer of

lenburg this is really the happiest day

of my life Long Live The Count of Monte

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Cristal

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