Le comte de Monte Cristo (1934)

Elissa Landi: Mercedes de Rosas

Quotes 

• Edmond Dantes : [Mercedes has just shown him the false death certificate]  I thought there must be something like this somewhere.

  Mercedes de Rosas : I've had it ever since... for many years.

  Edmond Dantes : Well, it speaks the truth. Edmond Dantes is dead.

  Mercedes de Rosas : Then who is this Count de Monte Cristo who closely resembles him?

  Edmond Dantes : The resemblance has been noted by no one but you. He is, in fact, to answer your question, a person so utterly unlike a man named Dantes they might have been born of different parents. Even the soul is not the same.

  Mercedes de Rosas : I can believe that.

• Edmond Dantes : Please believe I've put my task above the mean level of personal vengeance. I am exposing criminals, not for their sins against myself but for their black injustices to others... not only for what they have done but for what they continue to do. They are the ones devoid of all humanity, the ones that profitted by the sufferings of others.

  Mercedes de Rosas : Whom will it profit if you kill my son?

  Edmond Dantes : Surely you don't think this duel part of my design!

  Mercedes de Rosas : What else am I to think, knowing how skillfully you have destroyed the others?

  [Monte Cristo turns away; she follows him] 

  Mercedes de Rosas : Let me tell you about Albert. He worships you. Never in his life has he felt such a strong affection for anyone but me. He never understood his father; there was no bond of sympathy between them. Why? Because that was a part of my design. I reared him in the image of the man I loved. He is the son Edmond Dantes would have had. I had hoped that he'd be claimed by Monte Cristo.

  Edmond Dantes : [pause, then]  I claimed him long ago, Mercedes.