Originally issued as a serial between 1917 and 1919 in fifteen episodes in the following order: Edmond Dantes; The State Prisoner; Abbe Faria; The Secret of Monte Cristo; The Crime ant the Inn; The Vendetta; The Philanthropist; The Grottoes of Monte Cristo; The Conquest of Paris; Haydee's Story; Haydee's Revenge; The Day of Reckoning; The Last Exploits of Caderousse; Villefort's Punishment; The Triumph of Dantes.
It was one of the two favorite boyhood films of the future French Cinematheque curator Henri Langlois and he would imagine himself in the situation of the hero, a victim of plots who struggles to exact revenge by becoming successful.