The Son of Monte Cristo(1940) Edmund Dantes, Jr., son of the famed Count of Monte Cristo, uses the masked guise of the Torch to come to the aid of Zona, Royal Grand Duchess of Lichtenburg, in an attempt to rescue both her and her country from falling into the hands of determined dictator General Gurko Lanen. Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett, George Sanders, Director: Rowland V. Lee.