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Novelist Alexander Dumas tells his writer-son of Joseph Balsamo, a gypsy boy in southern France who was embittered because his parents were wrongfully hanged and he himself was tortured by the order of Viscount de Montagne. Years later, the man, a carnival charlatan, attracts the attention of Dr. Mesmer, a pioneer in the study of hypnotism. Balsamo rejects Mesmers plea that he use his power for healing and, instead, decides to use it to seek wealth and fame. He changes his name to Count Cagliostro, and achieves fame throughout Europe by mixing hypnotism with mysticism and showmanship. He is called to cure a girl, Lorenza, held by De Montagne, because she resembles Marie Antoinette, wife of the heir to the throne of France. Cagliostro decides to join De Montagne and Madame du Barry in a plot to seize the power by discrediting the future Queen. Cagliostro achieves his revenge on De Montagne by persuading him to hang himself. He makes Lorenza marry him but can never make her love him. Her love is for Gilbert de Rezel, the captain of Marie Antoinettes guard. In a dramatic court scene, Cagliostros power of hypnotism is turned against him by Dr. Mesmer and he is seen as a madman. His faithful gypsy friends, Gitano and Zoraida, try to help him escape but he is killed by de Rezel in a roof-top duel.
Orson Welles
Joseph Balsamo aka Count Cagliostro
Nancy Guild
Marie Antoinette
Akim Tamiroff
Gitano
Frank Latimore
Gilbert de Rezel
Valentina Cortese
Zoraida
Margot Grahame
Mme. du Barry
Stephen Bekassy
Viscount de Montagne
Berry Kroeger
Alexandre Dumas, Sr.
Gregory Gaye
Chambord
Raymond Burr
Alexandre Dumas, Jr.
Charles Goldner
Dr. Franz Anton Mesmer
Lee Kresel
King Louis XVI
Robert Atkins
King Louis XV
Nicholas Bruce
De Remy
Franco Corsaro
Chico
Annielo Mele
Joseph Balsamo - as a child
Ronald Adam
Court President
Bruce Belfrage
Crown Prosecutor
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