Edgar Ulmer fans, this is a rarity by the "King of the B's," director of Detour, The Black Cat, Ruthless, The Naked Dawn, Strange Illusion, and so many other Hollywood films famous for their low budgets, but admired for their strong visual style and stark experimentation. "Ulmer had humor, passion, and a kind of demonic charm," Peter Bogdanovich wrote. The Wife of Monte Cristo was recently revived at the American Cinematheque (Los Angeles) Ulmer tribute, where it was described as an "ultra-entertaining yarn of the Count's resourceful wife (the stunning Lenore Aubert) stepping in as Masked Avenger, and saving plague-stricken Paris from a web of bogus drug-peddlers." Ulmer had this to say: "The only one that took two weeks to shoot was Wife of Monte Cristo, because that was a BIG picture."