Heading the bill at the University for today's revival show, is the screen version of Alexandre Dumas' adventurous novel, "The Count of Monte Cristo." For the most part adhering very closely to the Dumas script, the screen adaptation brings to the moviegoer who likes swashbuckling adventure and romance an hour's enjoyable entertainment.

Cast in the role of Edmond Dantes, later the Count of Monte Cristo, Robert Donat gives a convincing performance, and with his suave, dashing acting captures to a great degree the manner and character of Dumas' immortal hero. Fortunately for the picture, however, the love-interest as supplied by Elissa Landi is subordinated.

In spite of the whispered query of the garrulous lady who came in during the prison scene, sat down behind your reviewer, and with a sigh asked whether this picture had anything to do with Dante's Inferne, the picture successfully translates and condenses the huge novel into a short movie.

The co-revival is "Animal Kingdom," starring Ann Harding as the mistress whose lover was unfaithful to her, via his wife. The superficiality of the plot, and the obvious trickness of the reversed situation of wife and mistress, does not make this film worth seeing, but "The Count of Monte Cristo" is worth the sacrifice. Better still, arrive after the one, and just before the other.