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Posts Tagged "Oscar Wilde"

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Dorian [Pact with the Devil] ** (2003, Malcolm McDowell, Ethan Erickson, Victoria Sanchez, Christoph Waltz, Amy Sloan) – Classic Movie Review 12,179

Malcolm McDowell and Ethan Erickson star in the 2003 film Dorian [Pact with the Devil], updated from Oscar Wilde’s novel about an ambitious young man who sells his soul to the devil, ageless while his […]

Jun, 17

Dorian Gray *** (1970, Helmut Berger, Richard Todd, Herbert Lom, Marie Liljedahl) – Classic Movie Review 12,178

Divine decadence with Helmut Berger as the perfect, beautiful, debauched-looking Dorian in the 1970 Oscar Wilde sexploitation film Dorian Gray.  Co-writer/ director Massimo Dallamano’s 1970 Euromovie Dorian Gray stars Helmut Berger, who makes the perfect, beautiful, […]

Jun, 16

A Man of No Importance **** (1994, Albert Finney, Brenda Fricker, Michael Gambon, Tara Fitzgerald, Rufus Sewell, Patrick Malahide, David Kelly) – Classic Movie Review 8,763

Albert Finney, Brenda Fricker and Michael Gambon star in the 1994 comedy drama film A Man of No Importance. Finney plays a closeted gay bus conductor in Dublin in 1963 who puts on Oscar Wilde […]

Jul, 27

Oscar Wilde **** (1960, Robert Morley, Phyllis Calvert, Ralph Richardson, John Neville, Dennis Price, Alexander Knox, Edward Chapman) – Classic Movie Review 7236

The smooth and satisfying 1960 biopic Oscar Wilde stars Robert Morley as the playwright and Ralph Richardson as the ruthless prosecuting counsel Sir Edward Carson at his trial. Director Gregory Ratoff’s smooth and satisfying 1960 […]

Jun, 30

The Trials of Oscar Wilde **** (1960, Peter Finch, Yvonne Mitchell, James Mason, John Fraser, Lionel Jeffries, Nigel Patrick) – 7237

Director Ken Hughes’s sterling 1960 biopic The Trials of Oscar Wilde is one of two films released at the same time about the dramatist, who was hounded, persecuted and martyred for his homosexuality. It was beaten […]

Jun, 30

The Happy Prince **** (2018, Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Emily Watson, Colin Morgan, Edwin Thomas, Tom Wilkinson) – Movie Review

In his tour-de-force labour of love The Happy Prince, Rupert Everett tells the story of the last days in the tragic times of Oscar Wilde, a pitiful wreck of a broken man, more sinned against than […]

Jun, 18

Salome’s Last Dance *** (1988, Glenda Jackson, Stratford Johns, Nickolas Grace, Douglas Hodge, Imogen Millais-Scott) – Classic Movie Review 7127

‘NOTORIOUS, SCANDALOUS, WILDE!’ Writer-director Ken Russell takes a walk on the Wilde side and again challenges our good will and his actors’ stamina in his provocative and colourful, sometimes amusing and inventive, sometimes silly and […]

Jun, 06

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