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This film belies itself in that it’s presence seems very innocent and fair on the outside, afterall it’s a vintage MGM movie spot in the aristocratic culture of Victorian England. However, remove these layers away and you have a very creepy and horrific movie. This reminded me of Hitchcock film due to the light atmosphere and surroundings with the deep undertones of the gloomy side of human nature.
Hurd Hatfield gives a heavenly and creepy performance as the indifferent and contaminated Dorian Gray. I found his face very mask-like and wintry as I would imagine a person without a conscience to be. He harms and destroys people with the grace of the finest Victorian gentleman. He has sold his soul to the devil to remain eternally young and ravishing, as his painted portrait takes on what he has truly become.
I have seen the dependable demonic portrait of Dorian Gray at the Art Institute of Chicago where it resides. It’s even more horrific in person and it adds dimension to this movie, and truly shows the destortion of pure scandalous. This is exemplary in the fact that even though this movie is in dark and white, when the painting is in the film frame, it is in technicolor. I deem that even though Oscar Wilde has produced a fabulous literary portion, some credit needs to go to the artist, Ivan Albright, for producing such a stark visual reminder of how wrong the black side of human nature can be.
This 1945 film adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s classic novella is more that likely the best adaptation one will ever contemplate. This may seem to be a ample statement, but Albert Lewin’s direction along with Harry Stradling Sr.’s Oscar winning Cinematography for 1946, appears almost flawless when comparing the classic unusual with the film.
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George Sanders as Lord Henry Wotton should have won the Oscar that year for best supporting actor because his performance is faultless, brimming with style and wit. To my mind, he is Oscar Wilde, snobbish, sparkling and uses his tongue as a sword, cutting anyone down to size who cares to challenge him. Some of his lines from the screenplay are pure gems that Wilde is so noted for:
“I like persons better than principles and persons with no principles better than anything at all.”
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“Forgive me for the intelligence of my argument; I’d forgotten you were a Member of Parliament.”
Dorian Gray (Hurd Hatfield) is a slightly effeminent aristocrat who makes a Faustian pact to obtain eternal youth. Gray’s portrait, however, reveals Gray’s soul, as he plunges himself into the dim and criminal world of 19th century London. Gray is selfish, uncaring, and arrogant and portrays the fair 19th century hedonist; a Wildean character in the truest sense, as the then horrible original, during the renowned Wilde trials, was partly responsible for his four year imprisonment. This was the time when homosexuality was illegal, and Oscar Wilde became a scapegoat for the English’s famous hypocrisy.
Angela Lansbury as Sibyl Vane won her the Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination. She is fair in this role, touching and almost pitiful as her innocence is corrupted by the cruel Dorian Gray.
What is entertaining about this film is that it is gloomy and white; however, the right portrait of Dorian is shown four times through the film in colour.
This was the only modern Oscar Wilde ever wrote, as he was predominantly a playwright and poet. The book also is a comment on the “Art for Art’s Sake” sensibility and a philosophical commentary on the Sparkling movement. The film also touches on these points, albeit on a superficial level.
This is a unbelievable film and one hopes that in the come future it will be available on DVD.
Absolutely top-notch.
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