The Picture of Dorian Gray

A marvellous cast brings bite to Albert Lewin’s sensitive, elegant and witty account of Wilde’s Faustian fable.

  • Director

    Albert Lewin

  • With

    Hurd Hatfield, George Sanders, Angela Lansbury, Donna Reed

  • USA 1945. 110min

  • Digital

  • Certificate

    PG

Lewin’s typically sensitive version of Wilde’s fable about a young Victorian aristocrat who forfeits his soul to retain his youth offers an elegant, witty, insightful study of the process of corruption. Terrific performances from Hatfield, Lansbury and – perhaps most memorably – Sanders as the cynically hedonistic Lord Henry. The script, sets, cinematography and sense of period make for a vivid picture of Victorian society.