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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Unrated :: Warner ::
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2008-10-07
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4.5/5 (74 Reviews)
4/5
A haunting story
by C Wahlman (Merrillville, IN)
Everyone seems to understand the basic plot of The Picture of Dorian Gray: A man trades his soul for the appearance of eternal youth. Beauty and vanity drive a man, and his horrors remain for ever hidden, as they are bound in a portrait. The film adaptation is marvelously done. The quiet stated Victorian culture dominates, and almost makes the film feel slow, but the genius is hiding evil in the mundane. A man who never ages does not scare his contemporaries, but it scares me. Nothing graphic or gory, this film haunts with the idea that evil is always lurking, but you may never see it.
When the director does exhibit an "illustration" of evil, the audience is treated the gruesome portrait painted by Ivan Albright (available to view in the gallery at the Art Institute of Chicago). The painting, and its Technicolor presentation on film, is brilliant and striking. The effect of this colorized image with dramatic music is shocking and haunting.
Beautifully under-acted with true Victorian zeal, George Sanders, Angela Lansbury, and Peter Lawford do a superb job. Donna Reed did not enjoy making this film, and it shows. Hurd Hatfield is remarkable as the youthful, soulless cad Dorian Gray. This film is not to be missed by old movies fans, but highly recommended for all.
3/5
Old but stillvalid
by Daniel J. Agostinho
This movie is of a by gone erra but the message is still valid. The characters make the story interesting, just for the characters themselves.
5/5
Dorian Gray
by JNL Hearts (Portland, OR USA)
I've read the book and it was good. But the movie was amazing. So rarely is the protagonist someone you really come to hate, but this is the exception. Hurd Hatfield really plays the scoundrel well. The story has such great messages: Careful what you wish for, If your life is based on appearances what will you have later and all that. I don't know how many other versions there are of the story, but this one is far superior. The use of color, in an otherwise black and white movie, to show what Dorian has done to himself, or his portrait rather, is ingenious and quite haunting.
The story starts with Dorian young and beautiful and carefree. But once a new friends puts the idea of never growing old and a masterfully done portrait of Dorian retaining the stains that age comes with instead, he makes a wish. And like all plot devices, it works. Dorian falls in love with a young poor actress and once he finds that his influencial friends disapprove, he tests her to see if she is worthy of his adoration in a most cruel fashion and jilts her when she fails. Once he realizes that he loves her and it doesn't matter what his friends think, she has already killed herself. He then begins living his life as a shell of a person, doing the right things and mixing with the "right" people, but behind the backs of his friends is doing demoralizing things and his protrait is baring the brunt of his withering soul. After years he mysteriously remains the beautiful youth that should have stayed in the painting. Will the promise of a new love be enough to turn him around? Is there anything he can do to reverse the decay of his portrait, and therefore his soul? Will someone else end his wretched life for him?
5/5
Great for watching when you need to read the book for school ;)
by Ryan Galate (USA)
I watched this movie so I could understand the book that I needed to read for school. It really helped me out and was cheap to buy. The movie was long and kinda boring if your looking for a good movie to watch I really would not suggest this unless your in to that kind of stuff.
5/5
A classic movie that is still meaningful today.
by Charlene E. Thiede (Iowa)
This is an old movie that still has a lot to say to people today.
The Picture of Dorian Gray Summary
Years change, handsome Dorian Gray does not. He remains youthful- looking. But a portrait of him tells another story. It changes with the years, revealing the horrific effects of Gray?s life of debauchery and evil.From Oscar Wilde?s novel and filmed in a rapturous, deep-focus style that earned a Best Cinematography Academy Award, this chilling tale remains unchanging in its power to entertain. Hur
Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 10/07/2008 Run Time: 110 Minutes
These nip/tuck, Botoxed times would seem to be ripe for a remake of Oscar Wilde's ageless story of youth-worshiping aristocrat Dorian Gray. Until then, we have this 1945 prestige production starring Hurd Hatfield as Dorian, who, under the influence of the incorrigible Lord Henry Wotton, vows to live only for pleasure and to give in to all "exquisite temptations." While he sinks into a vile life of decadence and corruption, he remains young, while his painted portrait becomes "an emblem of his own conscience," growing more hideous as Gray becomes more monstrous. Angela Lansbury was nominated for an Academy Award for her heartbreaking performance as innocent singer Sibyl Vane, the first victim of Gray's callousness. George Sanders is at his contemptuous best as the cynical Lord Wotton, wringing every drip of disdain out of such Wilde-isms as, "I always choose my friends for their good lucks and my enemies for their good intellects." This pristine transfer does full justice to the film's Oscar-winning black and white cinematography (with vivid Technicolor inserts of the mesmerizing painting). With entertaining extras that replicate an old fashioned night at the movies, including a trailer and two Oscar-winning shorts, the
Tom & Jerry
cartoon, "Quiet Please" and "Stairway to Light," and affectionate, detailed, and illuminating commentary by Lansbury and film historian and screenwriter Steve Haberman, this DVD is suitable for framing.
--Donald Liebenson
Picture of Dorian Gray DVD Techincal Details
Cast:
George Sanders
,
Donna Reed
,
Angela Lansbury
,
Peter Lawford
Director:
Albert Lewin
Aspect Ratio:
1.33:1
Rated:
Unrated
Running Time:
110 mins
UPC:
883929002955
Binding:
DVD
Studio:
Warner
Release Date:
2008-10-07
Region Code:
1
Specs:
Black & White, Full Screen
Language & Subtitles
English (Original Language - Dolby Digital 1.0), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled),
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