The Picture of Dorian Gray

Starring: George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Angela Lansbury, et al.

Product Description

Oscar and Golden Globe-winning adaptation of Oscar Wilde's classic story about a mysterious young man whose painted portrait ages through the years while he remains young. Starring Oscar-winner George Sanders ("All About Eve"), multiple Oscar and Emmy-nominee Angela Lansbury ("Gaslight," TV's "Murder, She Wrote") and Oscar-winner Donna Reed ("From Here to Eternity").

• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• UPC: 883929002955
• Release Date: January 2008
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Publisher: Warner
• Director: Albert Lewin
• Starring: George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Angela Lansbury, Donna Reed, Lowell Gilmore, Peter Lawford, Richard Fraser, Reginald Owen, Lydia Bilbrook, Morton Lowry
• Runtime: 1 hour, 50 minutes
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: Black & White; Subtitled; Full Screen
• Weight: 0.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

Maintains the essence of the story.

“I sent my soul through the invisible, Some letter of that after-life to spell; And by and by my soul returned to me, And answered, ‘I myself and Heaven and Hell’” - “The Rubaiyat” Omar Khayyam Dorian Gray, with the help of Lord Henry Wotton and Basil’s painting, realizes that youthful looks are everything and proceeds (in the presence of an ancient Egyptian cat god) to sell his soul in exchange for letting the portrait grow old while he stayed youthful-looking. Although the story was slightly modified for the sake of the medium and the long diatribes were cut out, Albert Lewin, Director / Writer (screenplay), left in the most important dialogues directly quoted from the book. The movie itself is in black and white, with some color plates of the portrait included. One of the biggest surprises is that Angela Lansbury plays Dorian’s love, Sibyl Vane; she looks like a little china doll as she sings “Little Yellow Bird”. Later, Lansbury will repeat this performance in the series “Murder, She Wrote”. Even though Hurd Hatfield plays Dorian, George Sanders, with his snotty-sounding voice, steals the show as Lord Henry Wotton, Dorian’s amoral-sounding friend.