The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) with George Sanders - Classic Film Freak
Tonight's movie was the classic 1945 version of The Picture of Dorian Gray based on Oscar Wilde's sole novel. The script retained a lot of the witty dialogue from the novel delivered at a rapid pace. It was sometimes easy to miss what the characters said.
The film is in black and white but several shots of Dorian Gray's picture are shot in Technicolor.
Perhaps this needs a brief summary. Dorian Gray is a decadent aristocrat. When a friend paints his picture, he makes a wish to have the picture age rather than himself. And so it does, absorbing the karma from all his crimes, aging rapidly and developing the diseased body he deserves.
From the article:
1945's The Picture of Dorian Gray is much in the mode of two other M-G-M movies made in the same half decade—the American version of Gaslight (1944) and Spencer Tracy’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1942).
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wow nice movie really
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I was trying to pick something to watch from 1945 (randomly). There were better films (Mildred Pierce, The Lost Weekend), but this was also really good. I'll have to rewatch those other two sometime.
What does it mean by "suitable only for adult"? was he an adult film actor?
I don't see those words anywhere in the article.
It is in the image attached with the post
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Oh I guess that's the old time version of an R rating.