| The Picture of Dorian Gray |  | Director: Albert Lewin
Actors: George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed, Angela Lansbury, Peter Lawford
Studio: Warner
Category: DVD
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Sales Rank: 3,746
Format: Black & White, Subtitled, Full Screen
Languages: English (Unknown), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Running Time: 110 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: WARD035941D
UPC: 883929002955
EAN: 0883929002955
ASIN: B000OHBCI8
Release Date: October 7, 2008
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| • | 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 |
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Product Description
Sensational adaptation of Oscar Wilde's morality tale about a young man who has an unholy fountain of youth--a portrait whose image reveals the depravity of his true nature. Hurd Hatfield, George Sanders, Donna Reed, Peter Lawford, and Angela Lansbury star; includes the original Technicolor sequences. 110 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English (SDH), Spanish, French; audio commentary; bonus shorts "Stairway to Light" (1945), "Quiet Please!" (1945); theatrical trailer.
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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
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