The Picture of Dorian Gray (1973) (TV)

User Rating:

6.2/10   

Director:

Glenn Jordan

Writers:

John Tomerlin (writer)
Oscar Wilde (novel)

Release Date:

23 April 1973 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Horror

Plot:

In late Victorian London, a beautiful young man is given a portrait of himself by an admiring artist...

Plot Keywords:

1800s | Macabre | Based On Novel | Character Name In Title

Cast

Shane Briant	...	Dorian Gray
Nigel Davenport	...	Lord Harry Wotton
Charles Aidman	...	Basil Hallward
Fionnula Flanagan	...	Felicia
Linda Kelsey	...	Beatrice
Vanessa Howard	...	Sybil Vane
John Karlen	...	Alan Campbell
Dixie Marquis	...	Madame de Ferrol
Brendan Dillon	...	Victor
Kim Richards	...	Beatrice as a child
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
William Beckley	...	Syme
Hedley Mattingly	...	Parker
Tom McCorrey	...	James Vane (as Tom McCorry)
Patricia Tidy	...	Charwoman
Ben Wrigley	...	Hansom Cab Driver
Diana Wyatt	...	Lady Narborough

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Australia:M

Company:

Dan Curtis Productions

Quotes:

Dorian Gray: [as he observes his portrait] How sad...
Lord Harry Wotton: What? What do you mean?
Dorian Gray: How sad it is... That I shall grow old, but this picture will remain always young. My hair will turn gray, my skin will wrinkle, and my teeth will rot. While my picture remains exactly as it is now. If only it were the other way...
Lord Harry Wotton: Dorian...
Dorian Gray: If it were I who would remain always young and the picture would grow old. For that, I would give everything...
Lord Harry Wotton: Dorian...
Dorian Gray: Yes, everything! For that... I would even give my soul.
Basil Hallward: [smirks and raises his glass] To long life.

Movie Connections:

Version of The Picture of Dorian Gray (1916)

One of my favorites

I like both this version of DORIAN GRAY and the MGM version. Both add a little girl early in the story who grows up to have an association with Dorian (this is not in the original book), and that is my only complaint. I especially like Angela Lansbury as Sybil Vane and George Sanders as Harry in the MGM version, but Shane Briant as Dorian in the TV-version is much better looking (I think) and far more ruthless than Hurd Hatfield in the MGM version: I think Briant is more true to the novel's Dorian. In the end, this is a very good adaptation of the novel (it even hints at Dorian's liaison's with men, as does Wylde, which could not be done in the MGM version).