The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
Country: US
Technical: bw/col 110m
Director: Albert Lewin
Cast: George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed
Synopsis:
An Edwardian roué remains miraculously young and handsome while a portrait consigned to his attic shows all the dissipation of his life.
Review:
Dull adaptation of a story whose guiding motif is more seductive than its unravelling. It is compromised by the director's heavy-handed reliance on the Rubaiyat, which recurs like a mantra through much of his work, and its most memorable scenes are those with George Sanders, who epitomizes decadence more than a hundred pallid Hatfields ever could.
Country: US
Technical: bw/col 110m
Director: Albert Lewin
Cast: George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed
Synopsis:
An Edwardian roué remains miraculously young and handsome while a portrait consigned to his attic shows all the dissipation of his life.
Review:
Dull adaptation of a story whose guiding motif is more seductive than its unravelling. It is compromised by the director's heavy-handed reliance on the Rubaiyat, which recurs like a mantra through much of his work, and its most memorable scenes are those with George Sanders, who epitomizes decadence more than a hundred pallid Hatfields ever could.
Country: US
Technical: bw/col 110m
Director: Albert Lewin
Cast: George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed
Synopsis:
An Edwardian roué remains miraculously young and handsome while a portrait consigned to his attic shows all the dissipation of his life.
Review:
Dull adaptation of a story whose guiding motif is more seductive than its unravelling. It is compromised by the director's heavy-handed reliance on the Rubaiyat, which recurs like a mantra through much of his work, and its most memorable scenes are those with George Sanders, who epitomizes decadence more than a hundred pallid Hatfields ever could.