Drama - Director: Stuart Burge, John Gorrie, Rudolph Cartier, Tony Smith - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over - Starring: John Gielgud, Joan Plowright, Jeremy Brett, Susan Hampshire, Gemma Jones, Peter Firth, Margaret Leighton, Keith Mitchell, Rupert Frazer more
A modern tragedy Review ofThe Oscar Wilde Collection (DVD)by
NeilHudson
Advantages: Stephen Fry's performance Disadvantages: Not completely accurate
...all his life.
The story is familiar by now - Oscar becomes one of the most popular playwrights and wits of his age, only to shoot himself down at the height of his fame due to his relationship with the horrible Alfred Lord Douglas, for which he finds himself sentenced to two years' hard labour. The film goes to some pains to be historically accurate (it even gets right the almost illegible message that Lord Queensberry pinned to the theatre door ...
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24.09.2001
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