The Picture of Dorian Gray is an American horror-drama film based on the 1891 novel The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, his only novel. Released in March 1945 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the film is directed by Albert Lewin and stars George Sanders as Lord Henry Wotton and Hurd Hatfield as Dorian Gray. The film was mainly shot in black-and-white, but featured two 3-strip Technicolor inserts of Dorian's portrait for effect (one of his portrait'...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray is an American horror-drama film based on the 1891 novel The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, his only novel. Released in March 1945 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the film is directed by Albert Lewin and stars George Sanders as Lord Henry Wotton and Hurd Hatfield as Dorian Gray. The film was mainly shot in black-and-white, but featured two 3-strip Technicolor inserts of Dorian's portrait for effect (one of his portrait's original state, and the second after a major period of degeneracy).
Dorian Gray (Hurd Hatfield), wishing to remain young and handsome for eternity, essentially sells his soul so that a portrait can age instead of him. The wish, made in the presence of an ancient Egyptian statuette of the goddess Bast inside the painter Basil Hallward's house, comes true. Over the course of the next eighteen years, Dorian commits every sort of sin, heavily influenced by witty, hedonistic friend Lord Henry Wotton (George Sanders). His sins include deliberately...
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