From 1945 comes one of the best adaptations of Oscar Wilde's only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray. Remarkably we get a dry and witty George Sanders (Addison DeWitt in All About Eve), a 20-year-old Angela Lansbury (Murder, She Wrote), an equally young Donna Reed (The Donna Reed Show), and fabulous Oscar-winning photography mixing black and white with a little splash of color for effect when they show the painting. The Picture of Dorian Gray is a unique fantasy horror film that could easily slip into your collection next to the moody Universal monster classics, but containing more subtlety and wit to write it off as merely a creature feature. The story revolves around a man who sells his soul for eternal youth. He has a painting made that will age instead of him, and all of his sins will be wrought on the image of his visage in oil. He adopts a libertine immoral code, and loses all compassion and anything truly good about being human. Dorian transforms in to a young dashing beautiful monster.

Studio: Warner Bros.
Video Formats:
ΓÇó Full Frame
Audio Formats:
ΓÇó Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono (English)
Subtitles:
ΓÇó English
ΓÇó French
ΓÇó Spanish
Running Time: 110 Minutes
Release Year: 1945