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5.2/10 • 37

1970-04-241h 37m

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He is twenty-one. He has been twenty-one for almost half a century

London, England. Dorian Gray is a young man who somehow keeps his beauty eternally, while a mysterious portrait of himself gradually reveals his moral decay.

Directors
Massimo Dallamano
Writters
Renato Romano
Editors
Leo Jahn

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  1. Helmut Berger

    Helmut Berger

    Dorian Gray

  2. Richard Todd

    Richard Todd

    Basil Hallward

  3. Herbert Lom

    Herbert Lom

    Henry Wotton

  4. Marie Liljedahl

    Marie Liljedahl

    Sybil Vane

  5. Margaret Lee

    Margaret Lee

    Gwendolyn Wotton

  6. Maria Rohm

    Maria Rohm

    Alice Campbell

  7. Beryl Cunningham

    Beryl Cunningham

    Adrienne

  8. Isa Miranda

    Isa Miranda

    Mrs. Patricia Ruxton

  9. Eleonora Rossi Drago

    Eleonora Rossi Drago

    Esther Clouston

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CinemaSerf

Apr 13, 2023

5/10

I wonder what the author would make of this? It's crass and vulgar, which might have tickled him, but is also entirely unsophisticated - and I doubt that would have amused him quite so much. It's got a very early seventies look right from the outset with Helmut Berger in the title role - blonde, good looking, living a debauched lifestyle. When he is painted by "Basil" (Richard Todd) - a painting with nothing at all faulty about it; he is so struck by it that he offers to trade his soul for these looks to last eternally. What ensues is a tale of man gorgeous on the outside, but increasingly hideous underneath - and he can plainly see that as his lifestyle and character become less savoury and, frankly, depraved, so his image on the now hidden canvas becomes more ugly and distorted. His friends are powerless to stop this decline, even the ones that want to - and that doesn't include the decadent homosexual "Lord Wotton" (Herbert Lom) nor some of his less attractive lady friends - Isa Miranda ("Mrs. Ruxton") and Margaret Lee ("Gwendolyn") who successfully add oil to his fire. Berger is well cast from an aesthetic perspective, but his acting is as wooden as the frame on his portrait; Todd is just dull - a skill he frequently mastered during his long career, but Lom rescues it occasionally as the superbly sleazy queer peer and the whole Chelsea chic look to it adds well to the overall trashiness of the thing. On the whole, it's pretty cringemaking, but these stories have to reinvent themselves from time to time, and this contemporary (for 1970) version, though poor, keeps the spirit of Wilde's story alive just about.

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Status
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Original Language
German
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Keywords
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