
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Why did women talk about Dorian Gray in whispers?
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Release Date
3/3/1945Runtime
111 minsOverview
A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.
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A sumptuous and gothic adaptation that transforms Wilde's moral fable into a slow-burn descent into supernatural horror, watching beauty mask cruelty until the cost becomes impossible to hide.
Mood
Dread-soakedMelancholicUnsettling
Themes
CorruptionObsessionMortality
Tone
Operatic
Pacing
Slow-burn
Look
PainterlyHigh-contrast
Structure
Linear
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Graphic violenceSexual content

Hurd Hatfield
Dorian Gray

George Sanders
Lord Henry Wotton

Donna Reed
Gladys Hallward

Angela Lansbury
Sibyl Vane

Peter Lawford
David Stone

Lowell Gilmore
Basil Hallward

Richard Fraser
James Vane

Douglas Walton
Allen Campbell

Morton Lowry
Adrian Singleton

Miles Mander
Sir Robert Bentley

Lydia Bilbrook
Mrs. Vane

Mary Forbes
Lady Agatha
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