Oscar Wilde (1960)

Movie
German title	Oscar Wilde
Original title	Oscar Wilde
Country of production	GB
original language	English
Publishing year	1960
length	98 minutes
Rod
Director	Gregory Ratoff
script	Jo Eisinger based on the play by Leslie Stokes and Sewell Stokes
production	William Kirby
music	Kenneth Jones
camera	Georges Périnal
cut	Antony Gibbs
occupation
Robert Morley : Oscar Wilde Ralph Richardson : Edward Carson Phyllis Calvert : Constance Wilde John Neville : Lord Alfred Douglas Dennis Price : Robert Ross Alexander Knox : Sir Edward Clarke Edward Chapman : Marquess of Queensberry Henry Oscar : Alfred Wills

Oscar Wilde is a 1960 British film directed by Gregory Ratoff about the life of Oscar Wilde . It is based on the play Oscar Wilde by Leslie and Sewell Stokes . The main role was played by Robert Morley , who had previously played it in the theater.

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The film covers the life of Oscar Wilde from his early successes as a writer, to his relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas, to his court case in 1895 in which he was sentenced to two years in prison.

Reviews

Oscar Wilde has always been compared to The Man with the Green Carnation , which appeared in the same month and deals with the same topic, and came off worse. Robert Morley plays "a pouty, fat poet who perhaps corresponded to the outward image of the real savage, but certainly not to the dazzling intellect of the much celebrated, much reviled poet dandy." Peter Finch in The Man with the Green Carnation is the superior interpreter of both .

Web links

• Oscar Wilde in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Man with the Green Carnation (Great Britain). In: Der Spiegel . May 2, 1962, accessed November 29, 2011 .