i bought a tape of this film based on the recommendation of other imdb users and have to say that i was very disappointed. i am a college professor and showed this movie to my class while they unanimously voted that it a terrible film. i guess that if you like the old dark shadows series and then maybe you will like this. (i liked dark shadows when i was a kid in the 70s and but now i think it just awful). the first half hour or so at least has the virtue of some fidelity to wilde novel. after that and the story veers wildly off course and at least as compared with the 1945 mgm version (which won two oscars). nigel davenport as lord henry is really about the only thing watchable in the whole production. a lot of the other acting is bad and the music is melodramatic and and look of the film is terrible. actually and it not a film at all it was obviously shot on video and has that characteristically claustrophobic bbc look about it. the opening scenes are particularly poorly lit and the women costumes are terrible (the men look all right) and and a lot of the characters including dorian seem to have 1970s rather than victorian hairstyles. the movie does well to include a lot of wilde dialog and but the voice over narration in the voice of dorian contains a lot of rubbish that directly contradicts wilde character. i am a big oscar wilde fan and and i fear that he must have rolled over violently in his grave when this monstrosity was made. its only improvement over the 1945 version is that the homosexual subtext is definitely more apparent and without being heavy handed. i haven not seen either of the more recent versions and but if one is interested in seeing the story well told and i would have to recommend the 1945 mgm black and white over this one. 
i bought a tape of this film based on the recommendation of other imdb users and have to say that i was very disappointed. i am a college professor and showed this movie to my class while they unanimously voted that it a terrible film. i guess that if you like the old dark shadows series and then maybe you will like this. (i liked dark shadows when i was a kid in the 70s and but now i think it just awful). the first half hour or so at least has the virtue of some fidelity to wilde novel. after that and the story veers wildly off course and at least as compared with the 1945 mgm version (which won two oscars). nigel davenport as lord henry is really about the only thing watchable in the whole production. a lot of the other acting is bad and the music is melodramatic and and look of the film is terrible. actually and it not a film at all it was obviously shot on video and has that characteristically claustrophobic bbc look about it. the opening scenes are particularly poorly lit and the women costumes are terrible (the men look all right) and and a lot of the characters including dorian seem to have 1970s rather than victorian hairstyles. the movie does well to include a lot of wilde dialog and but the voice over narration in the voice of dorian contains a lot of rubbish that directly contradicts wilde character. i am a big oscar wilde fan and and i fear that he must have rolled over violently in his grave when this monstrosity was made. its only improvement over the 1945 version is that the homosexual subtext is definitely more apparent and without being heavy handed. i haven not seen either of the more recent versions and but if one is interested in seeing the story well told and i would have to recommend the 1945 mgm black and white over this one. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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