George Cukor entered Hitchcock territory with this shadowy tale of suspense and madness set in the gas-lit glow and cobblestone quaintness of Victorian London. The film also inspired the term “gaslighting.”
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‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ on Criterion Channel
Made for MGM in 1945, the handsome and elegant The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) is still the best adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s only novel. Hurd Hatfield plays Dorian Gray, a handsome, earnest young man who stops aging after having his portrait painted, and George Sanders is Lord Henry Wotton, the hedonistic cynic who tempts […]