Oscar Wilde Collection ( Salomé / Flesh and Fantasy / The Canterville Ghost / The Picture of Dorian Gray / The Fan / The Importance of Being Earnest )

Oscar Wilde Collection (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Salomé / Flesh and Fantasy / The Canterville Ghost / The Picture of Dorian Gray / The Fan / The Importance of Being Earnest
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Golden Globes
Oscar Academy Awards
Venice Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
524 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
3-DVD Set
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1922-1952 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Charles Bryant
Alla Nazimova
Julien Duvivier
Jules Dassin
Norman Z. McLeod
Albert Lewin
Otto Preminger
Anthony Asquith

Written By:
Oscar Wilde
Alla Nazimova
Natacha Rambova
Ellis St. Joseph
László Vadnay
Ernest Pascal
Samuel Hoffenstein
Edwin Blum
Albert Lewin
Dorothy Parker
Walter Reisch

Anthony Asquith

Actors:
Alla Nazimova ..... Salome - Stepdaughter of Herod
Nigel De Brulier ..... Jokaanan, the Prophet
Mitchell Lewis ..... Herod, Tetrarch of Judea
Rose Dione ..... Herodias - wife of Herod
Earl Schenck ..... Narraboth, Captain of the Guard
Arthur Jasmine ..... Page of Herodias
Frederick Peters ..... Naaman, the Executioner
Louis Dumar ..... Tigellinus
Edward G. Robinson ..... Marshall Tyler (Episode 2)
Charles Boyer ..... Paul Gaspar (Episode 3)
Barbara Stanwyck ..... Joan Stanley (Episode 3)
Betty Field ..... Henrietta (Episode 1)
Robert Cummings ..... Michael (Episode 1)
Thomas Mitchell ..... Septimus Podgers (Episode 2)
Charles Winninger ..... King Lamarr (Episode 3)
Anna Lee ..... Rowena (Episode 2)
May Whitty ..... Lady Pamela Hardwick (Episode 2)
C. Aubrey Smith ..... Dean of Norwalk (Episode 2)
Robert Benchley ..... Doakes (Framing Story)
Edgar Barrier ..... Stranger in Mask Shop (Episode 1)
David Hoffman ..... Davis (Framing Story)
Eddie Acuff ..... Cop
Frank Arnold ..... Clown
Charles Laughton ..... Sir Simon de Canterville / The Ghost
Robert Young ..... Cuffy Williams
Margaret O'Brien ..... Lady Jessica de Canterville
William Gargan ..... Sergeant Benson
Reginald Owen ..... Lord Canterville
Rags Ragland ..... Big Harry
Una O'Connor ..... Mrs. Umney
Donald Stuart ..... Sir Valentine Williams
Elisabeth Risdon ..... Mrs. Polverdine
Frank Faylen ..... Lieutenant John Kane
Lumsden Hare ..... Mr. Potts
Mike Mazurki ..... Metropolus
William Moss ..... Hector
Bobby Readick ..... Eddie
Marc Cramer ..... Bugsy McDougle
George Sanders ..... Lord Henry Wotton
Hurd Hatfield ..... Dorian Gray
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
Robert Greig ..... Sir Thomas
Moyna MacGill ..... Duchess
Billy Bevan ..... Malvolio Jones - Chairman
Renee Carson ..... Young French Woman
Jeanne Crain ..... Lady Margaret 'Meg' Windermere
Madeleine Carroll ..... Mrs. Erlynne
George Sanders ..... Lord Robert Darlington
Richard Greene ..... Lord Arthur Windermere
Martita Hunt ..... Duchess of Berwick
John Sutton ..... Cecil Graham
Hugh Dempster ..... Lord Augustus Lorton
Richard Ney ..... Mr. James Hopper
Virginia McDowall ..... Lady Agatha
Randy Stuart ..... American Girl
George Beranger ..... Philippe's Assistant
John Burton ..... Hoskins
Colin Campbell ..... Simpson the Tailor
Patricia Edwards ..... American Girl
Frank Elliott ..... The Jeweler
Michael Redgrave ..... Ernest Worthing
Richard Wattis ..... Seton
Michael Denison ..... Algernon Moncrieff
Walter Hudd ..... Lane
Edith Evans ..... Lady Augusta Bracknell
Joan Greenwood ..... Gwendolen Fairfax (Her Daughter)
Dorothy Tutin ..... Cecily Cardew
Margaret Rutherford ..... Miss Letitia Prism
Miles Malleson ..... Canon Chasuble
Aubrey Mather ..... Merriman
Ivor Barnard ..... Conductor

Synopsis:

Salomé: Salome, the daughter of Herodias, seduces her step-father/uncle Herod, governor of Judea, with a salacious dance. In return, he promises her the head of the prophet John the Baptist. Flesh and Fantasy: Two clubmen discuss the occult, introducing three weird tales: 1) Plain, bitter Henrietta secretly loves law student Michael. Then on Mardi Gras night, a mysterious stranger gives her a mask of beauty that she must return at midnight. 2) At a party, palmist Podgers makes uncannily accurate predictions, later telling skeptic Marshal Tyler that he will murder someone. The notion obsesses Tyler, with ironic consequences. 3) High wire artist Gaspar dreams of falling, then loses his nerve. He recognizes Joan from his dreams, and falls for her. Will any of his dreams, involving Joan and disaster, come true? The Canterville Ghost: In the 1600s, cowardly Sir Simon of Canterville flees a duel and seeks solace in the family castle. His ashamed father seals him in the room where he is hiding and dooms him to life as a ghost until one of his descendants performs a brave deed. Simon believes he may be saved when he meets Cuffy Williams, an American kinsman stationed with a troop of soldiers at the castle in 1943. Will this blood relative save the family honor, or will his blood be as yellow as the rest of the Cantervilles? The Picture of Dorian Gray: In 1886, in Victorian London, the corrupt Lord Henry Wotton (George Sanders) meets the pure Dorian Gray (Hurd Hatfield) posing for talented painter Basil Hallward (Lowell Gilmore). Basil paints Dorian's portrait and gives the beautiful painting and an Egyptian sculpture of a cat to him, while Henry corrupts his mind and soul, telling him that Dorian should seek pleasure in life. Dorian wishes that his portrait could age instead of him. Dorian goes to a side show in the Two Turtles in the poor neighborhood of London, and he falls in love with singer Sibyl Vane (Dame Angela Lansbury). Dorian decides to marry her and tells Lord Henry, who convinces him to test the honor of Sibyl. Dorian Gray leaves Sibyl and travels abroad, and when he returns to London, Lord Henry tells him that Sibyl committed suicide for love. Throughout the years, Dorian's friends age while he is still the same, but his picture discloses his evilness and corruptive life. Can he still have salvation, or is his soul trapped in the doomed painting? The Fan: Lord Windermere appears to all - including his young wife Margaret - as the perfect husband. But their happy marriage is placed at risk after Lord Windermere starts spending his afternoons with an adventuress who is working her way through London's high society, Mrs. Erlynne. Worse, Windermere gives her big sums of money. To crown it all, he asks his wife to invite the detestable woman to her own birthday party. Upset and outraged, the puritan Lady Windermere decides to leave her husband and goes to Lord Robert Darlington, who has been courting her for some time. Unfortunately she leaves her fan - the one Robert offered her for her birthday - in Robert's house. The Importance of Being Earnest: Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff are two men that are both pretending to be someone they are not.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 17 April, 2022.