The Picture of Dorian Gray (1915)

Directed by

Eugene Moore

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

22 min

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A silent film adaptation of Oscar Wilde's novel. It tells the story of a young man whose portrait ages while he stays youthful.

classicold-fashionedstagedslowliterarynoir-ishfatalisticdramatic

What happens

The Picture of Dorian Gray is a 1915 American silent film based on Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, which was first published in its full length in July 1891. Produced by Thanhouser Company in New York, this screen adaptation stars Harris Gordon in the title role with principal supporting characters performed by Helen Fulton, W. Ray Johnston, and Ernest Howard. A print of the film is preserved in the Library of Congress, and a substantial portion of the "two-reeler" can be viewed in digital form on the online streaming service YouTube. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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