Oscar Wilde (film)
- Robert Morley: Oscar Wilde
- Ralph Richardson: Edward Carson
- Phyllis Calvert: Constance Wilde
- John Neville: Lord Alfred Douglas
- Dennis Price: Robert Ross
- Edward Chapman: Marquess of Queensberry
- Henry Oscar: Alfred Wills
Oscar Wilde is a British film by Gregory Ratoff from 1960 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 in the theater.
Action
The film deals with the life of Oscar Wilde from his first success as a writer about his relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas to his court cases in 1895 in which he is sentenced to two years in prison.
Reviews
Oscar Wilde was always the man with the green carnation, which covers the same subject compared with the same month appeared in film, and cut it worse. Robert Morley playing " a pouty -mouthed, feisty poet, perhaps equivalent to the outer image of the real savage, but certainly not the dazzling intellect of the much celebrated, much-maligned poet - dandy. " Peter Finch in The man with the green carnation was from both the superior performer.