Slideshow
THE TRIALS OF OSCAR WILDE
Tuesday, January 4 at 2:30
Screenplay by Hughes and Montgomery Hyde, based on the play The Stringed Lute by John Furnell.
Starring Peter Finch (as Oscar Wilde), James Mason, Lionel Jeffries
(1960, Ken Hughes) “Fascinating, well-acted chronicle of Oscar Wilde’s libel suit against the Marquis of Queensberry and the tragic turn his life takes because of it. Peter Finch is superb as the once brilliant wit; stylish widescreen photography by Ted Moore.” – Leonard Maltin. DCP. Approx. 123 min.
Presented with support from the R.G. Rifkind Foundation Endowment for Queer Cinema and the Ada Katz Fund for Literature in Film.
Reviews
“Mr. Wilde himself could not have expected his rare personality or his unfortunate encounters with British justice on a morals charge to have been more sympathetically or affectingly dramatized… Peter Finch’s Oscar Wilde is Jovian in a grand and extravagant style. He is elegant and omniscient, the idol of lovely women and stalwart men.”
– The New York Times