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The Trials of Oscar Wilde

United Kingdom

1960

123 Min
Color
English
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DIR Ken Hughes

DP Ted Moore

CAST Peter Finch, Yvonne Mitchell, James Mason, Nigel Patrick, Lionel Jeffries, John Fraser, Sonia Dresdel, Maxine Audley, James Booth, Emrys Jones

ED Geoffrey Foot

MUSIC Ron Goodwin

Synopsis

Peter Finch delivers a bravura performance (for which he won a BAFTA Award) as the flamboyant Irish poet-playwright. The story, based largely on court records, recounts Wilde’s sodomy trial stemming from his love affair with Lord Douglas (John Fraser). Sentenced to five years in prison, the once-celebrated writer finds his reputation — and his spirit — shattered. The movie also won a Golden Globe for Best English-Language Foreign Film.

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Ken Hughes

Ken Hughes (1922-2001) b. Liverpool, England. Associated with the film industry for over fifty years, Hughes was a television playwright and novelist. Most of his films were crime thrillers, including a bizarre version of Macbeth transposed to American gangland, Joe Macbeth (1955). The success of The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960) with Peter Finch led to bigger-budget projects. His most ambitious work was Cromwell (1970), in which the dictator of the Commonwealth was seen as a seventeenth-century Castro, leading his freedom fighters. Hughes did score back-to-back successes with the bond spoof Casino Royale (1967) and Disney’s Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968). Later he directed Alfie Darling (1975), a 70s sex-comedy follow-up to the Oscar-nominated Alfie (1966). —britmovie.co.uk 

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