Incredible to think that we are as far away in time from this film as the film was from the events which it depicts.

RIP James Mason (May 15, 1909 - July 27, 1984), aged 75 RIP Nigel Patrick (May 2, 1912 - September 21, 1981), aged 69 RIP Yvonne Mitchell (July 7, 1915 - March 24, 1979), aged 63 RIP Peter Finch (September 28, 1916 - January 14, 1977), aged 60 RIP Lionel Jeffries (June 10, 1926 - February 19, 2010), aged 83 RIP John Fraser (March 18, 1931 - November 6, 2020), aged 89 You will be remembered as legends.

May we never forget dear Constance Wilde and may she rest in peace.

A brilliant , if sad film . In my opinion , Peter Finch's finest performance , he played Wilde magnificently .

@3vimages471

2 жыл бұрын

Finch was indeed great but not quite dandy enough or flamboyant enough for the real Wilde. And that`s not Finch`s fault.

@liudmilasubbotina6061

2 жыл бұрын

@@3vimages471 Absolutely agree... Finch is good, BUT he is not of Oscar Wilde quality

@SagesseNoir

2 жыл бұрын

I am bound to agree with you you, sir

@joan9569

2 жыл бұрын

How sad.

@SagesseNoir

2 жыл бұрын

@@liudmilasubbotina6061 Well, being an equal of Oscar Wilde would be a very tall order even for Peter Finch

Masterpiece of screenwriting and delicate interpretations! Thank you, Peter Finch, for your contribution to let Oscar Wilde live forever ☘️

@SagesseNoir

Жыл бұрын

He was a superb actor.

I never have known Lionel Jeffries to play such a loathsome character and an amazing job he did!

Fantastic performances, beautifully written, and absolutely enthralling. I first saw this film thirty or more years ago and it's lost none of its power.

Whoever played Bosie's crazed father did a superb job.

@bisembert

9 ай бұрын

Superb acting from Lionel Jeffries.

@SagesseNoir

9 ай бұрын

A great actor indeed

@JackRussell-nk3fe

9 ай бұрын

@@SagesseNoir And so terribly under-rated

@ninaalmark7584

8 ай бұрын

Lionel Jeffries

@cherryrotella3714

8 ай бұрын

Lionel Jeffries

Gosh, James Mason, Peter Finch, etc fantastic acting! Great script too..and it all looks period perfect!

James Mason, I forgot how great an actor he was

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” ― Oscar Wilde

@christinechambers2854

3 жыл бұрын

I love that!!!

@SoloEcho

3 жыл бұрын

Everything matters and nothing matters - me

@jogriffiths5766

3 жыл бұрын

The man had depth.

@kitwhitfield7169

3 жыл бұрын

I think that’s a misattribution. It certainly doesn’t sound like his love of artifice.

@user-on9ug5fi6i

3 жыл бұрын

@@SoloEcho ф@@@@@@@@@@@@£££@@@@@@@££@@££££££££££@@@@

I love this film, but I would strongly advise viewers not to miss the other version of his life starring Robert Morley. It's on KZread and it's a masterpiece. The courtroom scenes - with Ralph Richardson as Sir Edward Carson - will have you on the edge of your seat, even although we already know the sad outcome. A strangely neglected film - all the actors are at the top of their game. Hope you enjoy it!

@jamesmiller4184

3 жыл бұрын

"Will look it up, dear Douglas. Thanks much for the tip.

@facilitiesmaintenance

Жыл бұрын

I noticed that the other 1960 movie starring Robert Morley as Oscar Wilde is playing this evening on the old movie channel and I will watch it. I spent the morning watching this one and will spend the afternoon reading about Oscar Wilde and reading (and re-reading) some of what he wrote. I did not know when I woke up that today was going to be Oscar Wilde Day but I'm very happy that it is.

@Stella-mt2bb

6 ай бұрын

I have nota been able yo find the abovementioned, would you do me the favor to give me the link? Thank you!

@LordRobinNamaste

Ай бұрын

@@Stella-mt2bb kzread.info/dash/bejne/qI6LmbhwZc_amqg.htmlsi=bnCtZMEzWBG5pe8p

Oscar Wilde apparently could not or would not accept sound advice. His wisest friend advised him to avoid his suit against Queensberry. He wouldn't listen even though he knew had had been involved in activity that could be exposed in court to ruin him. Then he's advised to put Bosie on the stand, which may have helped him. Not sure. But he didn't do it. He was advised to leave the country before he could be arrested. He refused. It is almost as if he had a passion for self-destruction.

@kevinfred10001

4 ай бұрын

I don't think putting Bosie on the stand would have helped Wilde. A competent lawyer would have made mincemeat of him.

@SagesseNoir

4 ай бұрын

@@kevinfred10001 Maybe you're right. I said I wasn't sure that would help him. But all the other advice would have. Definitely avoiding that suit against Queensberry was the best advice of all. But since he didn't do that his next best option was to leave the country. After refusing to accept either of those two pieces of advice Wilde was doomed.

Another great film who is watching this in lock down

@finessejones6833

3 жыл бұрын

Me please tell me was Queensberry offering Wilde an Olive Branch. The bouquet of Vegetables or was he being sarcastic lol let me no 🙄

A beautiful touching performance by the always gentle and sensitive Peter Finch. James Mason gives his usual intelligent and completely convincing performance.

So many great actors in this wonderful film of the times. Thank you for sharing.

Great film, outstanding performance by Finch.

Top notch acting. Finch, Mason and Jeffries. Brilliant!

A singular, literary genius. I have loved the works of Oscar Wilde since seeing "The Picture of Dorian Gray" in childhood. Thank you for sharing.

What an excellent copy. Many thanks to the uploader. I had not seen this version. The lighting and colors I find to be beautiful.

Wilde got his desserts. He committed perjury to try and score a point off his accuser. His judgement was flawed, but doomed...Peter Finch does an excellent job as Wilde...

@ajajajaj624

4 жыл бұрын

I agree but i think the defense gave a great summation in defense of Wilde Whats your opinion if u dont mind me asking

What a wonderful film, loved every minute of it. Thank you.❤️❤️❤️❤️😊🇬🇧

I would just like to express my delight (and, I’m sorry to say, my surprise) at the thoughtful and civil comments below. It is rare to find such anywhere on KZread. Thank you all, you have renewed my failing opinion of the internet’s humanity.

@robertdore9592

4 жыл бұрын

Mark, anyone watching this would more than likely be an 'enlightened soul'.

@pristinerecords

4 жыл бұрын

Robert Ward Why yes, yes I do believe they are - I thought your god was supposed to judge, not you... Guess your brand of christianity is that familiar bible-thumping, cursing and hate. Not a good look, lol. Maybe time to rethink it. Have you ever even read Wilde? De Profundus? Do you think posting comments on youtube is the way to salvation?

@martinzitter4551

4 жыл бұрын

@Robert Ward ~ Ah, so we see that you are casting a stone. Now tell us all about your sins ...

@pristinerecords

4 жыл бұрын

@ladywharton Keeping in line with these " thoughtful and civil" comments :) ok so what? I mention De Profundis because of how Wilde writes about Christ in that text - as a rebel. I also highly value Jacques Ellul and Ivan Illich's writing, Simone Weil's writing, some mysticism like Evelyn Underhill's... 'liberation theology' is interesting... but if we consider these writings to be "Catholic" than these are exceptions associated with an institution with one of the worst track-records in human history... you don't agree? (I don't need to go any further back in history after mentioning the actively-covered-up child abuse, "ninos perdidos," church collaboration with fascists... right?) How can we separate Catholicism or "Catholic thought" from the horrible applications of orthodoxy? There are many self-identified Christians who are great people... they are not wasting their time judging others and writing hateful comments on youtube (like Robert, not you), and I think such people are also seriously questioning if not challenging the authoritarian, oppressive aspects of the church. Have a good day ;)

@FriendofDorothy

4 жыл бұрын

@Robert Ward Over-generalizations are folly. Thus all Christians are certainly not a*holes, but a dismaying number are indeed hypocrites. There is a peculiar and wearisome pride to such people ; they are actually convinced they are superior to others. Meanwhile, they shirk from the dirty and difficult work of bestowing their Christian love upon those who most need it as Christ did while they routinely "preach to the choir" within the comfort zone of their churches and tabernacles. Being an a*hole is a public display and much too visible to others; my own experience with the many evangelical folks I've known is that they prefer to hide their own "sins" and less than Christ-like behavior from others. I well remember a female teacher I had in the 7th grade. I was a painfully shy kid. This woman shook me, pinched me, and humiliated me in front of the class so many times that I thought of her as a "witch". On Sundays I would see her sitting in her usual place in the pew trying to look very dignified and righteous at an evangelical church I went to and I wanted to stop the service and rise up and scream to the congregation about her behavior but I did not as I was a kid. (Were she a teacher in today's world and I reported her behavior she would likely lose her job.). The day I see a Christian who is even remotely like Christ as depicted in the Bible I will change my opinion, but as far as I am concerned most people making a big public display about being Christian are hypocrites, especially those who refuse to leave the judging of others to God as the Bible commands.

This is such a fantastic film - I had it playing almost non-stop while I worked from home during lockdown. Pete Finch gives such a great performance and Lionel Jeffries is beyond superb as Queensbury.

@2msvalkyrie529

Жыл бұрын

Yes. in a pantomime Jeffries performance would be ideal .

What a masterpiece of acting and presentation.

A brilliant film. A brilliant score by Ron Goodwin...tragically forgotten by the public, rarely shown on tv anymore. Perhaps Talking Pictures TV here in the UK will show it someday - or Sony Movies Classics. Towering performances all round, especially from Finch and Jefferies. A perfect example of the cruelty and hypocrisy in society - which still pervades today. Mille Grazie for the upload.

my first time seeing this masterpiece.thank you for this excellent film.wow

I can't believe I knew nothing of this film until today. Excellent! Thank you so much for sharing!

Oscar would have been even more of a success today. So brilliant.

@arhassoc

3 жыл бұрын

I think Stephen Fry is doing his best (?) to be the modern Wilde....but is he succeeding?

Wow! Thank you Gianni. Best film I've seen in years. It's not up to me to comment on Oscar himself, the right n wrong of it all but the acting and overall production came off _exceedingly_ well.

Thank you for this masterpiece...I saw it at my local cinema in London..when it was released...it had a lasting impression on me.

@tramainestovell3756

7 жыл бұрын

My first time seeing this and I won't soon forget it. Superb.

@pedrolistacarey4880

6 жыл бұрын

Elizabeth - It made me sad ...How cruel some people are.

@cosmogal.ashella1907

3 жыл бұрын

Robert Ward Sir, I regret to inform you that you, in fact, sound gay - if gay was a curse word. I’m glad that being gay isn’t a sin, it’s natural and quite perfectly fine in all animal kingdoms. Good day, Sir, good day.

My beloved Dad was Peter Finch's 'doppelganger' ! it's a bit spooky seeing my 'Dad' on the screen !!!

What a magnificent performance from Peter Finch . "a love that dare not speak its name "..... my my how times have changed . This was a very sad ending to a brilliant man . You know I never had much sympathy for Oscar Wilde he really was quite a depraved man who lived his life in pursuit of sensual pleasures all the time . WILDE LIVED AS IF THERE WAS NO TOMORROW . However after watching this film I started feeling very sorry for him .. and i wished his life had ended differently . Very good film, thank you for it .

@nicholasalexander4743

2 жыл бұрын

I'm sorry for poor Constance. If Wilde wants to bugger rent boys, then that is between him and the boys. But I can't accept it taking place behind his wife's back. This film, and the one featuring Fry, do capture the sorry story very well.

A magnificent depiction of a compelling real-life Greek tragedy. I got given Oscar Wilde’s complete works when I was 15 and have read them again and again over the years, especially “De Profundis” and “The Ballad of Reading Gaol”, anguished eloquent outpourings of human experience at its most harrowing.

@bingola45

4 жыл бұрын

I love De Profundis. He really lashes into that spoiled brat of a 'Darling Boy'.

@SagesseNoir

Жыл бұрын

I've read those works also. Remarkable

A good movie of an amazing talent that succumbed to an ideal that became an obession. Appreciate that his son had input in the movie. Peter Finch did dear Oscar credit.

@cotswoldcuckoo775

6 жыл бұрын

Lots of Joy His grandson is cashing - in these days, too.

Great version of the story of Oscar Wilde and its such a shame that this movie is not restored on a blu ray, it only seems to exist on dubious quality DVd, so thanks for uploading.

The moral of the story is: Never sue anyone for libel if what they say about you is true!

@sphinxtheeminx

3 жыл бұрын

More accurately, never sue anyone for slander if they are talking about you - libel is the written form.

@syourke3

3 жыл бұрын

Sphinx the Minx True.

@VLind-uk6mb

Жыл бұрын

@@sphinxtheeminx Oscar sued for libel -- the Marquess left a written assault.

Fabulous from beginning to end. I thought this very close to what happened (except the end). The acting was superb! The costumes, sets & cinematography breathtaking! The story was faultlessly taut and meticulous. Peter Finch was as always, amazing! AMAZING! It was an absolute joy to watch. A HUGE thank you for posting!!!

@denisearmy903

Жыл бұрын

Exactly, I think the ending was not faithful to what happened in the real story, since in reality Oscar and Bosie did see each other again and their relationship was much better until Oscar's death

@VLind-uk6mb

Жыл бұрын

@@denisearmy903 Oh, not much better -- a little for the short time they spent together abroad after he was released. But they split up after a few months. Bosie was a class A jerk all his rotten life. Wilde's passion for him just drives home the irrationality of love, when it blinds people of great gift and judgment to all but desire. All Wilde had to do was ignore Queensberry's note -- hardly anyone had seen it and everyone knew Q was mad -- but because Bosie wanted revenge on his father he proceeded with an action all those with HIS best interests at heart advised against. It cost him his life, effectively.

@pipfox7834

9 ай бұрын

Yes, a terrible ending for Oscar - alone, friendless, penniless and existing in the lowest doss houses of Paris until his death as a destitute.

@paulprocopolis

8 ай бұрын

Given that the film was quite daring for 1960, I think the ending was altered to make it look as though Wilde's love for his wife was his 'genuine' love, and that his Bosie-induced 'madness' was an unfortunate phase ... otherwise, the film is pretty accurate (although Wilde was arrested in the Cadogan Hotel, not at home).

At least Oscar Wilde still had some friends when he got out of prison. Some people are friendless by the time they get out of prison

@starquant

4 жыл бұрын

Especially if you're a woman. Less than 5% of female inmates receive visitors, compared to over 90% of males. The figures are identical for people in aged care.

@danamuller5016

4 жыл бұрын

Erika K. Broady why is that ?

@tungstenkid2271

4 жыл бұрын

When I got out of jail in 2002 (a 3-month vigilante rap), none of my friends batted an eye, they're the sort of mates to have..:)

@SagesseNoir

3 жыл бұрын

@@tungstenkid2271 But you didn't live in Victorian England, and probably not involved the "improper conduct" of what in this movie is called a "sodomite".

@douglasmilton2805

3 жыл бұрын

Two good friends in particular, Robbie Ross and Ada Leverson, both staunch to the end. Bless them.

i loved oscar wilds poems...such passion

Many thanks for posting this brilliant film. Many years since I saw it.

I felt sorry for Oscars long suffering wife , She truly loved him .

@Brsbeach

3 жыл бұрын

It is wonderful however that his boys seem to have come to grips with it, even writing excellent books about it all...

@nicholasalexander4743

3 жыл бұрын

You are one of the few who even thinks about poor Constance. Nothing has changed. Look how people fawned over that 'so brave' shit and sod Schofield. Not one of them can be bothered to remember the long-suffering Stephanie's name.

@Brsbeach

3 жыл бұрын

@@nicholasalexander4743 Yes, it reminds me of Wagner's scorched earth behavior- So impressed with his own genius that everyone around him suffered endlessly...

@jackdoe4632

3 жыл бұрын

@@Brsbeach Don't you mean Churchill's scorched earth policies.Women and children running down the street on fire at the totally unnecessary destruction of Dresden right at the end of the war.

@alangiles4616

2 жыл бұрын

@@nicholasalexander4743 Also, Lord Adonis, grovelling little creep, who fawned over both Blair and Cameron, to get the governments ear for pointless projects like HS2, then when his luck run out and he couldn't behave like a government minister any more suddenly announced his "lavender marriage" after many years of marriage and is now gay. That all done for political advancement, though apart from 2 years as a Lib Dem counsellor in Oxfor in the mid 80s has never been elected by the pubic. He whines on about rejoining the EU to this day.

I have always read and loved Oscar wilde, he did nothing wrong in my eyes....great movie...thank you .

@MrPaultopp

5 жыл бұрын

Billy Duncan ....but this was a long time ago , not today

@supernova7848

4 жыл бұрын

Robert Ward Queensberry, is that you?

@hughmac13

4 жыл бұрын

@Robert Ward Are you saying that, despite the equally convincing evidence in their favor, neither Easter Bunnism nor Leprechaunity are the sole true religious faiths? What, exactly, doesn't look good for hardened atheists? You've personally visited, or spoken to people who have visited, or have photographs of heaven, "purgatory," or the alleged alternatives? You do know what happened to him at the moment of his death: he died.

@hughmac13

4 жыл бұрын

@Robert Ward "Hippity hoppity bippity boppity." -the Easter Bunny's "Letter to the Leprechauns" 4:25 For all the same reasons that everyone else kills themselves. Question for you: "Why do so many Christians like raping children?"

@childoftheuniverse2644

4 жыл бұрын

@@hughmac13, good question, indeed.

"Lashed to a gun carriage and flogged" , what , what !! Brilliant film . Peter Finch was indeed a splendid actor .

The scene between OW and Wood is masterful! Finch is amazing though out 😍. Thank you for posting !

Such a good movie, thanks for the upload Gianni Telesca x

Oscar's mistake was putting more importance on Bozie, than his wife and children. Bozie was such a brat, and Oscar lost his family in the end.

@kevinfred10001

3 жыл бұрын

Oscar spent a lot of money to maintain the attention of Bosie and the other men, while being unfaitful to his wife. I think he met his own definition of cynic, a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

@lesleymcshanemitchell9651

2 жыл бұрын

Along with everything else. To much to long for to little. Iscar paid a dear price

@casanova1925

2 жыл бұрын

I’m pretty sure there’s a name for people who tell the ending of a movie and spoil it for those who haven’t seen it.

@ttacking_you

2 жыл бұрын

@@casanova1925 I mean, it's kinda common knowledge.🤨

@anthonysalgado4336

Жыл бұрын

You do know he got married because he had no choice,do to the fact homosexuality was illegal at the time it may seem selfish and unfair but oscar wilde was a homosexual,it is an ignorant thing to say he should of paid more attention to his wife and kids. He loved his children and wife but he was not straight and loved them differently. Boise may have been a snob but his life was destroyed because of the prejudices of the times,I recommend seeing the movie called The Happy Prince..... you may be enlightened by his later life.

If I've already seen this, I've forgotten -- one of the few perks of growing really old. Will watch it again tonight.

@williamf4544

3 жыл бұрын

Your lucky you know youve seen it - quite often i can get virtually to the the end of a film then a light bulb moment happens and it all seems rather familiar

Mrs. Wilde warned her illustrious husband that Bosie "will destroy you, Oscar". She was right. Too bad Oscar either couldn't see this, or couldn't resist his attraction to that obnoxious, narcissistic little twit. It apparently wasn't until he was in prison that he really saw the light

@FriendofDorothy

4 жыл бұрын

That wasn't my impression from reading what he wrote while in prison. He had deep and painful regrets of course but the romantic yearning still dripped from his pen. There was no proof presented other than the words of some low-life young men that he even actively participated in sodomy. All he had to do was hang out with young men and be hopelessly in love with a mental-health-challenged hustler who was jealous of his talent to inspire their scandal-loving imaginations to salacious levels of outrage.

@annyjoseph6162

4 жыл бұрын

@Robert Ward Well,I wouldn't know . All I can say is that I admire Oscar Wilde immensely and that his wife was a fantastic lady. And he thought so too. Love can take many forms.

@bingola45

4 жыл бұрын

@Robert Ward If you want to enter heaven... What on earth has 'entering heaven' got to do with Wilde's sexual make-up? He was his own worst enemy because he insisted on parading his particular sexual proclivity in a society that didn't welcome it. Lots of great men in Wilde's profession have unusual sex lives; they just don't go into the Savoy Grill and publicly make sure everyone knows about it.

@robert3987

3 жыл бұрын

He refused to see the light when he was in prison.

@SagesseNoir

2 жыл бұрын

@@robert3987 Poor fool.

I'm half way through and already this film is beyond amazing. I have a lot of admiration for Oscar Wilde as a writer. I didn't know anything about his life except that he was a man of unsurpassed intellect. I must say though that the relationship between Bosey and his father is strikingly common in families. I noticed that parents who have a tendency toward cruelty, abuse their children (and this has apparently going on when Basey was a young man - the abuse against his mother must have been unbearable for a young boy). This is the "morality" that this man, Bosey's father seeks to uphold? I don't remember the exact quote but Oscar Wilde at one point says that "morality" is the excuse for some of the greatest cruelties (paragraphed). It's sad indeed that kindness and morality can have such a wide breach.

Peter Finch was one of the greats of British cinema as The Trials Of Oscar Wilde confirm!! A sorely missed actor who's like we only occasionally in this 21st century

@jamessandy5873

5 жыл бұрын

*whose, not "who's"

@c.a.savage5689

Жыл бұрын

​@@jamessandy5873 actually it's very badly formulated: A sorely missed actor, the likes of which are only occasionally seen in the 21st century.

@VLind-uk6mb

Жыл бұрын

@@c.a.savage5689 The likes of whom, surely.

@leopoldbourne8444

Жыл бұрын

Indeed Finch was great in British cinema, but would like to remind everyone he was actually Australian. Like me, he was a Sydney boy. When Laurence Olivier toured Australia shortly after the Second World War, the supporting cast consisted of Australian actors. Olivier, seeing his potential, brought him to the UK.

Excellent movie. I just listened to a Cambridge lecture by Stephen Frye and he mentioned this book and a letter that Oscar Wilde wrote to Bosey from prison. It’s a shame that he allowed this selfish punk to leech off of him. Thank you for sharing this extraordinary movie.

@sujatavarma1904

2 жыл бұрын

De Profundis was the letter; right?

@pipfox7834

2 жыл бұрын

I don't think De Profundis was the letter to Bosie. Bosie was an intellectual featherweight, it would have gone right over his head.

@kevinfred10001

Жыл бұрын

Bosey no doubt was selfish, but Oscar also was selfish, he was using Bosie.

@luc716

6 ай бұрын

@@kevinfred10001 I mean Bosie admitted at the end of his life that he was a selfish beast to Oscar

Wilde “Ignorance is a delicate blossom touch it and it’s gone”. Thank you for a superbly acted movie. Director(KenHughes)

@lukash2523

5 жыл бұрын

But don't forget, " Virginity is like a balloon, one prick and its gone".

@ggozum1004

4 жыл бұрын

James Mason has a small Scene!

"Be yourself, no matter what they say."

Goodness Gracious, They don't make such fabulous movies like this anymore 🙃 I was dressmaking during the whole movie and nothing else existed for the duration as it was just so captivating ❤️

Wow. Just Wow. When James Mason appeared I was totally caught off guard! This 🎥 tho was really well done. It gives me the desire to Google how his life continued on. I am an actor and have been in THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ....and can say the writing is pretty much flawless. This was a really good flick.

That was well done. Thank you for sharing it.

Thanks for uploading!

Kudos to screenwriters Montgomery Hyde and Ken Hughes! Their dialogue was so sharp. You would think they had the transcripts from the trials, although I saw no stenographer on staff. Oscar Wilde would have enjoyed this. Deserving of every award well-earned. Glad they passed over Alec Guinness and Laurence Olivier. Peter Finch was just right. Unfortunately, life is often a matter of choices and consequences. Choices can often be controlled, but consequences may be beyond our repair.

Thank you so much for uploading this!!Despite being a lifelong Wilde fan, I’d always resisted seeing this film, fearing they’d sanitize his life. For its time, it’s very candid. What remarkable performances by Finch and Jeffries.

@bingola45

4 жыл бұрын

I'm a fan of Wilde's work. I'm not so keen on the man.

@raymondhume7498

2 жыл бұрын

An extremely well made & underrated film for it’s time. Peter Finch’s performance was perfection & I thought Lionel Jeffries interpretation of Lord Queensberry was a joy!

@sebastianmelmoth685

2 жыл бұрын

@@bingola45 How could you possibly know the man?

@kaylouisecook366

2 жыл бұрын

Had never heard of this version of the Trials. So tragic...need to purs ue the rest of his life. The picture of Dorian Gray is embedded in my memory since I saw it as a young girl, and the Importance of being Ernest-how many times I saw it on stage....

@janetphillips2875

Жыл бұрын

All the movies nowadays are shootouts, loud high pitched noises, and cars exploding, and oh yes, contant use of the F word

What a great movie and great acting by all thank you for the movie I'm 89 years old and I usually fall asleep but I stayed awake for this whole movie very well done.

This is a involving and edifying movie for the viewer who in the past was only generally aware of the wit of Oscar Wilde and that had only tangential knowledge of the morality charges brought against him.

Wow, what a great movie, thanks for the upload.

Speechless yet sad! Wilde was vulnerable and thetefore he suffered! and kudos to Ken Hughes to portray little hints of the purity of two "male" friendship that to in the old era!!!😮❤️🙏

Oscar to this day a genius and quite loved

@tedthesailor172

5 жыл бұрын

Who betrayed his wife-of-convenience in a despicable way...

@321bytor

4 жыл бұрын

@Robert Ward Get a grip you 'funny little man'

@321bytor

4 жыл бұрын

@Robert Ward It's of consequence. So what if he 'converted'? Doesn't make Christianity any less nonsensical

@worrywart1311

4 жыл бұрын

@Robert Ward Why do you presume Wilde didn't go to heaven? You know how it works - you can "wash yourself clean" at the very last second of life, and all that jazz! Congratulations on performing your very own miracle. Mary might have had one with a virgin birth (nudge nudge) but apparently YOU are the only male ever born not to commit the "grave sin of masturbation" (wink wink). Give my regards to the 19th century.

@kitwhitfield7169

3 жыл бұрын

@Robert Ward Douglas was also a vocal anti-Semite. Is that Christian, in your view?

I've always admired Finch and Mason, but in re-viewing again this film, I must add Nigel Patrick as Wilde's defense attorney,, to those of Finch and Mason. Patrick's final summation to the court displays this actors empathy for Wilde, and his complete understanding of his own character.

@johnnhoj6749

5 жыл бұрын

I agree. Nigel Patrick is one of the most underrated British film actors.

@3vimages471

2 жыл бұрын

And the great Lionel Jefferies,

@eshaibraheem4218

2 жыл бұрын

Not underrated, I think. I had rather a crush on him when I was young.

@VLind-uk6mb

Жыл бұрын

@@eshaibraheem4218 I still have a crush on him, and I ain't young any more! If I see his name on a cast list, I consider the film worth a look. He is GREAT in The League of Gentlemen, with Jack Hawkins. And in Sapphire.

The insanity of the way Oscar Wilde threw away his talents and charm, just to be victimized by someone even more careless and cruel than he.

@williamf4544

3 жыл бұрын

Happens to us gays a lot - most of us live the life of Elsie Tanner - sometimes drifting into Oscar Wilde territory to out cost

@MikeGreenwood51

3 жыл бұрын

Some clearly were of the view point that it was Mr. Wilde who was the criminal victimiser.

@SagesseNoir

3 жыл бұрын

@@MikeGreenwood51 Probably because he was the older man.

@MikeGreenwood51

3 жыл бұрын

​@@SagesseNoir How do you mean? Did you mean some clearly were of the view point that it was Mr. Wilde who was the criminal victimiser? or that Oscar Wilde was a victimiser probably because he was an older man?. I see his victimisations starting with his attempt to sue Lord Queensbury for libel for which Oscar Wilde lied to his own Lawyers stating there was no truth to any statements about his sexual sodomisations. So therefore the entire case was based on a perjurers basis where every word deneying anything he him self was stated as being was a lie.

@SagesseNoir

3 жыл бұрын

@@MikeGreenwood51 Probably they assume Wilde was the victimizer since his association was with younger men, and youth was probably seen as more vulnerable and gullible. Some people, the jury and the public, probably thought Oscar Wilde was corrupting the youth. One of his prosecutors claims that he misled Bosie to the point of influencing him to threaten to kill his father.

Wilde's friend Robbie was right. Had Wilde not filed suit against the marquess Queensberry, Wilde would not have been ruined.

@PedalToTheMetal61888

5 жыл бұрын

...sowas he intimate or not ...KZread.com... etch a sketched me ...out...jive...turkeys..!!

@fruitygarlic3601

4 жыл бұрын

@@PedalToTheMetal61888 Are you asking if Wilde and Lord Alfred's relationship was as romantic as accused? If so, definitely. So was his and Robbie's. Not sure about the etch-a-sketch thing.

@PedalToTheMetal61888

4 жыл бұрын

@@fruitygarlic3601 ...www.KZread.com...etched me out ...jive ...Turkeys- CAN"T HANDLE THE TRUTH''''

@3vimages471

3 жыл бұрын

No shit.

@SagesseNoir

3 жыл бұрын

@@fruitygarlic3601 The romantic nature of the Wilde/Bosie connection was not the issue I raised. Rather, it was how wise to file suit against Queensberry. I simply think Wilde would have fared better if he'd not filed suit. But once he filed it and the tide was clearly against him, he ought to have taken the advice of his first lawyer and his friend Robbie to leave England. He was literate in French and might have fared well in France. He could probably even have some of his plays, essays, poems and his novel translated into French. Surely there must have been a way of avoiding total ruin.

An excellent film, complete and very well constructed. Acting superb.

Wow thanks! I love Peter Finch AND James Mason!

He was ahead of his time. Great actors and a very good movie. The only people mad at you for speaking the truth are those living a lie.

This is an EXCELLENT movie!!! Haven't finished it yet but I cannot wait to see the end!!!!!!!

I can only imagine how many more great literary works Wilde might have created has he not filed that suit and ended up in prison.

@annecinturati2794

9 ай бұрын

Agree. Wild was a master of literature, too bad he lost his case. Wonder how his wife make it through life especially her sons.

@pipfox7834

9 ай бұрын

He wrote two masterpieces while in prison. The ballad of Reading Gaol is one if the most moving things ever read over the Radio, where I first heard it read aloud. A terrible beauty to it.

@SagesseNoir

9 ай бұрын

@@pipfox7834 Oh yes, I seem to have read that years ago.

This has been an incredibly enlightening movie to watch. I couldn't help but reflect upon the film "The People vs Larry Flynt" while viewing this one. The trials of Oscar Wilde and Larry Flynt book-end very well the history of the decline of acceptable moral standards in western society. "From Dorian Gray to the Tin Man" would be an apt title for this historic study. It could document how Morality in the literal sense was forced into obsolescence or when it was required to be put on the table during times of critical public discourse, it was only as a marketable commodity.

A great film and a bravura performance by the brilliant Peter Finch. He deservedly won a (posthumous) Oscar in 1977 for his performance as deranged news anchor Howard Beale in the 1976 film `Network`.

@LindaStoronsky-yk4df

5 ай бұрын

I'm mad as hell and won't take it anymore!

Robbie Ross was the true hero in Wilde's life (although the film stretches it a bit by having Ross oblivious to Wilde's homosexuality, when the two were lovers for a brief period and Ross was openly homosexual - incredibly brave for the 1890s in the UK). Ross collected all of Wilde's manuscripts and saw to their continued publication, giving all the proceeds to Wilde's children (I see his son Vyvvan was a consultant on the film). He stuck by Wilde throughout and had a major falling out with Bosie. Merlin Holland, Wilde's grandson, wrote the introduction and provided commentary for the study THE REAL TRIAL OF OSCAR WILDE: THE FIRST UNCENSORED TRANSCRIPT OF THE TRIAL OF OSCAR WILDE VS. JOHN DOUGLAS (MARQUESS OF QUEENSBERRY), 1895 (London: Fourth Estate, 2003). Fascinating reading!

@kevinfred10001

2 жыл бұрын

I don't think it was Wilde's homosexuality that Robbie was worried about. think it was his display of it. t

@stconstable

2 жыл бұрын

Ross was supposedly the first man Wilde slept with.

I've seen this movie a few times. It's very good. Wonderful acting by all. 'When I am dead and gone, I hope that it will be said, my sins were scarlet, but my books were read'. O.Wilde.

I'm surprised by Variety's critic of James Mason in the film. I think his character / the prosecutor's questioning quite wipes the floor with poor Oscar/ Peter Finch. Lionel Jeffries is beyond brilliant.

An extraordinary performance by Lionel Jefferies!

@3vimages471

2 жыл бұрын

And he was only 34 at the time.

I never get tired of this movie.

Thanks so much for uploading this, love oscar wilde 🧡💛

What a truly saddening drama about the tragic cruelty suffered in Wilde’s otherwise brilliant career, extending to the heartbreaking impacts on his entire family too. Apparently, at least as portrayed here, Oscar erroneously believed that his “High Society” notoriety made him immune to the staunch recoils of England’s then puritanical Victorian Age, and its now infamously inflexibe Protestant morals…. His ever-so-classic / ever-renowned “intellectual acrobatics” and rather “crowd-pleasing” jocularity while somewhat “talking down” to the court and jury was surely ill-fated from the gitgo, even as personally Factually Correct amidst all of its repercussive, misplaced context….. for which he paid a rather severe price. ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ will forever remain a Timeless Classic, among so many. And as exemplified here, his famous quote of “No Good Deed Goes Unpunished”…. where the Marques of Queensberry Rules may / may not apply!

@elmagodelmaryahoo

5 жыл бұрын

PS: Peter Finch was perfectly cast here.... TOO! :-)

@elmagodelmaryahoo

5 жыл бұрын

And BTW, here is another good film with Dirk Bogarde from 1961 that deals with both the public sentiment and illegality of homosexuality in Britain, where decriminalization laws finally began to change in 1967 = kzread.info/dash/bejne/pWast9aeicLLnbA.html

@blessOTMA

4 жыл бұрын

el mago indeed. That society had been generous in its praise; it would equally full in its condemnation.

@ShowalterdontlikeME

2 жыл бұрын

''The Trials of Oscar Wilde'' was a book - It was a proper history of the three criminal court cases involving Oscar Wilde - The movie bought the copyright to the successful history - The film was made in 1960 and has to pass a severe censor, so the movie implies he is homosexual - However those who read the book in 1960 knew he wasn't - He as a pederastic voyeur - He sat fully clothed in an armchair and masturbated in an armchair while Douglas raped drunken members of the working class - His trouser pockets had no linings - Douglas was a suspected murderer and a serial rapist - The belief that Oscar Wilde was homosexual is an urban myth created by the movies. P.S. The film is a wonderful film as it is consistently ''tipping it's hat'' to those who have read the book - the proper history.

The great Peter Finch! And interesting that Bosie was played by a gay actor, John Fraser. The historian Macaulay wrote of Wilde’s persecution: “We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodic fits of morality. In general, elopements, divorces, and family quarrels pass with little notice. We read the scandal, talk about it for a day, and forget it. But once in six or seven years our virtue becomes outrageous. We cannot suffer the laws of religion and decency to be violated. We must take a stand against vice. We must teach libertines that the English people appreciate the importance of domestic ties. Accordingly some unfortunate man, in no respect more depraved than hundreds whose offences have been treated with lenity, is singled out as an expiatory sacrifice. If he has children, they are to be taken from him. If he has a profession, he is to be driven from it. He is cut by the higher orders, and hissed by the lower. He is, in truth, a sort of whipping-boy, by whose vicarious agonies all the other transgressors of the same class are, it is supposed, sufficiently chastised ... . At length our anger is satiated. Our victim is ruined and heartbroken. And our virtue goes quietly to sleep for seven years more.”

@AlexandraRieloff

3 жыл бұрын

A human pathology. It still happens.

@gweilospur5877

2 жыл бұрын

A victim by today’s thinking, but not back then. We seem to be constantly trying to impose today’s morality on history.

@21stcenturyozman20

2 жыл бұрын

@@gweilospur5877 Macaulay thought so "back then".

@gweilospur5877

2 жыл бұрын

@@21stcenturyozman20 That’s because he was probably gay himself, as he never married.

@vincentperratore4395

2 жыл бұрын

Very well put!

Wilde made a huge blunder by attempting to sue Queensberry

@steveweinstein3222

6 жыл бұрын

Hubris. He was riding so high on the success of Earnest, & he'd been able to repel criticism for so long by his rapier wit that he arrogantly thought he could overcome an entire society's rigidity.

@johnc3673

6 жыл бұрын

Hektor-Vektor thanks scoop.

@starquant

4 жыл бұрын

and yet Liberace sued the papers decades later and won (even though they were right).

@carmensantos5687

4 жыл бұрын

Hektor-Vektor he sure did.

God works in mysterious ways. Wilde, an essentially kind and just man, was undone by his vanity, pride, and bad judgment in bringing the first legal action. From there, his suffered intensely, from which suffering came The Ballad of Reading Gaol and De Profundis. Reading Goal is a masterpiece of compassion, wisdom, and insight into human nature.

@harmoniabalanza

5 жыл бұрын

Gaol not goal. A long poem.

Brilliant. Thank you for uploading. Peter Finch was just as perfect as Robert Morley. Constance didn't meet him on his release, only Ada Levinson and Robbie Ross. When the verdict was handed down at the third trial, Oscar Wilde said, "And I? May I say nothing my Lord?" Lord Alfred Douglas was a manipulative, spoiled brat and truly was the downfall of OW. Couldn't they have found an actor that looked more like the Marquess? Still amazing though.

@JackRussell-nk3fe

9 ай бұрын

John Frazer was openly gay in real life. I guess a lot of young actors, gay or straight, in 1960 would have turned down the role (guilt by association) but JF didn't give a damn.. The late Scott Finch or Andrew Ray would have made a perfect Bosie. The following year, the producers had to look for a long time for somebody to play Melvyn Farr's wife in Victim , but the great Sylvia Sims took it on, when nobody else would. JF looks more the part than the Bosie who was cast in the Robert Morley version - but I love the Morely version for Alexander Knox and dear old Henry Oscar who played Judge Alfred Wills in the final trial - that curt dismissal at the end of the trial as he waved Wilde away was just so in seeing with the role.

Peter Finch was one of the most amazing Actor who ever lived.....watching on The Trials of Oscar Wilde ( he deserved an Oscar for this Play) make you became an Actor yourself

@LindaStoronsky-yk4df

5 ай бұрын

Neither Peter Finch or Robert Morley displayed the wit and charm Oscar was supposed to possess. I can only think of Peter Otoole as Oscar.

Wow! What an incredible movie! I had no idea!? The Portrait of Dorian Grey is one of my favorites! I never heard about this trial! Great acting!

@VLind-uk6mb

Жыл бұрын

Picture, not Portrait.

Thank you for this wonderful film , and what about the acting, just perfect .

Thank you for this piece of great history ,for sharing with us all . God Bless and stay safe .

@Sebastianmelmothuk

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your Concern..It was a duty towards Human History, perhaps we may need more Video like this to feed our Mind, Soul and Heart instead of wasting our Life on Facebook & Instagram. May God bless you and your family Heather. Gianni Telesca Rm The Lakes Restaurant Burgh le Marsh Lincolnshire Uk

Oscar Wilde is my hero and i shall love him until death !!!.

@MrPaultopp

5 жыл бұрын

Billy Duncan ...like he knows that

@bdavis4075

4 жыл бұрын

@@MrPaultopp ..you know you're wrong for that. Right? Right? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@melindalemmon2149

4 жыл бұрын

He had a deathbed conversion after hearing the horrid truth of his friends contempt for all the boys he used.

I have never understood why it should be any of my business which sexual orientation a person is, as long as there are consenting adults involved. Oscar Wilde was one of the greatest, wittiest, eloquent, vain authors (and fashion guides) of his time. Homosexuality isn't for me, but it certainly is neither a sickness nor a disease nor a choice a person has. It is simply the way a person is. The suffering of his wife (and consequently his children who where left to be orphans after Constances early death) is another matter. But nobody has appointed me judge over other people.

@patriciakraner5059

6 жыл бұрын

Marlies Lübker , Oscar Wilde chose to hurt a lady that loved him very much and his two children. He should of been honest to all, stayed single and led the life he really wanted. Homosexuality. But he wanted everything in life given to him and given frankly without a " sweat" on his part. He used people. There are many people in this world who use people, regardless of their sexual choices.

@gaylandbarney2231

5 жыл бұрын

Marlies Good for you , you sound decent , ACTUALLY moral , and thoughtful......only to be answered by those who would burn witches

@grandmalovesmebest

5 жыл бұрын

Awww. You are sweet. But I agree. Only I'd take it further saying EVERYONE should keep his nose out of other ppl sex lives. Period.

I wasn't aware of this film, thank you for this, it was really good!

I saw this movie many years ago and moved me so much ,now I understand what it was about it moved me even more😔

Alfred Lord Douglas became rather a raddled wretch in later years, destroyed by a series of rather ill-advised legal actions, and ended up penniless in a small flat in a block in Hove. One of these failed court cases was against Arthur Ransome, author of the first biography of Oscar Wilde to be published after Oscar's death. Ransome had apparently suggested that Wilde ultimately blamed Douglas for his misfortunes. Unfortunately for Douglas, Wilde's last great work, De Profundis, written in prison, was given in evidence. It turned out that there were several sections Robbie Ross, Wilde's literary executor, had removed for publication for reasons of decency - in court the whole thing was read out unredacted, doubtless to Douglas's shock.Another interesting sidenote is that the calling card Queensbury left at the Albemarle still exists, and I saw it a couple of years ago at a Queer British Art exhibition in London. The green door of Oscar Wilde's Reading jail cell was also there.

@detroit124

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this Johnny very interesting.

@DWKThedogbreaths

3 жыл бұрын

Queensbury's father had terrible handwriting and spelling, the card looks like its written by an ape (scrap that, apes are lovely creatures).

@myleshagar9722

3 жыл бұрын

Wilde, Lord Alfred and his father all converted to Catholicism in the end. Weird.

@robscheuermann5847

3 жыл бұрын

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@andrewjdaniels7087

3 жыл бұрын

Johnny, would you say that Lord Alfred was an obsessive? As a young man he was obsessed with teenaged boys, then with the getting the upper hand over his father, his Catholcism, which was manic, litigation and besmirching the reputation of not just Wilde but also those associated with him like Robbie Ross. Oscar was just collateral damage it seems. I wonder whether we should think of Bosie as a vile person, or feel sorry that he suffered from the mental health issues that so plagued his family. Those late photos of him are like Dorian Gray without a portrait.

Wilde should not have filed that suit. That's what Queensberry wanted him to do, and Oscar Wilde walked right into the trap. Even if Wilde were absolutely STRAIGHT such a trial would have damaged him even if he had won it.

@magicchirp1714

3 жыл бұрын

I read somewhere that bosie encouraged him to do so even with his friends stopping him. In other words I blame it all on bosie he ruined Wilde life

@SagesseNoir

3 жыл бұрын

@@magicchirp1714 Somehow that does not surprise me. With friends like "Bosie" who needs enemies?

This beautiful film was preceded by another version of the same , I saw both and this film was by far the best though sadly it was publicly overshadowed by the former film . I saw this film when it first came out and so surprised and pleased to find it on youtube , thank you So Much Gianni Telesca for sharing .

@glen7318

2 жыл бұрын

I'eve never seen htat one with Rob Morley

Gianni Thanks so much, for taking the time. It was lovely...

What a brilliant gambit by the Marquess! Sadly Wilde fell into the trap and ruined his life due hubris. Truly revenge is a dish best served cold.

Judge him from his own words , as he stated very clearly and quite succinctly, that if one kept on telling the truth, then one was bound to be found out . So his contempt for abused children finds him out when he sniffs that " little boys should be obscene and not heard " The man was hiding in plain view . He knew what he was saying . And he meant what he said .