Which film version of the Oscar Wilde is your favorite? 1944? 1986? 1996?
I’m actually partial to the 1996 film as Patrick Stewart is the perfect embodiment of scares yet endearment. The 1986 version is too silly.
How can you top Charles Laughton AND Margaret O’Brien in the same movie?
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | July 24, 2024 11:15 PM |
Please. There are no tops on Datalounge, R1.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | July 25, 2024 12:39 AM |
OP, I like the Patrick Stewart version, but my favorite is the 1998 one with Ian Richardson (the original Francis Urquhart on 'House of Cards'). It also stars Celia Imrie and Sir Donald Sinden. Cameos by Pauline Quirke and Ian McNiece.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | July 25, 2024 6:54 AM |
R3 I haven’t seen that one and must check it out!
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | July 25, 2024 2:55 PM |
I have a dim memory of a version I saw on television in the mid-1970s, the first adaptation of the story to which I'd ever been exposed. It has been my long-lost favorite. Over the years I've looked for it, and it never turned up, 'till now. I'm pretty sure this is the one, made for television in the UK in 1975, starring David Niven; how I came to see it on television in the US, I've no idea, unless PBS once aired it.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | July 25, 2024 7:55 PM |
There was also a musical version, from the ABC STAGE '67 TV series, starring Michael Redgrave and Peter Noone, with a score by Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock (of FIDDLER ON THE ROOF fame).
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | July 25, 2024 8:03 PM |
There is also the ABC STAGE '67 musical version, with Michael Redgrave and Peter Noone, songs by FIDDLER ON THE ROOF's Bock & Harnick.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | July 25, 2024 8:05 PM |
They did a new mini-series version which has been airing on PBS this summer with Anthony Head as the Ghost, but I don't think it's very good.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | July 26, 2024 6:47 AM |
Why no black versions?
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | July 26, 2024 8:56 AM |