It encompasses sentiments and all elements: mystery, intrigue, love lost, friendships, regrets, and fear. It's another B/W classics gem, well-cut and impeccably presented. The film is essentially in Black and White, with only the specific content of the picture of Dorian Gray in color when we see it through Dorian's eyes. The events all happen in a seemingly civil manner, immersed in the society of the rich. George Sanders is the cynical callous Lord Henry Wotton. The bet between the characters of George Sanders and Hurd Hatfield brought to mind the cruel intentions of Neil LaBute's 1997 'In the Company of Men'. A very young Angela Lansbury, after her debut in George Cuckor's 1944 'Gaslight', portrays the innocent young actress Sibyl Vane from the poor side of town. The story describes how Dorian Gray spends his life henceforth and the consequences that entail. Conscience, no longer he has - the picture took it on. Imagine that as time goes by, he will always stay the same rich attractive young man that he is - never grow old, while the picture will take on the changes - his soul and character. I'd give my soul for that.' Dorian Gray's obsession with youth became eternal youth. Such is a 'deadly' wish of the main character, Dorian Gray: 'If only the picture (a portrait of Dorian Gray) can change, and I can always be as I am now. Definitely has an element of intrigue - 'a painting with a life of its own'. It's costume drama, story began in London 1886.

Or is it mind over matter? The power of a mysterious painting depicted in this timeless tale of Oscar Wilde's imagination - probing the depth of life's meaning.

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