Forbidden Passion: The Oscar Wilde Movie

Forbidden Passion: The Oscar Wilde Movie

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Status

Released

Release Date

Mar 26, 1985

Runtime

2h 0m

Original Title

Forbidden Passion: The Oscar Wilde Movie

Director

Henry Herbert

Description

As in earlier Oscar Wilde biopics, this version preoccupies itself with the homosexuality scandal involving Lord Alfred Douglas and his lordship's political powerful father, the Marquis of Queensbury. Arrested for corrupting Lord Douglas' morals, Wilde spends a debilitating five years in Reading Gaol, emerging a shattered shell of his former self