i buy a tape of this film base on the recommendation of other imdb user and have to say that i be very disappointed . i be a college professor and show this movie to my class while they unanimously vote that it a terrible film . i guess that if you like the old dark shadow series and then maybe you will like this . ( i like dark shadow when i be a kid in the 70 and but now i think it just awful ) . the first half hour or so at least have the virtue of some fidelity to wilde novel . after that and the story veers wildly off course and at least a compare with the 1945 mgm version ( which win two oscar ) . nigel davenport a lord henry be really about the only thing watchable in the whole production . a lot of the other acting be bad and the music be melodramatic and and look of the film be terrible . actually and it not a film at all it be obviously shoot on video and have that characteristically claustrophobic bbc look about it . the opening scene be particularly poorly lit and the woman costume be terrible ( the men look all right ) and and a lot of the character include dorian seem to have 1970s rather than victorian hairstyle . the movie do well to include a lot of wilde dialog and but the voice over narration in the voice of dorian contain a lot of rubbish that directly contradict wilde character . i be a big oscar wilde fan and and i fear that he must have roll over violently in his grave when this monstrosity be make . it only improvement over the 1945 version be that the homosexual subtext be definitely more apparent and without be heavy hand . i haven not see either of the more recent version and but if one be interested in see the story well tell and i would have to recommend the 1945 mgm black and white over this one .