WEBVTT 00:00:17.579 --> 00:00:24.539 Come in. Welcome. I'm E .G. Marshall. Welcome 00:00:24.539 --> 00:00:28.260 to the world of, no, no, not your imagination 00:00:28.260 --> 00:00:32.259 this time, but that of a man, a writer, who had 00:00:32.259 --> 00:00:35.619 more than enough for both of us. This time then, 00:00:35.679 --> 00:00:39.340 I bid you relax, let your imagination take a 00:00:39.340 --> 00:00:42.700 holiday, as I bring you not only a story of horror, 00:00:42.780 --> 00:00:46.549 but of wit and brilliance. Oscar Wilde's... the 00:00:46.549 --> 00:00:51.409 picture of Dorian Gray. But the portrait of you, 00:00:51.570 --> 00:00:54.450 Dorian, the portrait I painted of you, it is 00:00:54.450 --> 00:00:58.270 hideous. Dorian, what does this mean? It means 00:00:58.270 --> 00:01:01.770 that the wish, the frightful wish I made in your 00:01:01.770 --> 00:01:05.409 studio 18 months ago was granted impossible. 00:01:06.049 --> 00:01:08.709 The room is damp, mildew has got into the canvas. 00:01:09.269 --> 00:01:11.890 The paints I used had some mineral poison in 00:01:11.890 --> 00:01:14.430 them. I tell you the thing is impossible. This 00:01:14.430 --> 00:01:18.400 is the face of of a monster. Yes, Hallward. The 00:01:18.400 --> 00:01:31.700 face of a monster. The face of my soul. Our mystery 00:01:31.700 --> 00:01:35.439 drama, The Picture of Dorian Gray, was especially 00:01:35.439 --> 00:01:38.379 adapted from the Oscar Wilde classic for the 00:01:38.379 --> 00:01:42.099 Mystery Theater by George Lother and stars Nick 00:01:42.099 --> 00:01:56.670 Pryor. I'll be back shortly with Act One. Nothing 00:01:56.670 --> 00:02:01.189 is new under the sun. Women's lib is as old as 00:02:01.189 --> 00:02:04.150 the Greeks. And the vaunted liberality of our 00:02:04.150 --> 00:02:07.569 times, you know, do your own thing. Live today, 00:02:07.810 --> 00:02:10.870 pay tomorrow. Whatever is pleasurable is right. 00:02:11.449 --> 00:02:14.069 Was more than anticipated by a certain Victorian 00:02:14.069 --> 00:02:18.710 named Oscar Wilde, who in 1891 wrote the picture 00:02:18.710 --> 00:02:22.879 of Dorian Gray. Come with me now to the London 00:02:22.879 --> 00:02:25.939 studio of the celebrated portrait painter Basil 00:02:25.939 --> 00:02:29.319 Hallward. A handsome young man, Dorian Gray, 00:02:29.500 --> 00:02:32.539 is having his portrait painted as he chats with 00:02:32.539 --> 00:02:35.879 Lord Henry Watten, a rather dissolute, depraved 00:02:35.879 --> 00:02:38.719 man about town. Please don't move about so much, 00:02:38.960 --> 00:02:40.840 Dorian, and don't pay any attention to what Lord 00:02:40.840 --> 00:02:43.759 Henry says. He has a very bad influence on people. 00:02:44.099 --> 00:02:46.719 Have you, Lord Henry, a bad influence on people? 00:02:46.939 --> 00:02:49.360 There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. 00:02:49.500 --> 00:02:54.550 Gray. All influence is immoral. Oh, why? Because 00:02:54.550 --> 00:02:57.289 to influence a person is to give him one's own 00:02:57.289 --> 00:03:00.870 soul. He does not think his own thoughts or burn 00:03:00.870 --> 00:03:04.289 with his natural passions. Ah, and so when one 00:03:04.289 --> 00:03:07.629 person influences another, if you were to influence 00:03:07.629 --> 00:03:10.430 me, for example, your individuality would be 00:03:10.430 --> 00:03:13.590 to that degree destroyed. Just turn your head 00:03:13.590 --> 00:03:16.110 a little more to the right, Dorian. Well, I doubt 00:03:16.110 --> 00:03:17.909 if you could influence me very much, Sir Henry. 00:03:17.930 --> 00:03:22.469 I'm told you're a very... Wicked man wicked I 00:03:22.469 --> 00:03:25.550 only believe in living my life fully completely 00:03:25.550 --> 00:03:29.569 and giving expression to every thought Reality 00:03:29.569 --> 00:03:34.370 to every dream Most men believe in virtue. I 00:03:34.370 --> 00:03:38.729 believe in sin In sin Dorian don't move please, 00:03:38.789 --> 00:03:41.650 but of course the only way to get rid of a temptation 00:03:41.650 --> 00:03:45.909 is to yield to it Provocative thought Lord Henry 00:03:45.909 --> 00:03:50.250 the truth nothing more You mr. Grey You yourself, 00:03:50.449 --> 00:03:53.750 a fresh youth of twenty summers. You've already 00:03:53.750 --> 00:03:57.169 had passions that made you afraid. Thoughts that 00:03:57.169 --> 00:04:00.590 filled you with terror. Daydreams and sleeping 00:04:00.590 --> 00:04:03.330 dreams whose mere memory might bring a flush 00:04:03.330 --> 00:04:07.229 of shame to your cheeks. Perhaps. Take my advice. 00:04:08.009 --> 00:04:11.310 Live while you're young. Youth is the one thing 00:04:11.310 --> 00:04:13.969 worth having. Oh, I don't feel that way, Lord 00:04:13.969 --> 00:04:17.089 Henry. Because you are young. Have your youth. 00:04:17.569 --> 00:04:19.750 But some day when you're old and wrinkled and 00:04:19.750 --> 00:04:23.290 ugly, when thought has seared your forehead with 00:04:23.290 --> 00:04:26.370 its lines, and passion branded your lips with 00:04:26.370 --> 00:04:30.089 its hideous fires, then you will feel it. You 00:04:30.089 --> 00:04:33.230 will feel it terribly. You talk too much, Harry. 00:04:33.490 --> 00:04:35.310 And frankly, I don't much care for these thoughts 00:04:35.310 --> 00:04:37.689 you're putting into Dorian's head. Well, you 00:04:37.689 --> 00:04:39.990 will not talk any longer. The portrait is finished. 00:04:40.230 --> 00:04:45.310 Come and look at it. Oh. Dorian, what is it? 00:04:45.550 --> 00:04:48.149 Why did you draw back from your portrait? Don't 00:04:48.149 --> 00:04:54.670 you like it? I like it too much. Too much. What 00:04:54.670 --> 00:04:59.089 do you mean? You have painted me as I am, but 00:04:59.089 --> 00:05:03.350 as Lord Henry just said, someday I shall be old, 00:05:03.670 --> 00:05:07.170 wrinkled, ugly. Come, Mr. Gray, don't take me 00:05:07.170 --> 00:05:10.449 too seriously. Many, many years will pass before 00:05:10.449 --> 00:05:14.199 you were old. But why should it? Be that way. 00:05:14.399 --> 00:05:17.199 Why should this portrait keep what I must lose? 00:05:18.819 --> 00:05:22.100 If it were only the other way. If the picture 00:05:22.100 --> 00:05:24.699 could change and I could always be what I am 00:05:24.699 --> 00:05:27.899 now. I'd sell myself to the devil if that could 00:05:27.899 --> 00:05:30.740 be true. The portrait! The portrait has fallen 00:05:30.740 --> 00:05:33.480 to the floor! God in heaven, Hogwarts, Lord Henry! 00:05:33.899 --> 00:05:37.139 You don't think the devil hurt me, do you? Nothing 00:05:37.139 --> 00:05:39.339 as supernatural as all that, Dorian. I've been 00:05:39.339 --> 00:05:41.240 meaning to fix a cracked leg in that easel for 00:05:41.240 --> 00:05:43.259 weeks, and it finally broke, that's all. Your 00:05:43.259 --> 00:05:45.540 portrait's damaged? No, not in the least. Are 00:05:45.540 --> 00:05:50.300 you, Mr. Gray? I? Damaged? Did you mean what 00:05:50.300 --> 00:05:52.959 you said about selling your soul to the devil? 00:05:54.439 --> 00:06:00.360 I... I'm not sure. But you never know. If the 00:06:00.360 --> 00:06:04.420 portrait could grow old instead of me, I... I 00:06:04.420 --> 00:06:17.079 think I might. I... I really think I might. Big 00:06:17.079 --> 00:06:19.939 pardon, Mr. Breen. Yes, Parker. What is it? Miss 00:06:19.939 --> 00:06:22.680 Breen calling, sir. At this hour of the morning. 00:06:22.720 --> 00:06:25.339 It's not yet ten o 'clock. Well, show her in, 00:06:25.519 --> 00:06:27.660 Parker. Thank you, Parker, but I'm already in. 00:06:27.759 --> 00:06:31.980 Yes, ma 'am. My darling, this is indeed a surprise. 00:06:32.240 --> 00:06:35.180 An unpleasant one, Dorian. Oh, my dear, we're 00:06:35.180 --> 00:06:37.779 engaged to be married. How could seeing you be 00:06:37.779 --> 00:06:40.319 unpleasant? Well, since you haven't seen me in 00:06:40.319 --> 00:06:43.879 over a week and have broken two engagements with 00:06:43.879 --> 00:06:47.180 me, I thought it might be. Oh, no, not at all. 00:06:47.439 --> 00:06:50.699 It's just that I've been terribly busy. Come 00:06:50.699 --> 00:06:53.600 now. Don't frown at me like that. Give me a kiss 00:06:53.600 --> 00:06:57.319 to show you forgive me. Oh, Dorian, you smell 00:06:57.319 --> 00:07:01.920 of brandy. I, uh... I had a drink, yes. So early 00:07:01.920 --> 00:07:03.819 in the day? Well, I wasn't feeling well. I thought 00:07:03.819 --> 00:07:09.000 it might make me feel better. Dorian? What's 00:07:09.000 --> 00:07:14.660 happened? Happened? You've changed. You're not 00:07:14.660 --> 00:07:17.899 the same man I fell in love with, consented to 00:07:17.899 --> 00:07:21.160 marry. You haven't been the same since that portrait 00:07:21.160 --> 00:07:23.240 of you over the fireplace came into this house. 00:07:23.480 --> 00:07:25.720 That's a silly thing to say. You're certainly 00:07:25.720 --> 00:07:29.370 not blaming my portrait for what I do. No. I 00:07:29.370 --> 00:07:32.149 simply date the change in you from the day it 00:07:32.149 --> 00:07:34.389 was finished. But there is no change in me. You 00:07:34.389 --> 00:07:36.949 only imagine... Did I imagine you're not calling 00:07:36.949 --> 00:07:40.370 on me in a week? Did I imagine you're ignoring 00:07:40.370 --> 00:07:44.750 my messages and the stories that I'm hearing 00:07:44.750 --> 00:07:49.990 about you? Do I imagine them? What stories? Stories 00:07:49.990 --> 00:07:53.990 concerning you and Lord Henry Watton. Stories 00:07:53.990 --> 00:07:59.209 so coarse, so vile that I... I dare not repeat 00:07:59.209 --> 00:08:02.889 them. He is anything but wicked, Sybil. He lives 00:08:02.889 --> 00:08:05.509 differently from most others, that's all. He 00:08:05.509 --> 00:08:07.649 believes in doing what you want to do, in living 00:08:07.649 --> 00:08:10.209 freely, without constraint. Do you believe in 00:08:10.209 --> 00:08:16.149 that too? I don't quite know. Dorian, darling, 00:08:16.709 --> 00:08:21.310 it's one thing to be free, another to be depraved. 00:08:22.269 --> 00:08:26.850 You think me depraved? I think that you're easily 00:08:26.850 --> 00:08:30.850 led. and that Lord Henry is leading you into 00:08:30.850 --> 00:08:34.669 a life you'll have reason to regret. Oh, Dorian, 00:08:34.769 --> 00:08:36.649 don't look at me as if you hated me. I'm only 00:08:36.649 --> 00:08:38.049 saying these things to you because I love you. 00:08:38.129 --> 00:08:43.509 I love you deeply, devotedly, passionately. You're 00:08:43.509 --> 00:08:47.769 so precious to me. So precious I think I'd die 00:08:47.769 --> 00:08:51.190 if anything happened to you. Oh, for... Forgive 00:08:51.190 --> 00:08:54.850 me, Sybil. You are just as precious to me, as 00:08:54.850 --> 00:08:57.370 precious as life itself. Oh, Dorian, my dear. 00:08:57.409 --> 00:09:00.450 Oh, sweetheart. Are you free this evening? Can 00:09:00.450 --> 00:09:02.850 you dine with me? Of course. Then I'll call for 00:09:02.850 --> 00:09:05.649 you at eight, child. Oh, wonderful. I'll spend 00:09:05.649 --> 00:09:12.090 the entire day looking forward... What? That's 00:09:12.090 --> 00:09:17.110 odd. What? Your portrait. Odd? What's odd about 00:09:17.110 --> 00:09:21.149 it? This is only the second time I've seen it, 00:09:21.149 --> 00:09:24.210 but it seemed to me that the first time I saw 00:09:24.210 --> 00:09:26.870 it, it seemed that it was a superb likeness. 00:09:26.870 --> 00:09:28.970 Oh, it is. It is. Basil Holwood is one of the 00:09:28.970 --> 00:09:30.870 most brilliant portrait painters in all of Europe. 00:09:30.990 --> 00:09:33.870 Yes, there's no doubt of that. But there's something 00:09:33.870 --> 00:09:36.570 a little wrong with the mouth. Darling, there's 00:09:36.570 --> 00:09:38.590 always something a little wrong with the mouth. 00:09:39.230 --> 00:09:43.750 Be serious. Your mouth is gentle and sensitive, 00:09:44.529 --> 00:09:47.889 almost tender. And the mouth of the portrait... 00:09:48.909 --> 00:09:53.570 Just see it. It has almost a cool look about 00:09:53.570 --> 00:09:56.169 it. Nonsense. It must be the light. No, I think 00:09:56.169 --> 00:09:57.470 it's more than that. No, you imagine things. 00:09:57.590 --> 00:10:12.809 Tonight at eight. Dorian? Oh, Dorian. I knew 00:10:12.809 --> 00:10:15.389 that was you turning into Bond Street. Oh, hello, 00:10:15.549 --> 00:10:18.649 Basil. How are you? Let me look at you. Oh, by 00:10:18.649 --> 00:10:20.509 heaven, you're the handsomest young Hellion in 00:10:20.509 --> 00:10:23.230 all of London. Hellion? There's a good deal of 00:10:23.230 --> 00:10:26.110 talk going on round about your escapades, Dorian. 00:10:26.470 --> 00:10:28.750 Yours and Lord Henry. I think it's called sowing 00:10:28.750 --> 00:10:31.669 one's wild oats, Basil. Nothing more. I'm not 00:10:31.669 --> 00:10:33.629 sure. You certainly don't look as if you've been 00:10:33.629 --> 00:10:36.710 leading a dissipated life. Clear eyes, healthy 00:10:36.710 --> 00:10:39.490 skin. Ah, you delight my painter's eye, Dorian. 00:10:39.889 --> 00:10:41.529 But, of course, that's why I wanted to do your 00:10:41.529 --> 00:10:43.990 portrait in the first place. And why I want your 00:10:43.990 --> 00:10:48.909 permission to exhibit it. Exhibit it? Yes. I'm 00:10:48.909 --> 00:10:52.269 afraid I can't. You can't? Let's say I prefer 00:10:52.269 --> 00:10:58.129 not to. Oh, I see. Well, it's yours, of course, 00:10:58.149 --> 00:10:59.690 and you have every right to do with it as you 00:10:59.690 --> 00:11:02.629 wish. And I don't wish it to be exhibited. No 00:11:02.629 --> 00:11:05.750 hard feelings, I hope. Why, no, no, of course 00:11:05.750 --> 00:11:09.330 not. Dorian, will you be home later in the day? 00:11:09.929 --> 00:11:12.789 Yes, why? Well, it needs to be varnished, the 00:11:12.789 --> 00:11:14.909 portrait. It's more than a month now since I 00:11:14.909 --> 00:11:16.909 finished it. Time to give it a protective coating. 00:11:17.509 --> 00:11:21.950 Shall we say four o 'clock? Well, shall we? I'm 00:11:21.950 --> 00:11:23.889 afraid you've forced me to tell you something. 00:11:24.350 --> 00:11:27.669 I'd rather not reveal to you, Basil. Oh? There 00:11:27.669 --> 00:11:31.370 isn't any portrait. I destroyed it. What? Oh, 00:11:31.789 --> 00:11:34.950 you don't mean that. I do indeed. You destroyed 00:11:34.950 --> 00:11:39.590 one of my finest... In heaven's name, man, why? 00:11:39.870 --> 00:11:42.669 I... I simply didn't care for it, that's all. 00:11:42.789 --> 00:11:44.110 Well, you liked it well enough the first time 00:11:44.110 --> 00:11:46.230 you saw it. Very true, but the more I looked 00:11:46.230 --> 00:11:50.789 at it, the more I felt it wasn't me. I see that 00:11:50.789 --> 00:11:53.870 the stories about you are true. I was afraid 00:11:53.870 --> 00:11:56.389 they might be once I heard you'd become close 00:11:56.389 --> 00:11:59.090 friends with Harry Wotton. Your friend too, Basil. 00:11:59.190 --> 00:12:01.330 Yes, but I'm older than you by 20 years, Dorian, 00:12:01.350 --> 00:12:04.769 and I'm not easily led, or rather misled. I am 00:12:04.769 --> 00:12:08.230 not being misled. I'm being taught. Instructed, 00:12:08.269 --> 00:12:10.129 if you will, in what real pleasures life can 00:12:10.129 --> 00:12:16.669 hold if one will only let himself go. Remove 00:12:16.669 --> 00:12:19.669 it, sir? You heard me, Parker. I want the portrait 00:12:19.669 --> 00:12:22.350 taken down from over the fireplace and carted 00:12:22.350 --> 00:12:24.870 off to the attic. Whatever you say, sir, of course. 00:12:25.129 --> 00:12:28.149 But might I venture to suggest that if you had 00:12:28.149 --> 00:12:30.309 it placed in a different light? What has a different 00:12:30.309 --> 00:12:32.789 light to do about it? The light changes a good 00:12:32.789 --> 00:12:35.730 deal during the day, and the portrait seems to 00:12:35.730 --> 00:12:39.899 change with it. You... You've noticed the change, 00:12:40.080 --> 00:12:42.620 then? Oh, yes, sir. The changes that take place 00:12:42.620 --> 00:12:45.100 in the differing light altogether are fascinating, 00:12:45.639 --> 00:12:48.360 sir. Much as I shall be sorry to deprive you 00:12:48.360 --> 00:12:50.860 of your entertainment, Parker, have it taken 00:12:50.860 --> 00:12:53.700 to the attic. I'll do it first thing in the morning, 00:12:53.820 --> 00:12:59.740 sir. No, damn it! You'll do it now! It would 00:12:59.740 --> 00:13:03.139 seem that Dorian Gray's wish is coming true. 00:13:03.500 --> 00:13:06.580 That the portrait is beginning to show the ravages 00:13:06.580 --> 00:13:10.720 of his dissipations not he But if that is so 00:13:10.720 --> 00:13:14.360 and certainly it seems to be What price will 00:13:14.360 --> 00:13:16.919 he be forced to pay before the end is reached? 00:13:17.840 --> 00:13:20.419 Who sells his soul to the devil deals with a 00:13:20.419 --> 00:13:23.600 harsh bargainer. I'll be back shortly with act 00:13:23.600 --> 00:13:38.250 two Hearing the loss of youth, even though only 00:13:38.250 --> 00:13:41.809 20 years old, young Dorian Gray states that he 00:13:41.809 --> 00:13:44.350 would be willing to sell his soul to the devil 00:13:44.350 --> 00:13:48.230 if he could remain young always, while Basil 00:13:48.230 --> 00:13:52.009 Hallward's portrait of him grows old. Seemingly 00:13:52.009 --> 00:13:55.149 the devil has taken him at his word, for as Dorian 00:13:55.149 --> 00:13:58.269 Gray becomes more depraved and dissolute, the 00:13:58.269 --> 00:14:00.870 portrait shows the increasing ravages of the 00:14:00.870 --> 00:14:04.070 life he leads while he remains the same handsome 00:14:04.070 --> 00:14:07.419 youth. who sat for the picture some months ago. 00:14:08.019 --> 00:14:11.440 But his fiancée, Sybil Vane, is not fooled. I 00:14:11.440 --> 00:14:15.500 beg you, as you love me, Dorie, give up this 00:14:15.500 --> 00:14:19.340 sordid life, this life of gutter pleasures. How 00:14:19.340 --> 00:14:21.159 do you know what kind of life I lead, Sybil? 00:14:21.360 --> 00:14:23.799 You don't live it with me. Report of your disgusting 00:14:23.799 --> 00:14:26.320 escapades. Yours and Lord Henry's are known in 00:14:26.320 --> 00:14:29.000 every drawing room in London. If you love me, 00:14:29.000 --> 00:14:32.840 you'll give them up. Ah, but you see, that's 00:14:32.840 --> 00:14:37.909 the point. I don't love you. Don't say that, 00:14:38.129 --> 00:14:41.370 Dorian. Even if you mean it only to wound me, 00:14:41.389 --> 00:14:44.029 to strike back, don't say it. It's of no consequence 00:14:44.029 --> 00:14:46.490 to me whether I wound you or not. You're not 00:14:46.490 --> 00:14:49.269 yourself. Not myself. My dear, I am more myself 00:14:49.269 --> 00:14:51.490 than I've ever been in all my life before. In 00:14:51.490 --> 00:14:53.309 any case, I'm sufficiently myself to tell you 00:14:53.309 --> 00:14:56.169 now what for so -called reasons of decency I 00:14:56.169 --> 00:14:59.450 have not told you before. I no longer love you. 00:14:59.769 --> 00:15:02.230 In fact, Sybil, I'm through with you. Dorian! 00:15:04.320 --> 00:15:09.779 You gave me your heart, your very soul. My heart? 00:15:10.159 --> 00:15:14.100 I take back. As for my soul, it belongs to another, 00:15:14.120 --> 00:15:20.039 I'm afraid. I can't believe this. You look unchanged. 00:15:20.559 --> 00:15:24.860 You look as you've always looked. Gentle, tender, 00:15:26.200 --> 00:15:31.830 compassionate, and kind. But you are not. You're 00:15:31.830 --> 00:15:36.230 cruel and vicious and ruthlessly selfish. You've 00:15:36.230 --> 00:15:38.350 become an animal. Be grateful, then, that I'm 00:15:38.350 --> 00:15:40.070 releasing you from any obligation we may have 00:15:40.070 --> 00:15:42.870 had. And please, don't be tiresome. Just go now, 00:15:42.929 --> 00:15:54.389 won't you? I... love you! Who did you say, Parker? 00:15:54.610 --> 00:15:57.490 Mr. Basil Hallward, sir. That's who I thought 00:15:57.490 --> 00:15:59.830 you said. Well, I'm already late for the opera. 00:15:59.889 --> 00:16:03.600 Tell him I'm not at home. Yes, sir. I'm sorry, 00:16:03.700 --> 00:16:06.419 Mr. Hallward, but Mr. Gray is not... Mr. Hallward, 00:16:06.559 --> 00:16:10.120 please, you can't go in there. Hallward, how 00:16:10.120 --> 00:16:12.360 dare you? I must see you. I thought you wished 00:16:12.360 --> 00:16:15.200 never to see me again. I am not here from choice, 00:16:15.360 --> 00:16:20.600 Dorian. What did you do to Sybil Vane? I? Nothing. 00:16:20.740 --> 00:16:22.600 Whatever has been done to Sybil Vane, she did 00:16:22.600 --> 00:16:24.259 to herself. What do you mean by that nonsense? 00:16:24.399 --> 00:16:26.559 Simply that I told her I no longer love her and 00:16:26.559 --> 00:16:33.340 want none other. Sybil. is dead, Dorian, by her 00:16:33.340 --> 00:16:37.679 own hand. Pity. And now, if you'll excuse me. 00:16:38.120 --> 00:16:41.059 You aren't going to the opera. Why, yes. You 00:16:41.059 --> 00:16:43.279 have just heard of the death of the woman you 00:16:43.279 --> 00:16:45.379 loved. The woman who took her own life for love 00:16:45.379 --> 00:16:48.899 of you. And you can go to the opera. Death, my 00:16:48.899 --> 00:16:52.399 dear Holwood, is a most unpleasant subject. And 00:16:52.399 --> 00:17:02.870 I live only for pleasure. Good night. Help me. 00:17:03.950 --> 00:17:06.690 Why, Mr. Dorian, sir, did you forget your key? 00:17:06.809 --> 00:17:08.690 Damn it, man. Would I be standing out here in 00:17:08.690 --> 00:17:10.410 the cold banging away at the door if I hadn't? 00:17:10.549 --> 00:17:13.730 Come in, Harry. Sir Henry, let me take your health 00:17:13.730 --> 00:17:16.789 and cloak, sir. You may go to bed, Parker. Thank 00:17:16.789 --> 00:17:22.190 you, sir. Good night. Well, and where shall we 00:17:22.190 --> 00:17:25.349 go after a brandy or two, Harry? I shall go home, 00:17:25.349 --> 00:17:30.230 I think. But the evening's young. I am not. Brandy 00:17:30.230 --> 00:17:32.869 or two, we'll revive you, and then we'll be off 00:17:32.869 --> 00:17:36.809 to... where? I'm in the mood for a pipe, so... 00:17:36.809 --> 00:17:40.470 No, open for me tonight, Dorian. Ah, come along 00:17:40.470 --> 00:17:43.529 now. We'll go to that little dive down in Wapping 00:17:43.529 --> 00:17:47.490 by the dock. No, not tonight. But you can't ask 00:17:47.490 --> 00:17:51.390 me to go alone? I'm not asking you to go at all. 00:17:52.230 --> 00:17:55.430 Harry, what's come over you? Age, my dear fellow. 00:17:55.849 --> 00:18:00.400 I get tired these days. I am growing old, Dorian. 00:18:00.799 --> 00:18:04.039 A life of pleasure does exact payment. Though 00:18:04.039 --> 00:18:06.339 I must say, you look as if you keep up with your 00:18:06.339 --> 00:18:09.359 payments easily. I have no complaints. How do 00:18:09.359 --> 00:18:12.440 you do it? In the last six months, since we first 00:18:12.440 --> 00:18:16.140 met in Hallward Studio, we have indulged ourselves 00:18:16.140 --> 00:18:20.819 in every form of vice, every variety of sin, 00:18:21.319 --> 00:18:24.660 giving full vent to our passions, and yet, look 00:18:24.660 --> 00:18:28.140 at me. I have aged 20 years in these six months 00:18:28.140 --> 00:18:31.000 keeping up with you. But you, you are as fresh 00:18:31.000 --> 00:18:33.619 and healthy and young as ever you were. How do 00:18:33.619 --> 00:18:37.980 you do it? Shall I show you my secret? Show me? 00:18:39.119 --> 00:18:44.240 I keep a diary. A rather remarkable diary, Harry. 00:18:45.220 --> 00:18:48.400 In it is recorded every single action of mine 00:18:48.400 --> 00:18:54.400 since... since that fatal day. Fatal day? The 00:18:54.400 --> 00:18:57.309 day we met. I thought you were grateful for our 00:18:57.309 --> 00:19:01.230 meeting. Why do you say fatal day? Come and read 00:19:01.230 --> 00:19:12.029 my diary and you'll see. Bring your brandy. All 00:19:12.029 --> 00:19:14.170 these stairs, Dorian. Where are you taking me? 00:19:14.250 --> 00:19:17.829 The attic. Keep your diary in the attic. You'll 00:19:17.829 --> 00:19:24.660 see. Here we are. Wait a moment. Well, I light 00:19:24.660 --> 00:19:32.359 a candle. All right, Harry. There. In that corner. 00:19:32.859 --> 00:19:35.519 I can't see a thing. Too dark. Too many shadows. 00:19:36.019 --> 00:19:39.880 It's a dark diary, Harry. And it has many shadows. 00:19:40.420 --> 00:19:46.619 Here. Take this candle. Now. Go forward. Good 00:19:46.619 --> 00:19:50.259 Lord! I thought you'd be shocked, Harry. Shocked? 00:19:50.740 --> 00:19:54.809 I'm shattered. Where did you get this? Did this 00:19:54.809 --> 00:19:58.349 hideous painting? Basil Hallward. Impossible. 00:19:59.170 --> 00:20:01.990 Basil never painted anything as unholy, ungodly 00:20:01.990 --> 00:20:04.809 as this. Well, really, he didn't. I did. You? 00:20:05.029 --> 00:20:09.049 And you. Dorian, I am tiring quickly of your 00:20:09.049 --> 00:20:12.049 veiled answers. What is this thing? It is a portrait 00:20:12.049 --> 00:20:15.029 done by Basil Hallward. It is the portrait of 00:20:15.029 --> 00:20:21.410 Dorian Gray. Of you? This? Is the portrait he 00:20:21.410 --> 00:20:26.750 finished that day? It was. It no longer is. I 00:20:26.750 --> 00:20:30.809 don't understand. What has happened here? What, 00:20:30.890 --> 00:20:34.849 indeed? Don't you tell me. What? I made a wish. 00:20:35.349 --> 00:20:38.390 In Hallward Studio, you remember? No. I said 00:20:38.390 --> 00:20:41.769 I would willingly sell my soul to the devil if 00:20:41.769 --> 00:20:45.049 I could remain forever youthful. No matter what 00:20:45.049 --> 00:20:47.410 excesses of physical pleasure I indulged in. 00:20:47.869 --> 00:20:52.920 And only this portrait aged. Yes. Now I remember, 00:20:53.259 --> 00:20:57.799 yes. The devil heard. And remembered. Even though 00:20:57.799 --> 00:21:03.000 you did not. This is incredible. So have been 00:21:03.000 --> 00:21:05.460 the vile delights you revealed to me, Harry. 00:21:06.039 --> 00:21:09.859 The gutter platoes as Sibyl Turnal. Sibyl Vane, 00:21:10.039 --> 00:21:14.779 your fiancée? Yes. She's dead, Harry. Oh, no. 00:21:14.839 --> 00:21:18.859 Ah, yes. And by her own hands. She was silent. 00:21:19.500 --> 00:21:23.769 Why? Why? You're such a lovely thing, fresh as 00:21:23.769 --> 00:21:27.569 a rose, innocent as a new fallen snowflake. You 00:21:27.569 --> 00:21:30.509 break my heart to tell me this. Why would she 00:21:30.509 --> 00:21:34.349 have done such a thing? Well, she didn't. I did. 00:21:34.529 --> 00:21:39.230 You? And again, you. Damn enough of this! I say, 00:21:39.349 --> 00:21:42.609 what in hell's name are you giving at? I think 00:21:42.609 --> 00:21:46.930 the truth. What truth? That you were wrong. Tragically 00:21:46.930 --> 00:21:49.910 wrong. You said that day. That day in Basil's 00:21:49.910 --> 00:21:54.190 studio. The body sins once, and has done with 00:21:54.190 --> 00:21:57.730 its sin. For action is a mode of purification. 00:21:58.589 --> 00:22:02.789 Oh, Harry! Harry, how wrong you were! Not wrong. 00:22:03.910 --> 00:22:08.990 Beaten, whipped, vanquished, conquered by my 00:22:08.990 --> 00:22:13.470 own vices. And you led me into a life of sin. 00:22:13.609 --> 00:22:18.369 Led who? Led you wanted it. I tell you truly 00:22:18.369 --> 00:22:21.890 that I have never been so appalled by such viciousness 00:22:21.890 --> 00:22:27.109 as I found in you. You said... That day, you 00:22:27.109 --> 00:22:30.569 said... The only way to get rid of temptation 00:22:30.569 --> 00:22:33.549 is to yield to it. But I might have added that 00:22:33.549 --> 00:22:36.529 the only way to overcome temptation is to fight 00:22:36.529 --> 00:22:39.190 it. What are you holding there in your hand? 00:22:39.930 --> 00:22:42.190 I can't see in the candlelight. What? A knife. 00:22:43.069 --> 00:22:47.460 What are you going to do with it? Kill you. Why 00:22:47.460 --> 00:22:53.160 you deserve to die or put another way You don't 00:22:53.160 --> 00:22:57.599 deserve to live You will never learn with you 00:22:57.599 --> 00:23:01.359 Life isn't something you deserve. It's a burden. 00:23:01.460 --> 00:23:05.519 You must carry and be grateful to me Harry I 00:23:05.519 --> 00:23:18.109 am about to relieve you of your a good deed well 00:23:18.109 --> 00:23:23.109 done do you not agree portrait speak to me my 00:23:23.109 --> 00:23:27.890 likeness my soul have i not done well to rid 00:23:27.890 --> 00:23:34.569 the world of this creature speak i tell you speak 00:23:34.569 --> 00:23:46.460 oh lord what's this the hands Hands of the portrait, 00:23:46.940 --> 00:23:52.059 bloodied. One with the blood of Harry, but the 00:23:52.059 --> 00:24:00.319 other, ah yes, Sybil. Poor dear, innocent Sybil. 00:24:01.759 --> 00:24:08.920 Oh Lord, I fall on my knees and beg you. Forgive 00:24:08.920 --> 00:24:32.579 me, forgive me. I knew not what I did. How much 00:24:32.579 --> 00:24:46.799 more! How much more! How much more, indeed! Why 00:24:46.799 --> 00:24:49.759 is it that the pleasure of minutes must be paid 00:24:49.759 --> 00:24:54.400 for in hours? As you sow, so shall you reap. 00:24:55.160 --> 00:24:59.180 Is that it? It appears that way. Well, Dorian 00:24:59.180 --> 00:25:02.539 Gray sowed much seed. And his reaping of the 00:25:02.539 --> 00:25:06.460 harvest was not yet over, as we'll hear when 00:25:06.460 --> 00:25:20.779 I return shortly with Act 3. The mills of the 00:25:20.779 --> 00:25:25.720 gods grind slowly, but they grind exceeding fine, 00:25:26.339 --> 00:25:29.460 as they did and were yet to do for Dorian Gray. 00:25:30.320 --> 00:25:33.839 See him as he sits now, near three in the morning, 00:25:34.339 --> 00:25:38.339 in the library of his London house. A youth uncommonly 00:25:38.339 --> 00:25:41.339 handsome, not a line in his attractive face. 00:25:41.779 --> 00:25:45.140 The personification of young innocence. Yet in 00:25:45.140 --> 00:25:49.000 the attic above stands the portrait of not him, 00:25:49.500 --> 00:25:53.720 but his soul. A soul made hideous by unmentionable 00:25:53.720 --> 00:25:56.960 sins. Oh Basil, I am grateful to you for coming. 00:25:57.099 --> 00:25:59.440 I cannot tell you how grateful you should be. 00:25:59.939 --> 00:26:02.339 Candidly, I don't know why I came, but the message 00:26:02.339 --> 00:26:05.099 you sent with Parker, well, I'd be inhuman not 00:26:05.099 --> 00:26:07.200 to answer such a plea, even from the likes of 00:26:07.200 --> 00:26:09.000 you. Sit down, let me give you a brandy. No. 00:26:09.920 --> 00:26:11.519 Now tell me what you want of me and be quick 00:26:11.519 --> 00:26:14.079 about it. Oh, I need your help. I am desperate. 00:26:14.299 --> 00:26:16.519 So I gathered from your message. Will you help 00:26:16.519 --> 00:26:18.900 me? I should not be here at three in the morning 00:26:18.900 --> 00:26:22.279 otherwise. Yes, I'll help you if I can, though 00:26:22.279 --> 00:26:25.240 you don't deserve it. I'll do it for the friendship 00:26:25.240 --> 00:26:29.339 we once had. Well, I... I went to the opera tonight 00:26:29.339 --> 00:26:32.119 with Sir Henry. You forget I brought you the 00:26:32.119 --> 00:26:34.660 news of Sibyl Vane's death. Oh, yes, yes, and 00:26:34.660 --> 00:26:37.279 you were scandalized, justifiably so, that I 00:26:37.279 --> 00:26:40.380 should still attend the opera. On our return 00:26:40.380 --> 00:26:46.940 here, Harry and I quarreled. And Basil, I killed 00:26:46.940 --> 00:26:49.619 him. Dorian. I stabbed him to death. At this 00:26:49.619 --> 00:26:51.519 moment, his body lies upstairs in the attic. 00:26:51.640 --> 00:26:54.519 The attic? It was there, I killed him. In a sudden 00:26:54.519 --> 00:26:56.119 fit of rage. What in the world were you doing 00:26:56.119 --> 00:27:00.839 in the attic? I had taken him there to show him 00:27:00.839 --> 00:27:04.579 my portrait. What portrait? The one you did of 00:27:04.579 --> 00:27:08.059 me. The one I... But Dorian, you told me you 00:27:08.059 --> 00:27:11.380 destroyed it. I lied. I didn't want you to exhibit 00:27:11.380 --> 00:27:14.980 it. You couldn't have in any case, but I... I 00:27:14.980 --> 00:27:17.579 didn't even want you to see it. Why in heaven's 00:27:17.579 --> 00:27:22.420 name not? You will see when we go up. You want 00:27:22.420 --> 00:27:26.049 me to go up there? Basil, you... You must get 00:27:26.049 --> 00:27:29.150 rid of the body for me. What? Are you mad? It 00:27:29.150 --> 00:27:31.630 would involve me in a murder. A murder for which 00:27:31.630 --> 00:27:34.730 you bear as much responsibility as I? Responsibility? 00:27:34.789 --> 00:27:37.250 I bear as much as... You painted the portrait. 00:27:37.910 --> 00:27:40.349 You introduced me to Sir Henry. Had it not been 00:27:40.349 --> 00:27:43.009 for either, I should not be in this frightful 00:27:43.009 --> 00:27:45.190 situation. Nonsense. You can't blame me for what 00:27:45.190 --> 00:27:48.009 you yourself... Help me. I beg you. I tell you 00:27:48.009 --> 00:27:51.630 no. Get someone else, anyone, or do it yourself. 00:27:51.829 --> 00:27:58.319 I can't. I dare not touch the body. I dare not 00:27:58.319 --> 00:28:04.920 even go near it. It revolts me. If, I say if, 00:28:05.680 --> 00:28:09.299 I were to consent to this, how am I to get rid 00:28:09.299 --> 00:28:13.180 of the body? You came in your carriage, did you 00:28:13.180 --> 00:28:15.960 not? Yes. All right. All right. You have only 00:28:15.960 --> 00:28:19.140 to carry the body down from the attic, put it 00:28:19.140 --> 00:28:22.240 in your carriage, drive to the river, and dump 00:28:22.240 --> 00:28:24.720 it in. What if I am seen? Well, you must take 00:28:24.720 --> 00:28:31.779 care not to be. Basil, please. For the friendship 00:28:31.779 --> 00:28:35.359 you once bore me. For the responsibility you 00:28:35.359 --> 00:28:37.480 do bear in all this, whether you agree or not. 00:28:38.720 --> 00:28:43.839 Please. Well, I can at least go up with you and 00:28:43.839 --> 00:28:46.460 see what may be done. Thank you, Basil. Thank 00:28:46.460 --> 00:28:59.369 you. I'll take the candelabra. Follow me. Take 00:28:59.369 --> 00:29:07.309 care, Basil. Don't stumble. There. Whatever Harry 00:29:07.309 --> 00:29:11.430 may have been, he was my friend. But I cannot 00:29:11.430 --> 00:29:15.490 help but say the world is well rid of him. As 00:29:15.490 --> 00:29:20.089 it will be of me. I'll not deny it. Now, where 00:29:20.089 --> 00:29:22.369 is the portrait? You don't want to see that. 00:29:22.410 --> 00:29:25.069 Dorian, if you wish me to help you get rid of 00:29:25.069 --> 00:29:27.569 Harry's body, then you'll have to let me see 00:29:27.569 --> 00:29:32.160 the portrait. it's that or nothing very well 00:29:32.160 --> 00:29:36.700 it's there in the corner here take the candelabra 00:29:36.700 --> 00:29:44.900 oh thank you you see oh but this is horrible 00:29:44.900 --> 00:29:51.779 it's hideous i never painted this no i did no 00:29:51.779 --> 00:29:56.190 it can't be the room is dead mildew has got into 00:29:56.190 --> 00:30:00.690 the canvas. That would account for the green 00:30:00.690 --> 00:30:04.470 splotches on the cheeks. The paints I used had 00:30:04.470 --> 00:30:09.750 some mineral poison in them. Hence, the cancerous 00:30:09.750 --> 00:30:13.750 growths on the nose, the forehead. Oh, heaven 00:30:13.750 --> 00:30:18.450 help me. This is the face of a monster. Yes, 00:30:18.589 --> 00:30:23.029 Basil. The face of a monster. The face of my 00:30:23.029 --> 00:30:26.460 soul. If this is what you are, truly honest... 00:30:26.460 --> 00:30:29.019 It is! I am! Then I have nothing to do with you. 00:30:29.339 --> 00:30:32.480 Oh, you're not human. You're a devil, a fiend! 00:30:32.859 --> 00:30:35.000 Oh, let me out of here! Wait! You said you'd 00:30:35.000 --> 00:30:37.539 help! I must get out of here! I must leave this 00:30:37.539 --> 00:30:40.779 hellhole you call a hole! Basil! No, come back! 00:30:41.279 --> 00:30:48.240 Help me, Basil! You must help me! Help me! Someone 00:30:48.240 --> 00:31:12.180 help me! Help! Who? Miss Catherine Wilson from 00:31:12.180 --> 00:31:15.799 British charities. Oh, yes. Yes. Show her in. 00:31:16.319 --> 00:31:19.940 Parker? Sir? You conveyed my order to the other 00:31:19.940 --> 00:31:22.799 servants. About the attic? Oh, yes. No one will 00:31:22.799 --> 00:31:24.759 enter the attic, sir, without your permission. 00:31:24.819 --> 00:31:28.259 Not even you. Not even I, sir. Show Miss Wilson 00:31:28.259 --> 00:31:35.000 in. You come this way, Miss Wilson. Miss Catherine 00:31:35.000 --> 00:31:38.400 Wilson. Good of you to come, Miss Wilson. Won't 00:31:38.400 --> 00:31:41.259 you sit down? Thank you, Mr. Gray. May I say 00:31:41.259 --> 00:31:44.599 it's good of you to wish to contribute so handsome 00:31:44.599 --> 00:31:47.759 a sum to our charity. Yes, tell me about your 00:31:47.759 --> 00:31:50.759 charity. How will the money I give you be spent? 00:31:51.279 --> 00:31:56.299 Oh, in many ways. To help poor children, orphans, 00:31:56.779 --> 00:32:00.579 widows in need of assistance. Young people who 00:32:00.579 --> 00:32:03.960 are not... Young people? Well, yes. Young men, 00:32:04.180 --> 00:32:07.230 young women. many of whom need help in all sorts 00:32:07.230 --> 00:32:11.470 of ways. Why do you look at me like that? What 00:32:11.470 --> 00:32:16.529 did you say your name is? Catherine Wilson. Why 00:32:16.529 --> 00:32:20.069 do you ask? You look very much like a young woman. 00:32:20.910 --> 00:32:25.670 I was engaged to Mary once. It's strange. You 00:32:25.670 --> 00:32:27.450 didn't look like her when you came in, but now 00:32:27.450 --> 00:32:33.589 you seem to be changing before my very eyes. 00:32:34.960 --> 00:32:41.920 No, Mr. Gray. I am me. No. No, you're not. You're... 00:32:41.920 --> 00:32:45.440 You're Sybil Vane. Mr. Gray? You're Sybil. Only, 00:32:46.079 --> 00:32:52.039 you can't be, because you're dead. Dead. You 00:32:52.039 --> 00:32:55.319 are dead, aren't you? Please, Mr. Gray, get your 00:32:55.319 --> 00:32:58.559 hands off me. What's come over you, sir? You're 00:32:58.559 --> 00:33:04.180 not dead. You are here. It is you, our Sybil. 00:33:04.509 --> 00:33:08.269 Sibyl, my darling. No, don't pull away. Let me 00:33:08.269 --> 00:33:14.630 hold you, embrace you, love you as I want. Oh, 00:33:14.950 --> 00:33:22.809 good Lord. Oh, what am I doing? You're not Sibyl 00:33:22.809 --> 00:33:26.309 Vane. Mr. Gray, I'm afraid you're ill, not yourself. 00:33:27.009 --> 00:33:29.490 I shall come back some other day. No, no. Good 00:33:29.490 --> 00:33:35.779 day, Mr. Gray. Oh, what happened to me? What 00:33:35.779 --> 00:33:40.740 is happening to me? Sir? Are you all right? The 00:33:40.740 --> 00:33:44.500 young lady said she thought you were ill. I confess, 00:33:44.859 --> 00:33:48.920 I don't feel altogether well. Some brandy, sir? 00:33:49.039 --> 00:33:56.000 Yes. Please, Harry. Big pardon, sir. What? I 00:33:56.000 --> 00:33:58.259 think you called me, Harry. How could I possibly 00:33:58.259 --> 00:34:01.819 have called you Harry? Harry's dead! Sir? Henry 00:34:01.819 --> 00:34:08.800 dead, sir? What? What? Sir, you are ill. No, 00:34:08.800 --> 00:34:11.420 no, no, no. Don't try to get upset. Sit right 00:34:11.420 --> 00:34:14.780 there. I'll fetch the brandy. Yes. Yes, do that. 00:34:16.380 --> 00:34:19.280 You'll forgive my say so, sir, but to judge from 00:34:19.280 --> 00:34:21.760 Sir Henry's high spirits when you returned from 00:34:21.760 --> 00:34:25.739 the opera last night, he has many years yet to 00:34:25.739 --> 00:34:31.739 live. In hell. Sir, you were saying the strangest 00:34:31.739 --> 00:34:35.510 things. Here, here, drink this. Oh, thank you, 00:34:35.570 --> 00:34:40.409 Harry. Sir, it's Parker, your man servant. The 00:34:40.409 --> 00:34:44.809 best servant a man ever had. A devoted man, more 00:34:44.809 --> 00:34:49.110 friend than servant. Better friend than any of 00:34:49.110 --> 00:34:52.389 them. Better friend than you are, Harry. You 00:34:52.389 --> 00:34:57.030 swine! Sir! Get out, Harry! Damn you! Get out! 00:34:57.690 --> 00:35:05.280 Mr. Dorian, sir! I'm going to fetch the doctor. 00:35:05.599 --> 00:35:13.280 Doctor? The doctor can help me, Parker. Permit 00:35:13.280 --> 00:35:31.570 me to disperse. I shall fetch him at once. Parker, 00:35:31.630 --> 00:35:33.989 sir, it's eleven o 'clock. I thought I'd just 00:35:33.989 --> 00:35:36.469 look in on you before retiring. How do you feel, 00:35:36.730 --> 00:35:41.489 sir? Not well. I can't sleep. The powder's the 00:35:41.489 --> 00:35:44.409 doctor prescribed. They don't help. They've made 00:35:44.409 --> 00:35:48.030 me worse, if anything. Filled my head with all 00:35:48.030 --> 00:35:51.530 sorts of fearful thoughts, Parker. Nightmarish 00:35:51.530 --> 00:36:06.760 thoughts. Of death. Decay. No, Mr. Dorian, don't 00:36:06.760 --> 00:36:09.619 take on so... Why, for a man like you to have 00:36:09.619 --> 00:36:11.719 thoughts of death, that's so ridiculous, sir. 00:36:11.840 --> 00:36:15.079 Look at you, so young, so handsome, so full of 00:36:15.079 --> 00:36:21.699 spit. I am old and ugly and decayed. Sir, if 00:36:21.699 --> 00:36:25.119 you could see yourself in the glass, but never 00:36:25.119 --> 00:36:28.719 mind now. Here, let me pull the quilt up around 00:36:28.719 --> 00:36:34.469 your shoulders and then you'll sleep. One thing 00:36:34.469 --> 00:36:38.809 more. Who was that at the front door earlier 00:36:38.809 --> 00:36:42.570 tonight? Nothing important, sir. It was a message 00:36:42.570 --> 00:36:46.409 from Mr. Hallward's housekeeper, sir. Basil's 00:36:46.409 --> 00:36:50.570 housekeeper? Why would she send a message? Well, 00:36:50.849 --> 00:36:53.809 she thought you'd want to know since you were 00:36:53.809 --> 00:36:58.449 one of his closest friends. Were? Well, I'm sorry 00:36:58.449 --> 00:37:04.039 to tell you he's dead, sir. How? He took his 00:37:04.039 --> 00:37:10.059 own life, sir. Oh, sir. I shouldn't have told 00:37:10.059 --> 00:37:16.099 you. I'll fetch the doctor. No, no. You need 00:37:16.099 --> 00:37:19.619 help. Yes, yes. And you can help me, partner. 00:37:19.780 --> 00:37:22.739 Anything, sir, anything. Help me. Help me to 00:37:22.739 --> 00:37:26.039 the adage. I think I feel too weak to go alone. 00:37:26.699 --> 00:37:31.340 Nor do I dare go alone. And there is something. 00:37:32.900 --> 00:37:37.139 I must do. Help me, good friend, please. Help 00:37:37.139 --> 00:37:39.699 me? Careful, careful. Let me get an arm around 00:37:39.699 --> 00:37:43.239 you. Here we are, sir. The candle, can you manage 00:37:43.239 --> 00:37:55.539 easily? Let us go then. Here we are, sir. What 00:37:55.539 --> 00:37:59.320 is it you wish to do? I shall... I shall need... 00:37:59.530 --> 00:38:03.550 A knife. I'll go down and fix it. No. No need. 00:38:04.929 --> 00:38:10.710 No need. Shine that candle over there. Yes, sir. 00:38:12.829 --> 00:38:16.409 We should have caught him. That looks like a 00:38:16.409 --> 00:38:22.130 body. A dead body. It is. It is Sir Henry's body. 00:38:22.210 --> 00:38:28.190 Sir Henry? I murdered him last night with a knife. 00:38:28.969 --> 00:38:32.929 It is in his back. Take it out and bring it to 00:38:32.929 --> 00:38:37.070 me. Oh, sir. You said you would help me. Yes, 00:38:37.230 --> 00:38:45.730 I sent my shell. A knife, sir. And now, the portrait. 00:38:46.130 --> 00:38:48.530 It's the whole world's painting of you. The one 00:38:48.530 --> 00:38:51.530 we brought up here months ago. It is still there, 00:38:51.909 --> 00:38:57.110 in the corner, amidst the shadows. I must destroy 00:38:57.110 --> 00:39:00.960 it. Oh no, sir. Bring the candle. Sir, I don't 00:39:00.960 --> 00:39:03.460 know what this is all about. Sir Henry, murder 00:39:03.460 --> 00:39:05.900 and destroying your portrait. One of the most 00:39:05.900 --> 00:39:11.320 beautiful paintings that ever... Oh no. Yes. 00:39:12.079 --> 00:39:15.659 Now you see why it must be destroyed. And will 00:39:15.659 --> 00:39:23.860 be destroyed. By me. Now! There! Into hell with 00:39:23.860 --> 00:39:27.739 you! And there! Burn in the nethermost! The fires 00:39:27.739 --> 00:39:32.039 of the pit suffer surviving torture and torment 00:39:32.039 --> 00:39:35.239 the devil can heap upon you for the purification 00:39:35.239 --> 00:39:46.059 of your soul! Mr. Dorian! Mr. Dorian! The portrait! 00:39:47.199 --> 00:39:53.179 Look at the portrait! It's changing! Heaven protects 00:39:53.179 --> 00:39:56.769 us! It's changing before my very eyes! hideous 00:39:56.769 --> 00:40:00.809 monsters becoming young and handsome and beautiful. 00:40:01.230 --> 00:40:06.289 It's you, sir. You. As Mr. Holworth painted you. 00:40:07.010 --> 00:40:12.429 Let me hold you up so you can look for... You. 00:40:13.690 --> 00:40:19.530 You. You are becoming... Yes. With a scabrous 00:40:19.530 --> 00:40:26.880 loathsome I have become what I really am. picture 00:40:26.880 --> 00:40:40.500 of Dorian Gray. And so died Dorian Gray turning 00:40:40.500 --> 00:40:43.320 physically into the hideous and loathsome thing 00:40:43.320 --> 00:40:47.579 which was his soul as the portrait became once 00:40:47.579 --> 00:40:52.539 again the handsome youth he once had been. As 00:40:52.539 --> 00:40:54.900 I read the picture of Dorian Gray, I couldn't 00:40:54.900 --> 00:40:58.639 help but wonder if our modern penchant for doing 00:40:58.639 --> 00:41:02.559 your own thing might not be leading some of us, 00:41:02.559 --> 00:41:07.199 at least, to the same end as poor Dorian. I don't 00:41:07.199 --> 00:41:11.260 know. What do you think? I'll be back shortly. 00:41:22.730 --> 00:41:25.590 Oscar Wilde poured into the picture of Dorian 00:41:25.590 --> 00:41:29.929 Gray all his brilliant wit and all his wisdom, 00:41:30.309 --> 00:41:34.230 too. The wisdom of experience. For Wilde lived 00:41:34.230 --> 00:41:38.510 life to the hilt and paid for it, as must we 00:41:38.510 --> 00:41:42.710 all. Our cast included Nick Pryor, Norman Rose, 00:41:43.150 --> 00:41:46.050 and Roger DeKoven. The entire production was 00:41:46.050 --> 00:41:49.949 under the direction of Hyman Brown. This is EG 00:41:49.949 --> 00:41:52.489 Marshall inviting you to return to our mystery 00:41:52.489 --> 00:41:56.809 theater for another adventure in the macabre 00:41:56.809 --> 00:42:01.210 until next time pleasant dreams