Oscar Wilde

England, 1891. Oscar Wilde is a writer on the rise at the time. He meets Lord Alfred Douglas. Alfred is a young nobleman. Over the years a close relationship forms between them. Alfred’s father criticises it openly. The father is the Marquess of Queensberry. He puts the criticism in very harsh terms. Wilde then decides, in 1895, to bring a case. He takes that decision at Alfred’s urging. The case he brings is one of defamation. Part of the account plays out in a courtroom. The work is set in Victorian England. Social prejudice stands inside the account. Robert Morley and Ralph Richardson take the leads in Gregory Ratoff’s British film of 1960.