Let the BBC transport you back to the decadent aristocratic drawing rooms of 1890s England. Lovingly restored for DVD, these plays feature a who’s who of great actors of the British stage and screen including Sir John Gielgud, Joan Plowright, Jeremy Brett, Susan Hampshire, Margaret Leighton and Gemma Jones.

The Importance of Being Earnest
Director: Stuart Burge
Cast: Rupert Frazer, Gemma Jones, Alec McCowen, Paul McGann, Natalie Ogle, Joan Plowright, Amanda Redman

The Picture of Dorian Gray
Director: John Gorrie
Dramatist: John Osborne, based on the novel by Oscar Wilde
Cast: John Gielgud, Peter Firth, Jeremy Brett, Mark Dignam, Judi Bowker, Nicholas Ball

An Ideal Husband
Director: Rudolph Cartier
Cast: Margaret Leighton, Keith Michell, Jeremy Brett, Dinah Sheridan and Susan Hampshire Lady Windermere’s Fan
Director: Tony Smith
Cast: Helena Little, Tim Woodward, Stephanie Turner, Kenneth Cranham, Ian Burford, John Clive, Sara Kestelman, Robert Lang.

The 1988 BBC Production of The Importance of Being Earnest is not the four act version of the play, but contains certain copyright material which is reproduced by permission of the Estate of Oscar Wilde.

Special Features:
The life and loves of Oscar Wilde--A 60 minute feature on the life of Oscar Wilde

Product Details

Actors: John Gielgud, Joan Plowright, Susan Hampshire
Format: PAL
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired: English
Number of discs: 3
Classification: 12
Studio: 2 Entertain Video
DVD Release Date: 30 May 2005
Run Time: 406 minutes

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