Forbidden Passion: The Oscar Wilde Movie

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Status

Released

Production

Unknown

Aired

1985-03-26

Forbidden Passion: The Oscar Wilde Movie

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