The Breakdown
- Hurd Hatfield's icy Dorian anchors the moral rot
- Technicolor portrait inserts deliver practical horror punch
- George Sanders' Lord Henry drips cynical wit
- Adds Basil's niece romance absent from the novel
- Hays Code softens the source's full nihilism
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