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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