The Trials of Oscar Wilde

The Trials of Oscar Wilde

Infobox Film
name = The Trials of Oscar Wilde
director = Ken Hughes
producer = Irving Allen
Albert R. Broccoli
Harold Huth
writer = Play:
John Furnell
Book:
Montgomery Hyde
Writer:
Ken Hughes
starring = Peter Finch
Yvonne Mitchell
James Mason
Nigel Patrick
Lionel Jeffries
John Fraser
music = Ron Goodwin
cinematography = Ted Moore
editing = Geoffrey Foot

"The Trials of Oscar Wilde" also known as "The Man with the Green Carnation", "The Green Carnation", and "The Trial of Oscar Wilde" is a 1960 English film based on the libel case involving Oscar Wilde and the Marquess of Queensberry. It was produced by Irving Allen, written by Allen and Ken Hughes and directed by Hughes, Albert R. Broccoli and Harold Huth from a screenplay by Ken Hughes and Montgomery Hyde, based on the play "The Stringed Lute" by John Furnell. The film was made by Warwick Films and released by United Artists.

It stars Peter Finch as Wilde, Lionel Jeffries as Queensberry, and John Fraser as Lord Alfred Douglas with James Mason, Nigel Patrick, Yvonne Mitchell, Maxine Audley, Paul Rogers and James Booth.

The film won the Golden Globe for Best English-Language Foreign Film. Peter Finch won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor and the film also received four other BAFTA nominations including Best British Film, Best Film from any source and for John Fraser as Best British Actor. Peter Finch (tied with Bambang Hermanto) also received the Best Actor Award at the Moscow International Film Festival.

The production was filmed in Technirama and presented in Super Technirama 70 at some theaters.

This was one of two films about Wilde released in 1960, the other being " Oscar Wilde". They both hit the theatres in the last week of May.

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