George Sanders as Lord Henry Wotton in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) As reluctant as Dorian himself was to look at his own picture,...

Dorian Gray is perhaps one of the most intriguing characters of Victorian fiction. The Picture of Dorian Gray stands somewhere between the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Edgar Allen Poe. Doyle's world is one of pure logic; Sherlock Holmes is a man who finds answers; everything is explained and demystified, all questions are answered, and conclusions follow premises with mathematical precision. Meanwhile, Edgar Allan Poe wrote in a world of poetry and symbol; his stories