I think that this is a brilliant film with Morley's "Oscar Wilde" not that far behind but enough has already been said about the merits of both. Could I just correct a few errors in both threads to the effect that there were gaps of one or two years between them. No there were not. They were released almost simultaneously in the Spring of 1960, Morley's having a West End premiere and Finch's not. I have often wondered about the (slightly unseemly) race to be first or even why there needed to be even one film on the subject at all just then and can only assume that it had something to do with the fact that the releases coincided (almost) with the sixtieth anniversary of Wilde's death, on 30 November, in Paris.
Review of The Trials of Oscar Wilde
