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00:00 (CROWD CHEERING)

00:01 Oscar Wilde, the man with the green coronation.

00:06 Oscar Wilde, the brilliantly successful playwright

00:10 whose wicked witty quips are still today's most popular epigrams.

00:14 Mr. Wilde, may I present you with this, sir?

00:18 Charming.

00:19 Every time I smell them, I shall think of you, Lord Queen.

00:23 (ALL LAUGHING)

00:25 Not so long ago, he created the most outrageous scandal

00:28 of the century.

00:30 Not so long ago, it was a name you had to whisper.

00:33 There's still one thing.

00:35 All these stories I hear about you,

00:37 there isn't any truth in them, is there?

00:39 Even today, Oscar Wilde makes news in the top news dailies.

00:43 Even today, the life story of this controversial figure

00:46 and his trials at the Old Daily

00:48 still provide angry, passionate argument.

00:51 Well, Lord Queensberry, it's all right, Arthur, you can go.

00:54 It seems the peerage don't have a monopoly of good men.

00:57 If I catch you two again together,

01:00 I shall take a whip to you, sir,

01:02 and I shall thrash you to the ground.

01:05 - You're leaving now. - Hit him!

01:08 Hit him!

01:25 When I married you,

01:27 I didn't believe it was possible to love anybody more than I loved you.

01:31 I still love you, darling.

01:36 Help me, Constance.

01:38 Help me.

01:40 Also starring John Fraser as Lord Alfred Douglas,

01:43 better known as Bozy...

01:45 To the importance of being honest.

01:47 To the importance of friendship.

01:49 The extravagant, spoiled son of a great eccentric.

01:52 How I ever came to think you were so marvelous.

01:55 Bozy, for God's sake, go away!

01:57 Idle of society, and look at you, sniveling like some kicked dog.

02:01 You are not going to throw me aside just because you've no further use for me.

02:05 You're not my father!

02:07 Lionel Jeffreys as Wilde's greatest enemy,

02:11 the Marquess of Queensberry.

02:13 - Damn your insolence! - Please!

02:15 I'm going back to London this afternoon, and I warn you,

02:18 if ever you try and interfere in my private affairs again,

02:21 I'll buy myself a pistol,

02:23 and I'll hunt you down and kill you.

02:26 And guest stars James Mason as prosecuting counsel Edward Carson,

02:30 Nigel Patrick, defending counsel Sir Edward Clark,

02:34 two of the greatest lawyers of their time,

02:37 in one of the most famous criminal libel cases of all time.

02:41 Silver cigarette case for Mr. Taylor.

02:44 A gold-topped walking stick for Mr. Parker.

02:48 A book for Mr. Wood inscribed to Alfred from Oscar.

02:53 If I may say so, my lord, my learned friend has no right

02:56 to make suggestions of certain behavior

02:58 with a group of persons not represented in this court

03:00 and whose evidence we have not heard.

03:02 But you will hear it, Sir Edward.

03:04 It's my intention to produce every one of the persons mentioned just now

03:07 in this court tomorrow morning.

03:09 On your own, you're a group of blackmailers and police suspects.

03:11 Nevertheless, they will be here to deliver their testimony,

03:14 testimony that will prove my client's plea of justification

03:17 beyond any possible shadow of doubt.

03:19 (SIREN WAILING)

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03:27 (SIREN WAILING)

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03:39 (SIREN WAILING)

03:41 (dramatic music)

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