{"id":3647,"date":"2008-11-02T03:31:26","date_gmt":"2008-11-02T03:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/11\/02\/dallamanos-dorian-gray\/"},"modified":"2013-05-06T15:06:12","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T14:06:12","slug":"dallamanos-dorian-gray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/11\/02\/dallamanos-dorian-gray\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallamano&#8217;s Dorian Gray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dorian_big.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dorian.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dorian.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 1970 screen adaptation of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0065656\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Dorian Gray<\/em><\/a> by Massimo Dallamano is one film version I&#8217;ve yet to see. Given that it&#8217;s a production of notorious schlock merchants Samuel Z Arkoff and Harry Alan Towers I wouldn&#8217;t expect too much although it does have Helmut Berger as the star when he was at the height of his pulchritude. And I really like this Klimt-esque poster, a typical piece of Seventies design with an illustration that resembles many of the trendier European comic strips of the period. I&#8217;ve no idea who the artist was despite there being a scrawled signature. If anyone has a clue, please leave a comment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> The artist is Ted Coconis.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/cinebeats.blogsome.com\/2007\/04\/08\/massimo-dallamanos-dorian-gray\/\" target=\"_blank\">A lengthy review at Cinebeats <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-oscar-wilde-archive\/\">The Oscar Wilde archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 1970 screen adaptation of Dorian Gray by Massimo Dallamano is one film version I&#8217;ve yet to see. Given that it&#8217;s a production of notorious schlock merchants Samuel Z Arkoff and Harry Alan Towers I wouldn&#8217;t expect too much although it does have Helmut Berger as the star when he was at the height of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/11\/02\/dallamanos-dorian-gray\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dallamano&#8217;s Dorian Gray&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,7,5,48],"tags":[117,1573,2370,116,4744],"class_list":["post-3647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-film","category-gay","category-illustrators","tag-dorian-gray","tag-helmut-berger","tag-massimo-dallamano","tag-oscar-wilde","tag-ted-coconis"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-WP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}