The Trial of Oscar Wilde

Courtroom account of the prosecution of Oscar Wilde for gross indecency with other men followed Wilde's disastrous libel charge against the Marquess of Queensberry, father of his lover Lord Alfred Douglas.

Cast

Micheál Mac Liammóir

as Oscar Wilde

André Morell

as Sir Edward Clarke QC

Martin Benson

as Edward Carson QC

Tudor Evans

as Marquess of Queensberry

Michael Bangerter

as Lord Alfred Douglas

Harold Scott

as Mr Justice Charles

J. B. Priestley

as Self

Andrew Faulds

as Narrator

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