 | THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
February 5, 1999 (Friday) at 7:30 p.m. (United Kingdom, 1952, 95 minutes, color, 16 mm) Directed by Anthony Asquith Starring Michael Redgrave, Michael Denison, Edith Evans, Joan Greenwood, Dorothy Tutin |
It took 57 years for Irish playwright Oscar Wilde's wittiest play to make it to the screen. Relying on Wilde's epigrams and bon mots, director-writer Anthony Asquith made no attempt to make this comedy of manners set in Victorian England more cinematic. This classic tells of Jack and Algy, two well-to-do bachelors enamored of two women who both have a fixation about falling in love with men named Ernest.