Summary
In a candle-lit Mayfair drawing-room suffused with the scent of gardenias and the tremor of violins, the immaculate Lord Arthur Savile—cravat starched to surgical precision—learns from the cadaverous palmist Podgers that his matrimonial bliss hinges upon a single atrocity: murder. What follows is a sardonic danse macabre through gas-lit London, where poisoned letters, exploding clocks, and a barge-bound bomb become brushstrokes in Wilde’s portrait of destiny as a dandified death-mask. Beneath the veneer of epigrammatic wit, the film peels back the velvet glove of Edwardian civility to reveal the twitching hand of a man determined to wed his Sybil even if it means rehearsing Cain in evening dress.
Synopsis
Lord Arthur Savile is engaged to Sybil Merton and their wedding is imminent, when palmist Septimus R Podgers predicts in a private room that Lord Savile will not marry until he has committed murder.
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