Directed by Massimo Dallamano and produced by Harry Alan Towers, the film stresses the decadence and eroticism of the story and changes the setting to early 1970s London.

She takes him back to the theatre and plays a tape of Romeo and Juliet as they make love.

Basil's client Henry Wotton arrives with his sister and wants the picture of Dorian Gray for his gallery.

It is soon revealed that, just as in Wilde's story that bears his name, Dorian's portrait ages in his place; he himself is still young and beautiful.

He collapses, and in death takes on the features of the older alter ego from the portrait, which shows him again as a handsome young man.