Richard Todd said in interviews that he had no idea this film featured nudity until he discovered it was playing at a well-known porn cinema in London.
The drinking club where James Vane nearly kills Dorian is called The Black Cock.
This film adaptation is set in the twentieth century, whilst the novella is set in the nineteenth.
One of the few adaptations of Oscar Wilde's novel where Dorian is depicted with his book-accurate blue eyes and blond hair.
Italian censorship visa # 56499 delivered on 4-8-1970.