Il garofano verde

As the film was being made against the clock in order to beat Ancora una domanda, Oscar Wilde! (1960) to cinemas, most scenes had to be filmed in one take. However, after the first take of the scene where the Marquis of Queensberry (Lionel Jeffries) strikes his son, Lord Alfred Douglas (John Fraser), Fraser felt his reaction lacked the required passion. He asked director Ken Hughes for another take, which Hughes agreed to, with some reluctance. As the shot of Fraser's reaction was being set up again, Jeffries asked Fraser if he should hit Fraser for real. After a moment of hesitation, Fraser agreed, and Jeffries smacked him with full force, with Fraser's stunned reaction to the slap perfectly captured on screen.

Queensberry leaves Wilde a card accusing him of "posing as a sodomite". The real Queensberry misspelled the word as "somdomite"; presumably this was changed for clarity's sake.

Lillie Langtry's name is misspelled "Lily."

Featured in A Bit of Scarlet (1997)