Dylan: The Life and Death of a Poet (1978)
Synopsis
A drama documentary of the life and death of the poet Dylan Thomas, who died in New York 25 years ago at age 39. Alcohol and a doctor's injection of morphine were the immediate causes. Ever since his childhood in Wales his life was a spectacular attempt - comic at times, serious below the surface, tragic at the finish - to survive on his own bizarre terms as the poet to end all poets. By the 1950s, that first postwar decade of uneasiness and change, Dylan Thomas was a legend to his admirers but a burnt-out case to himself. As he tours America to read poetry to rapt audiences, his past crowds in on him, the fractured memories of a man at the end of his tether.
Release Date: 1978-11-09
Runtime: 117 minutes
Top Cast
- Ronald Lacey as Dylan
- Gayle Hunnicutt as Liz
- Ed Bishop as Prof. Goonmeyer
- Kate Harper as Connie Goonmeyer
- Valerie Colgan as Imogen McLewis
- Norman Chancer as Prof. McLewis
- Hilary Ryan as Girl student
- Rhoda Lewis as Florence Thomas
- Clifford Evans as D.J. Thomas
- Dennis Burgess as Doctor
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