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Dylan: The Life and Death of a Poet (1978)

Dylan: The Life and Death of a Poet (1978)

Drama TV Movie Documentary
Release Date: 1978, November 9
Countries: United Kingdom
Production: BBC Cymru Wales, BBC Cymru Wales
Cast: Ronald Lacey, Valerie Colgan, Ed Bishop, Norman Chancer, Kate Harper, Dennis Burgess, Richard Davies, William Thomas, Susannah Fellows, Rhoda Lewis, Hilary Ryan, Gayle Hunnicutt

Overview:

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.