Dylan: The Life and Death of a Poet

11/09/1978

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1hr 57min

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Drama

,Documentary

,TV Movie

STORY

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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Ronald Lacey
  • Gayle Hunnicutt
  • Ed Bishop
  • Kate Harper
  • Valerie Colgan

    INFORMATION

      Production Companies

    • BBC Cymru Wales

      Production Countries

    • United Kingdom

    LANGUAGES

    • English