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Dylan: The Life and Death of a Poet

★ 6.0 (1 votes) | 1978 | 1h 57m
DramaDocumentaryTV Movie
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.

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  • Status Released
  • Release Date November 9, 1978
  • Budget N/A
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  • Production BBC Cymru Wales

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