Dylan: The Life and Death of a Poet

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


  • Genre: Drama, Documentary, TV Movie
  • Release Date: 1978-11-09
  • User Rating: 6/10 from 1 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 57min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: BBC Cymru Wales
  • Production Country: United Kingdom
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Summary

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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Writing Paul Ferris Writer
Production Richard Lewis Producer