Dylan: The Life and Death of a Poet (movie)
- User score: 6
- Production country: United Kingdom
- Production companies: BBC Cymru Wales
- Genre: Drama, Documentary, TV Movie
- Release date: 11/9/1978
- Run time: 117 min.
Movie description
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.
