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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Ronald Lacey
Dylan
Gayle Hunnicutt
Liz
Ed Bishop
Prof. Goonmeyer
Kate Harper
Connie Goonmeyer
Valerie Colgan
Imogen McLewis
Norman Chancer
Prof. McLewis
Hilary Ryan
Girl student
Rhoda Lewis
Florence Thomas
Clifford Evans
D.J. Thomas
Dennis Burgess
Doctor
Adrian Hocking
Child Thomas
Susannah Fellows
Party girl
Richard Davies
Young Thomas
William Thomas
Idris
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