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Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry

5.2 100 mins Documentary   1976
ONF | NFB  
Director(s): Donald Brittain John Kramer

Release Date: 01 Thu, Jan 1976

This feature-length Oscar®-nominated documentary focuses on Malcolm Lowry, author of one of the major novels of the 20th century, Under the Volcano. But while Lowry fought a winning battle with words, he lost his battle with alcohol. Shot on location in four countries, the film combines photographs, readings by Richard Burton from the novel and interviews with the people who loved and hated Lowry, to create a vivid portrait of the man.

Casts of Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry

Richard Burton

as Malcolm Lowry (voice)

Donald Brittain

as Narrator (voice)

Marjorie Bonner

as herself

John Buchan

as Himself (Archive Footage)

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