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Directed by
  
Andrew Sinclair

Written by
  
Dylan Thomas

Initial release
  
27 January 1972 (London)

Music director
  
Brian Gascoigne

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Produced by
  
John Comfort et al.

Screenplay by
  
Andrew Sinclair

Director
  
Andrew Sinclair

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Based on
  
Under Milk Wood, A Play for Voices by Dylan Thomas

Starring
  
Richard Burton Elizabeth Taylor Peter O'Toole

Characters
  
Rosie Probert, Polly Garter, Mrs. Og-Pritchard

Screenplay
  
Dylan Thomas, Andrew Sinclair

Cast
  
Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter O'Toole, Siân Phillips, Glynis Johns

Similar
  
Elizabeth Taylor movies, Movies about dreams

Under Milk Wood is a 1972 British film directed by Andrew Sinclair and based on the 1954 radio play Under Milk Wood by the Welsh writer Dylan Thomas. It featured performances from many well-known actors as the residents of the fictional Welsh fishing village of Llareggub including Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Siân Phillips, David Jason, Glynis Johns, Victor Spinetti, Ruth Madoc, Angharad Rees, Ann Beach, Vivien Merchant and Peter O'Toole.

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Production

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Under Milk Wood was Sinclair's first film and he was able to sign up Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor to the project with the help of O'Toole, Sinclair's long-term friend. Burton and Taylor were paid £10,000 each. Elizabeth Taylor was only available for three days of filming, which at her request took place in London. At £600, her three dresses took up half of the costume budget.

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It was the only film in which Burton, Taylor and O’Toole appeared together. It was shot primarily on location in Wales and has since acquired a reputation among aficionados as a cult movie. "The film, beautifully photographed and spoken, casts the brooding spell of Thomas’ verse in its reconstruction of the seaside village and the daily round of its inhabitants", wrote Andrew Sinclair in the International Herald Tribune.

The filming took place in Wales.

Aftermath

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The film was not a box office success and the main stars wrote it off as a tax loss.

In December 2012 the director of the film, Andrew Sinclair, gave its rights to the people of Wales. In 2014 the film was digitally remastered and re-released to celebrate the centenary of Thomas's birth.

Cast

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  • Richard Burton as First Man
  • Elizabeth Taylor as Rosie Probert
  • Peter O'Toole as Captain Tom Cat
  • Glynis Johns as Myfanwy Price
  • Vivien Merchant as Mrs. Pugh
  • Siân Phillips as Mrs. Ogmore-Pritchard
  • Victor Spinetti as Mog Edwards
  • Ryan Davies as Second Man
  • Angharad Rees as Gossamer Beynon
  • Ray Smith as Mr. Waldo
  • Michael Forrest as Sinbad Sailor
  • Ann Beach as Polly Garter
  • Glynn Edwards as Mr. Cherry Owen
  • Bridget Turner as Mrs. Cherry Owen
  • Talfryn Thomas as Mr. Pugh
  • Tim Wylton as Mr. Willy Nilly
  • Bronwen Williams as Mrs. Willy Nilly
  • Meg Wynn Owen as Lily Smalls
  • Hubert Rees as Butcher Beynon
  • Aubrey Richards as Reverend Eli Jenkins
  • Mark Jones as Evans the Death
  • Dillwyn Owen as Mr. Ogmore
  • Richard Davies as Mr. Pritchard
  • David Jason as Nogood Boyo
  • Davyd Harries as Police Constable Attila Rees
  • David Davies as Utah Watkins
  • References

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