Shadowplayer and Nicholas Ray associate Tom Farrell writes ~
“Nick Ray died on June 16,1979, here with daughter Julie and wife Betty in 1960.”
Seems apt that I received this just after posting a piece on the Dylan Thomas film — at one point Ray was going to film Dylan Thomas’ Edinburgh-set screenplay THE DOCTOR AND THE DEVILS, with James Mason and Barbara Steele. Looking at the Freddie Francis version that eventually got made, or at the new Thomas movie, for all its virtues of craft and decency, is a good reminder of why we need impassioned, ungovernable geniuses like Ray in the cinema today.
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