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"The American Experience" Eugene O'Neill: A Documentary Film (2006)
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"The American Experience" (1988)Original Air Date:
21 maaliskuu 2006 (Season 18, Episode 9)Plot Keywords:
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Interesting survey of O'Neill's life and mental state, but repetitive of various points. more (2 total)Cast
(Episode Credited cast) | Robert Brustein | ... | Himself |
| Zoe Caldwell | ... | Herself / Mary Tyrone |
| Arthur Gelb | ... | Himself |
| Barbara Gelb | ... | Herself |
| John Guare | ... | Himself |
| Tony Kushner | ... | Himself |
 | Robert Sean Leonard | ... | Himself / Edmund Tyrone |
 | Sidney Lumet | ... | Himself |
 | Liam Neeson | ... | Himself / James Tyrone Jr. |
 | Al Pacino | ... | Himself / Hickey |
 | Christopher Plummer | ... | Narrator / James Tyrone |
 | Robert Redford | ... | Don Parritt (archive footage) |
 | Vanessa Redgrave | ... | Herself / Mary Tyrone |
| Lloyd Richards | ... | Himself |
 | Natasha Richardson | ... | Herself |
 | Jason Robards | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Edward Shaughnessy | ... | Himself |
 | Callie Thorne | ... | (voice) |
| Zoë Wanamaker | ||
| Robert Whitehead | ... | Himself |
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This well produced survey of the tormented life of a man whom many consider America's greatest play wright suffers perhaps from the zeal of the director and writer. O'Neill's biography is constantly interspersed with repeated descriptions of his tormented mental state, sometimes using the exact words of a previous commenter. There are a number of film clips of various actors reading from O'Neill plays, and these are sometimes repeated verbatim. It looks like a bit of re-editing would have created a shorter documentary with the same impact.
If you have the patience to tolerate what I have described above, and found annoying, it remains a documentary well worth viewing. It could lead to a better understanding of the psyche of Eugene O'Neill. If you would rather let O'Neill speak for himself, just view his latter day great plays, especially MOURNING BECOMES ELEKTRA, A LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT, and A MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN. Another alternative is to view the 1985 PBS documentary "Eugene O'Neill: a Glory of Ghosts". Since it was part of the American Masters series, beginning in 1983, it may be hard to find.