In Search of Hart Crane

Overview

Produced and directed by Hurwitz for National Educational Television (precursor of PBS), Hurwitz uses biographer and Columbia professor, John Unterecker, to help him look for the poet, Hart Crane, in his work and in the memories of many of his contemporaries. In Search of Hart Crane, 1966, is one of the very first interview-driven documentaries and is still a masterpiece of the literary documentary film.

Directed by Leo Hurwitz

Top cast

Gary Merrill

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Charmion von Wiegand

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Gorham B. Munson

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Samuel Loveman

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William Lescaze

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Waldo Frank

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Malcolm Cowley

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Margaret Babcock

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Solomon Grunberg

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Peggy Baird

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