Agee

• Director: Ross Spears
• Genre: History
• Movie Type: Biography
• Themes: Writer's Life
• Release Year: 1980
• Country: US
• Run Time: 98 minutes

Plot

The life and work of writer James Agee provides the substance of this engrossing documentary by Ross Spears. The director puts together a portrait of Agee with excerpts from his prose and interviews with the people who either worked with him or provided material for his books. Among those interviewed are President Jimmy Carter, critic Dwight Macdonald, historian and writer Robert Fitzgerald, and John Huston, who worked with Agee on The African Queen. Agee's three former wives, his priest (Father James Frye), and other personal friends round out the picture of this hard-drinking, chain-smoking, intense writer who died as a result of a heart attack at the age of 45. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide

Cast

Robert Fitzgerald; John Huston

Credit

Ross Spears - Director, Kenton Coe - Composer (Music Score), Ross Spears - Producer, Ross Spears - Screenwriter

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