Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night (film) actor Lawrence Dobkin and a win in the category of best actor for Melvyn Douglas in the lead role. Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night (film) Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night is a 1967 television play broadcast as part of the "CBS Playhouse" series. The teleplay, its title taken from the first line of a Dylan Thomas poem, tells the story of a carpenter who has built his own home, but is now too old and infirm to live on his own and is sent to live in an old age home against his desires.
Do not go gentle into that good night before Christmas 1952. It has no title other than its first line, "Do not go gentle into that good night", a line that appears as a refrain throughout the poem along with its other refrain, "Rage, rage against the dying of the light". The poem currently remains under copyright, although the text is available online. The villanelle consists of five stanzas of three lines (tercets) followed by a single stanza of four lines (a quatrain) for a total of nineteen lines. It is structured by two repeating rhymes and two refrains: the first line of the first stanza serves as