The Rime of the Ancient Mariner who are playing dice for the souls of the crew. With a roll of the dice, Death wins the lives of the crew members and Life-in-Death the life of the mariner, a prize she considers more valuable. Her name is a clue to the mariner's fate: he will endure a fate worse than death as punishment for his killing of the albatross. One by one, all of the crew members die, but the mariner lives on, seeing for seven days and nights the curse in the eyes of the crew's corpses, whose last expressions remain upon their faces. Eventually, this
Rime of the Ancient Mariner (film) starting in April 2007 on DVD. The film was released to a responsive commercial market despite the fact that it has never been promoted or advertised. A review in the April 1986 edition of "Library Journal" called it "a must for schools, and an excellent choice for public libraries." DaSilva plans to have the film circulated worldwide where it has thus far not been released, believing Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s intrinsic message about the sanctity of all life on Earth is just as important today as it has ever been. Rime of the Ancient Mariner (film) Rime of the Ancient Mariner