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Loaded Gun: Life and Death and Dickinson

  • Documentary

March 13, 2002 (US)

1h 0m

Hundreds of scholars and biographers have tried to explain the life and work of Emily Dickinson, but the famously reclusive poet remains an enigma. In LOADED GUN: Life, and Death, and Dickinson, stumped filmmaker Jim Wolpaw uses a decidedly unorthodox approach to create a documen...

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