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The Iceman Cometh is a 1973 American drama film directed by John Frankenheimer. The screenplay, written by Thomas Quinn Curtiss, is based on Eugene O'Neill's 1946 play of the same name. The film was produced by Ely Landau for the American Film Theatre, which from 1973 to 1975 presented thirteen film adaptations of noted plays.
Oct 29, 1973 · The Iceman Cometh: Directed by John Frankenheimer. With Lee Marvin, Fredric March, Robert Ryan, Jeff Bridges. A salesman with a sudden passion for reform has an idea to sell to his barfly buddies: throw away your pipe dreams. The drunkards, living in a flophouse above a saloon, resent the idea.
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- John Frankenheimer
- 1973-10-29
A film adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's play about a group of alcoholics in a Greenwich Village saloon in 1912. A salesman who claims to have given up his pipe dreams tries to convince them to do the same, but his motives are questioned and his sanity is doubted.
A film adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's play about a group of derelicts in a Greenwich Village saloon in 1912. The review praises the performances of Robert Ryan, Lee Marvin and Fredric March, and the direction of John Frankenheimer.
The Iceman Cometh is set in New York in 1912 in Harry Hope's downmarket Greenwich Village saloon and rooming house. The patrons, twelve men and three prostitutes, are dead-end alcoholics who spend every possible moment seeking oblivion in one another's company and trying to con or wheedle free drinks from Harry and the bartenders.
- Eugene O'Neill
- 1939
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The Iceman Cometh. Rent The Iceman Cometh on Prime Video, or buy it on Prime Video. Based on the play by Eugene O'Neill, this drama begins as the sad-sack patrons of a New York City bar...
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Overview. Set in 1912, inside a dive bar named The Last Chance Saloon, its destitute patrons eagerly await the arrival of Hickey, who arrives annually and props everyone up with free drinks and spirited stories of his travels.
