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The Iceman Cometh is a play written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill in 1939. First published in 1946, the play premiered on Broadway at the Martin Beck Theatre on October 9, 1946, directed by Eddie Dowling, where it ran for 136 performances before closing on March 15, 1947. It has subsequently been adapted for the screen multiple times.
- Eugene O'Neill
- 1939
The Iceman Cometh, tragedy in four acts by Eugene O’Neill, written in 1939 and produced and published in 1946 and considered by many to be his finest work. The drama exposes the human need for illusion and hope as antidotes to the natural condition of despair.
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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.
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- John Frankenheimer
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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 Iceman Cometh Full Play Summary. The play opens on an early summer morning in 1912 in the crowded back room of Harry Hope's saloon. The majority of the customers sleep slumped over their tables. Rocky, the night bartender, sneaks Larry Slade, a former Syndicalist-Anarchist, a drink of whiskey.
In 1912, the patrons of 'The Last Chance Saloon' have gathered for their evening of whiskey to contemplate their lost faith and dreams, when Hickey (Lee Marvin) arrives.
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The Iceman Cometh. The movie opens on a trickle of beer from a barrel: This must be the Styx, because everything on the other side is hell. The camera tracks to the back room of an Irish saloon in Greenwich Village, summer, 1912, where the regulars are tossed about like sleeping rag dolls.
