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1972
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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.
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The Iceman Cometh is one great film to go out on for not one, but two of the best players ever. This turned out to be the last performances for both Fredric March and Robert Ryan. In the case of Ryan he knew he was terminal and his performance has real poignancy.
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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- Drama
- John Frankenheimer
- 1973-10-29
The Iceman Cometh. Based on the play by Eugene O'Neill, this drama begins as the sad-sack patrons of a New York City bar await the arrival of salesman and drinking buddy Theodore Hickman (Lee...
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- John Frankenheimer
- PG
- Lee Marvin
May 30, 2021 · The Iceman Cometh (1973) – Review by Pauline Kael. The play is essentially an argument between Larry, an aging anarchist (Robert Ryan), and Hickey (Lee Marvin); they speak to each other as equals, and everything else is orchestrated around them.
The Iceman Cometh is one of the handful of five-star entries in this unique experiment that was the American Film Theatre. Take an afternoon or an evening, pour a glass of Scotch, and sit back to savor this excellent example of actors—and a superb playwright—at work.
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.
