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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.
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.
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.
Eugene O'Neill's "The Iceman Cometh" is the work of a man who has very nearly abandoned all hope. The only characters in it who summon up the courage to act (not to act positively, but to act at all) are Hickey, who kills his wife, and the boy Don, who kills himself.
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...
The Iceman Cometh is set in the summer of 1912 in Harry Hope’s saloon, a seedy establishment on the downtown West Side of New York. All of the play’s action takes place either in the bar or the back room of the saloon, visually affirming O’Neill’s intention that the bar is a world unto itself.
The Iceman Cometh is a play by Eugene O’Neill that was first published in 1946. The play is set in Harry Hope’s saloon on the West Side of Manhattan in 1912, and explores the lives of a group of down-and-out alcoholics.
