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The Iceman Cometh

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The Iceman Cometh
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PG,3hrs 59min
Genre:
Drama
Release:
1973
Directors:
John Frankenheimer, Kurt Neumann
Distributor:
Kino
Starring:
Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, Fredric March  ...more
Synopsis: John Frankenheimer's screen version of Eugene O'Neill's 1947 Broadway play The Iceman Cometh is set in 1912 at Harry Hope's dingy waterfront saloon. On the occasion of Hope's birthday, several derelicts enter the scene to pontificate on the lives they'd planned, the lives they still dream about, and the wasted lives they wound up with. The cast features Lee Marvin as Hickey, a loser who's convinced himself that he's a winner; Robert Ryan as Larry Slade; and Fredric March (his last film role) as Harry ... Full Synopsis
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Craig Butler, AMG Review
The Iceman Cometh is a towering, powerful stage play that inevitably loses some of its impact when transferred to the screen, even in as fine a production as this. Part of the reason is that Eugene O'Neill's beautiful language is theatrical in nature and therefore doesn't come across as well in the more naturalistic milieu of the cinema. But a bigger problem is that Iceman is all about a group of people ... Full Review
Featured Cast
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Lee Marvin
Hickey
Robert Ryan
Larry Slade
Fredric March
Harry Pope
Jeff Bridges
Don Parritt
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Drew Barrymore attends "The Iceman Cometh" opening at Brooks Atkinson Theater in New York in April...
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