The Iceman Cometh (1973)
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88% of critics liked it
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69% of users liked it
(605 ratings)
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… More 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 Hope. The Iceman Cometh was one of a series of prestige productions presented by the American Film Theatre. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- John Frankenheimer, Clarence Fok Yiu-leung
- Written By
- Thomas Quinn Curtiss, Eugene O'Neill, Johnny Mak, Stephen Siu
- Genres
- Drama, Action & Adventure, Romance, Classics, Science Fiction & Fantasy
PG,
- In Theaters
- Nov 10, 1973 Limited
- On DVD
- Apr 1, 2003
Critic Reviews
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Michael Feingold, Village Voice
We see a fairly dazzling array of performances, built by Frankenheimer cunningly and steadily.
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Pauline Kael, New Yorker
Eugene O'Neill's great, heavy, simplistic, mechanical, beautiful play has been given a straightforward, faithful production in handsome, dark-toned color.
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Nora Sayre, New York Times
The play is an inescapably great experience, and that fact isn't muffled by this film.
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Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
For four hours we live in these two rooms and discover the secrets of these people, and at the end we have gone deeper, seen more, and will remember more, than with most of the other movies of our life.
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Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
A stiff in spite of an interesting cast.
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Cast
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Lee Marvin
as Hickey
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Robert Ryan
as Larry Slade
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Fredric March
as Harry Pope
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Jeff Bridges
as Don Parritt
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Sorrell Booke
as Hugo Kalmar
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Hildy Brooks
as Margie
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Bart Burns
as Moran
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Nancy Juno Dawson
as Pearl
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Bradford Dillman
as Willie Oban
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Evans Evans
as Cora
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Martyn Green
as The Capt.
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Moses Gunn
as Joe Mott
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Clifton James
as Pat McGloin
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John McLiam
as Jimmy Tomorrow
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Stephen Pearlman
as Chuck Morello
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Tom Pedi
as Rocky Pioggi
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George Voskovec
as Piet Wetjoen
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Don Charles McGovern
as Lieb
- Biao Yuen
- Maggie Cheung
- Wah Yuen
- Sarah Lee
- Elvina Kong
