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- 1973
- PG
- The American Film Theatre
- 3 h 59 m
- 1973
- PG
- The American Film Theatre
- 3 h 59 m
Summary 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.
Directed By: John Frankenheimer
Written By: Edward Anhalt, Thomas Quinn Curtiss, Eugene O'Neill
- 1973
- PG
- The American Film Theatre
- 3 h 59 m
- 1973
- PG
- The American Film Theatre
- 3 h 59 m
The Iceman Cometh
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Summary 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.
Directed By: John Frankenheimer
Written By: Edward Anhalt, Thomas Quinn Curtiss, Eugene O'Neill
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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73% Positive
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27% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
76
73% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
27% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
As the suddenly somber Hickey, the traveling salesman who rudely stops regaling assorted skid-row barflies with flip patter in 1912 New York, Lee Marvin is very good in a role that Jason Robards always owned. Otherwise, the actors are all on a "wow" level. [04 Apr 2003]
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.
One of the best American Film Theatre production is a potent transcription of Eugene O'Neill's great barroom drama, set in 1912, with Lee Marvin as doomed gladhander Hickey--a role made famous on stage by Jason Robards--and a matchless supporting cast. [31 Oct 2003, p.C5]
Eugene O'Neill's great, heavy, simplistic, mechanical, beautiful play has been given a straightforward, faithful production in handsome, dark-toned color.
The play is an inescapably great experience, and that fact isn't muffled by this film.
From the opening frames of John Frankenheimer's film version of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh, you get the feeling that you're being taken on a guided tour of one of the greatest American plays ever written, instead of seeing a screen adaptation with a life of its own.
A stiff in spite of an interesting cast.
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Production Company
Cinévision Ltée,
The American Film Theatre
Release Date Oct 29, 1973
Duration 3 h 59 m
Rating PG
Genres
Tagline They drank and they dreamed...tomorrow they would conquer the world...then along came Hickey.
Awards
National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
National Board of Review, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
