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Budget. $800,000 [2] 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. The film was produced by Ely Landau for the American Film Theatre, which from 1973 to 1975 presented thirteen film adaptations of noted plays.
Set in 1912, inside a dive bar named The Last Chance Saloon, its destitute patrons eagerly await the arrival of Hickey, who arrives annually and props everyone up with free drinks and spirited stories of his travels. However, when Hickey does show up this year, it is with a message of temperance and an exhortation to give up hopeless dreams and face reality.
The Iceman Cometh. The Iceman Cometh is a play written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill [3] in 1939. First published in 1946, [3] the play premiered on Broadway at the Martin Beck Theatre on October 9, 1946, directed by Eddie Dowling, where it ran for 136 performances before closing on March 15, 1947. It has subsequently been adapted for ...
- Eugene O'Neill
- 1939
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.
- (1.9K)
- Drama
- John Frankenheimer
- 1973-10-29
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Roger Ebert. December 10, 1973. 4 min read. 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.
