Fresh
We see a fairly dazzling array of performances, built by Frankenheimer cunningly and steadily.
Michael Feingold, Village Voice
The Iceman Cometh
They drank and they dreamed...tomorrow they would conquer the world...then along came Hickey.
1973 · 3h 59m · PG
Drama
Directed by
John Frankenheimer
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The Iceman Cometh
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- John Frankenheimer Director
- Lee Marvin as Theodore 'Hickey' Hickman
- Fredric March as Harry Hope
- Robert Ryan as Larry Slade
- Jeff Bridges as Don Parritt
- Bradford Dillman as Willie Oban
- Sorrell Booke as Hugo Kalmar
- Hildy Brooks as Margie
- Juno Dawson as Pearl (as Nancy Juno Dawson)
- Evans Evans as Cora
- Martyn Green Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
88%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Eugene O'Neill's great, heavy, simplistic, mechanical, beautiful play has been given a straightforward, faithful production in handsome, dark-toned color.
Pauline Kael, New Yorker
Fresh
The play is an inescapably great experience, and that fact isn't muffled by this film.
Nora Sayre, New York Times
Fresh
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.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Rotten
A stiff in spite of an interesting cast.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
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