The Iceman Cometh
Summary:
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 %... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Lee Marvin - (Hickey)
Robert Ryan - (Larry Slade)
Fredric March - (Harry Pope)
Jeff Bridges - (Don Parritt)
Sorrell Booke - (Hugo Kalmar)
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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 ... Continue >>
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