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The Iceman Cometh

The Iceman Cometh (1973)

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80

Average Rating: 6.9/10
Critic Reviews: 5
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 1

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69

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Average Rating: 3.8/5
User Ratings: 605

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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

Apr 1, 2003

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All Critics (8) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (7) | Rotten (1) | DVD (2)

We see a fairly dazzling array of performances, built by Frankenheimer cunningly and steadily.

May 28, 2008 Full Review Source: Village Voice
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Eugene O'Neill's great, heavy, simplistic, mechanical, beautiful play has been given a straightforward, faithful production in handsome, dark-toned color.

May 28, 2008 Full Review Source: New Yorker
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The play is an inescapably great experience, and that fact isn't muffled by this film.

May 9, 2005 Full Review Source: New York Times
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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.

October 23, 2004 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times
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A stiff in spite of an interesting cast.

February 5, 2004 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader
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The scene-stealer is Robert Ryan, one of cinema's forgotten great actors. He delivers a superlative performance as the radical with dark reason and fearful purpose, bringing a new, almost heroic dimension to the character.

May 28, 2008 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide
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A series of powerful performances and some sympathetic direction from Frankenheimer raise this above most of the American Film Theater's productions.

August 24, 2004 Full Review Source: Film4

Audience Reviews for The Iceman Cometh

There isn't a bad performance in the film, but there are three of such greatness they mesmerize us. The best is by the late Robert Ryan, as Larry, and this is possibly the finest performance of his career.
October 4, 2007
This is fantastic play adapted to film. It is long, very long. I like Lee Marvin but he has always been an icon, to me, and not a powerful actor. After this film I still don't he is a very good actor however this role suits him and with the supporting cast he pulls off a very powerful performance. Loved it
April 13, 2012
    1. Larry Slade: I saw that if men wanted to be saved from themselves that would mean they would have to give up greed. They wouldn't pay that price for liberty, so I said to the world God bless all here and may the best man win. Die of gluttony. I took a seat in the grandstand of philosophical detachment. Fall asleep watching the cannibals do their death dance.
    – Submitted by Jason H (12 months ago)

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