Average Rating: 6.9/10
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Average Rating: 6.9/10
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Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 1
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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
PG, 3 hr. 59 min.
Drama, Action & Adventure, Romance, Classics, Science Fiction & Fantasy
John Frankenheimer , Clarence Fok Yiu-leung
Thomas Quinn Curtiss, Eugene O'Neill, Johnny Mak, Stephen Siu
Nov 10, 1973 Limited
Apr 1, 2003
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.
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.
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.
A stiff in spite of an interesting cast.
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.
A series of powerful performances and some sympathetic direction from Frankenheimer raise this above most of the American Film Theater's productions.
Really long. People really used to sit through 4 hour plays? And that's not counting the intermissions. Wow. Very interesting from an acting perspective. Some fine performances here.
July 14, 2011The Iceman Cometh (1973) I'll be honest... I watched this strictly for Lee Marvin even if it's a non-traditional Marvin role and that I'm also a fan of Robert Ryan and Fredric March. I'm sure the novel or original stage play are fantastic but that's exactly the weakness of this movie for me. This essentially is a
September 19, 2008
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