The Iceman Cometh (1973)
Average Rating: 6.9/10
Reviews Counted: 8
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 1
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Average Rating: 6.9/10
Critic Reviews: 5
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 1
No consensus yet.
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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
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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
Cast
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Lee Marvin
Hickey -
Robert Ryan
Larry Slade -
Fredric March
Harry Pope -
Jeff Bridges
Don Parritt -
Sorrell Booke
Hugo Kalmar -
Hildy Brooks
Margie -
Bart Burns
Moran -
Nancy Juno Dawson
Pearl -
Bradford Dillman
Willie Oban -
Evans Evans
Cora -
Martyn Green
The Capt. -
Moses Gunn
Joe Mott -
Clifton James
Pat McGloin -
John McLiam
Jimmy Tomorrow -
Stephen Pearlman
Chuck Morello -
Tom Pedi
Rocky Pioggi -
George Voskovec
Piet Wetjoen -
Don Charles McGovern
Lieb -
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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.
Top CriticEugene 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.
Audience Reviews for The Iceman Cometh
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- 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.
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Foreign Titles
- The Iceman Cometh (Ji dong qixia) (DE)
- The Iceman Cometh (Ji dong qixia) (UK)
