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The Iceman Cometh (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
239 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Posters
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1973 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
John Frankenheimer

Written By:
John Frankenheimer
Thomas Quinn Curtiss
Eugene O'Neill

Actors:
Lee Marvin ..... Theodore 'Hickey' Hickman
Fredric March ..... Harry Hope
Robert Ryan ..... Larry Slade
Jeff Bridges ..... Don Parritt
Bradford Dillman ..... Willie Oban
Sorrell Booke ..... Hugo Kalmar
Hildy Brooks ..... Margie
Juno Dawson ..... Pearl (as Nancy Juno Dawson)
Evans Evans ..... Cora
Martyn Green ..... Cecil Lewis
Moses Gunn ..... Joe Mott
Clifton James ..... Pat McGloin
John McLiam ..... Jimmy Tomorrow
Stephen Pearlman ..... Chuck Morelo
Tom Pedi ..... Rocky Pioggi

Synopsis:

Eugene O'Neill's 1947 Broadway play The Iceman Cometh has been described by one theatre historian as "a strikingly powerful, if discursive, study of man's desperate need for illusions." At 139 minutes, this film version of Iceman Cometh pares away nearly two hours of O'Neill's more ponderous passages, with entirely satisfactory results. The story 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. As the central character Hickey, a loser who's convinced himself that he's a winner, Lee Marvin can't match the power that O'Neill specialist Jason Robards brought to the role in a memorable 1960 TV adaptation. Still, Robert Ryan as Larry Slade and Fredric March as Harry Hope (his last film role) are first-rate. The Iceman Cometh was one of a series of prestige productions presented by the American Film Theatre.

Lee Marvin, in a tour de force performance, stars as the charasmatic Hickey, a reformed drunk whose smiling facade masks shocking self deception. With performances the LA Times described as "quite simply, perfect", The Iceman Cometh is the AFT's greatest achievment.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 14 November, 2006.

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