The Iceman Cometh
About The Iceman Cometh
Set in 1912, inside a dive bar named The Last Chance Saloon, its destitute patrons eagerly await the arrival of Hickey, who arrives annually and props everyone up with free drinks and spirited stories of his travels. However, when Hickey does show up this year, it is with a message of temperance and an exhortation to give up hopeless dreams and face reality.
The Iceman Cometh (1973) is a drama film directed by John Frankenheimer. Released in November 1973, it runs 239 minutes.
The film is filed under alcoholic, 1910s, saloon, and despair. It is adapted from a stage production.
Lee Marvin appears as Theodore 'Hickey' Hickman, Fredric March as Harry Hope, Robert Ryan as Larry Slade, and Jeff Bridges as Don Parritt. The screenplay is by Thomas Quinn Curtiss. In the United States it streams on Broadway HD Amazon Channel and Kino Film Collection.
The Music Man, The Phantom of the Opera, and First Reformed make useful companions to The Iceman Cometh, all filed under traveling salesman and based on play or musical. It carries a PG rating.