The Iceman Cometh (1973 film)
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| Directed by | John Frankenheimer |
| Produced by | Ely A. Landau |
| Written by | Eugene O'Neill (play) Thomas Quinn Curtiss (screenplay) |
| Starring | Lee Marvin Fredric March Robert Ryan Jeff Bridges |
| Cinematography | Ralph Woolsey |
| Editing by | Harold F. Kress |
| Distributed by | American Film Theatre |
| Release date(s) | 10 November 1973 |
| Running time | 239 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Iceman Cometh is a 1973 film directed by John Frankenheimer. The screenplay was written by Thomas Quinn Curtiss, based on Eugene O'Neill's 1939 play of the same name. The film was screened at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival, but wasn't entered into the main competition.[1]
This was the last film for both Robert Ryan and Fredric March. Ryan died before the film's release. It was the first film to have two intermissions.
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[edit] Cast
- 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
- George Voskovec – Piet Wetjoen
[edit] Awards
- Robert Ryan won a Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor, National Board of Review Award for Best Actor and a Special Award from the National Society of Film Critics for his performance as Larry Slade.
[edit] Production credits
- Associate producer – Les Landau
- Supervising producer – Robert A. Goldston
- Casting – Lynn Stalmaster
- Production Design – Jack Martin Smith
- Set Decoration – Raphael Bretton
- Costume Design – Dorothy Jeakins
- Production executive – Jonathan Burrows
[edit] References
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: The Iceman Cometh". festival-cannes.com. http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/2135/year/1976.html. Retrieved 2009-05-10.
[edit] External links
- The Iceman Cometh at the Internet Movie Database
- The Iceman Cometh at Rotten Tomatoes
- The Iceman Cometh at AllRovi
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