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6.0Set 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.
Released: 1973-11-10239 minDir: John FrankenheimerDrama
Cast
- Lee Marvin as Theodore 'Hickey' Hickman
- Fredric March as Harry Hope
- Robert Ryan as Larry Slade
- Jeff Bridges as Don Parritt
- Bradford Dillman as Willie Oban
- Sorrell Booke as Hugo Kalmar
Themes
- prostitute
- saloon
- despair
- based on play or musical
- alcoholic
- traveling salesman
- greenwich village
- barflies
- 1910s
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Ratings
IMDb
7.2/10
1,948 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
92%
Metacritic
76/100
- Year
- 1973
- Runtime
- 239 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Rated
- PG
- Awards
- 3 wins & 1 nomination total
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Director
- John Frankenheimer
- Screenwriter
- Eugene O'Neill
- Cast member
- Moses Gunn
- Producer
- Ely Landau
- Duration
- 234
- FilmAffinity ID
- 119106
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- publication date
- 1973-01-01
- title
- The Iceman Cometh
- film editor
- Harold F. Kress
- review score
- 92%
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