The Iceman Cometh | movie | 1973 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Set in 1912, inside a dive bar named The Last Chance Saloon, its destitute patrons eagerly await the arrival of Hickey,  | dG1fSEdRZThrdDVnTXM

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00:00The greatest American work of the theater is now an extraordinary film.

00:05Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh.

00:17Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh, perhaps the most important dramatic work of our time.

00:23Now it is a magnificent motion picture, brilliantly directed by John Frankenheimer.

00:30Lee Marvin plays the crucial role of Hickey, a destroyer of dreams in a world of lost souls.

00:38My jolly old pal, I have got you.

00:44Hello, George.

00:45All right, here you go.

00:46Thank you, George.

00:48I see you.

00:50I don't know what, George.

00:50The No Chance Saloon.

00:54Bedrock bar.

00:56The End of the Line Cafe, the bottom of the Sea Rath Skeleton.

01:00Don't you notice the beautiful calm in the atmosphere?

01:05That's because this is the last harbor.

01:07No one here has to worry about where they're going next, because they can go no further.

01:13And yet, as I said over and over again, it's exactly those damn lying tomorrow dreams

01:17that keep you from making peace with yourself.

01:19So you've got to kill them, like I did mine.

01:21You've got to believe me that I only sold them out just to get a few lousy dollars to blow it in a whore.

01:25Now, there's no other reason I'm...

01:26Well, I love them.

01:27Please, will you leave me in peace?

01:28Come on and get paralyzed.

01:31I'll be glad to see one bum in his stump like natural.

01:34Ah, you bloody dutch scum!

01:37You can't do that to yourself, Jimmy.

01:38Well, one drink on top of your hangover on an empty stomach, you'll be aure-eyed.

01:43Tomorrow?

01:45I'll be in good shape tomorrow.

01:50Take that hand off me!

01:58This, says distinguished critic Pauline Cale, is pure American poetry performed by the sort of cast

02:04that rarely gathers in a theater.

02:07Lee Marvin, Frederick March, Robert Ryan,

02:11The Iceman Cometh, Jeff Bridges, Bradford Dillman, The Iceman Cometh.

02:17Time Magazine says The Iceman Cometh is a success indeed.

02:22Not merely a worthy production of a great play.

02:25It also possesses its own greatness.

02:27And Newsweek calls The Iceman Cometh a great movie of a great play.

02:33Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh.