The Iceman Cometh | movie | 1960 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Theodore Hickman, a hardware salesman, makes by-yearly visits to Harry Hope's 1910-era waterfront bar for his periodical | dG1fYWdRN1dRWGdHcWc

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00:01The greatest American work of the theater is now an extraordinary film.

00:06Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh.

00:18Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh, perhaps the most important dramatic work of our time.

00:24Now it is a magnificent motion picture, brilliantly directed by John Frankenheimer.

00:30And all kinds of weather.

00:33Lee Marvin plays the crucial role of Hickey, a destroyer of dreams in a world of lost souls.

00:53This is No Chance Saloon, Bedrock Bar, end of the line cafe.

01:00Bottom of the sea, Rathskeller.

01:03Don't you notice the beautiful calm in the atmosphere?

01:07That's because this is the last harbor.

01:10No one here has to worry about where they're going next,

01:13because they can go no further.

01:15And yet, as I said over and over again,

01:17it's exactly those damn lying tomorrow dreams

01:19that keep you from making peace with yourself.

01:21So you've got to kill them, like I did mine.

01:23You've got to believe me that I only sold them out

01:25just to get a few lousy dollars to blow them in a whore.

01:27Now, there's no other reason on it.

01:28Will you leave me in peace?

01:30Come on and get paralyzed.

01:32I'll be glad to see one bum in his dump like natural.

01:35Cry, you bloody good scum!

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

01:40Well, one drink on top of your hangover on an empty stomach,

01:43you'll be already eyed.

01:44Tomorrow?

01:46I'll be in good shape tomorrow.

01:51Take that hand off me!

01:58This, says distinguished critic Pauline Kale,

02:02is pure American poetry performed by the sort of cast

02:06that rarely gathers in a theater.

02:08Lee Marvin, Frederick March, Robert Ryan, Jeff Bridges,

02:15Bradford Dillman, The Iceman Cometh.

02:18Time Magazine says The Iceman Cometh is a success indeed.

02:23Not merely a worthy production of a great play,

02:25it also possesses its own greatness.

02:28And Newsweek calls The Iceman Cometh a great movie of a great play.

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