Eugene O'Neill's The iceman cometh [videorecording] / American Express Films, Inc. and the Ely Landau Organization, Inc. present The American Film Theatre ; in association with Cinevision Ltee ; producer, Ely Landau ; writer, Thomas Quinn Curtiss ; director, John Frankenheimer.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: K276 DVD | Kino on VideoSeries: American Film Theatre. Collection 1Publication details: [New York] : Kino on Video, [2003], c1973.Edition: Widescreen edDescription: 2 videodiscs (239 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inOther title: - Iceman cometh
- Text editor, Thomas Quinn Curtiss ; cinematography, Ralph Woolsey ; editor, Harold F. Kress.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
John Frankenheimer's screen version of Eugene O'Neill's 1947 Broadway play The Iceman Cometh is set in 1912 at Harry Hope's dingy waterfront saloon. On the occasion of Hope's birthday, several derelicts enter the scene to pontificate on the lives they'd planned, the lives they still dream about, and the wasted lives they wound up with. The cast features Lee Marvin as Hickey, a loser who's convinced himself that he's a winner; Robert Ryan as Larry Slade; and Fredric March (his last film role) as Harry Hope. The Iceman Cometh was one of a series of prestige productions presented by the American Film Theatre. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Based on the play by Eugene O'Neill.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1973.
Special features: Theatrical trailer; "Eugene O'Neill and The iceman cometh" and essay by Michael Feingold; the AFT cinebill for the movie; stills gallery; an interview with Edie Landau; "Ely Landau: in front of the camera" AFT promotional reel, 1974; the American Film Theatre trailer gallery; The American Film Theatre scrapbook.
Widescreen format (aspect ratio 1.85:1).
Text editor, Thomas Quinn Curtiss ; cinematography, Ralph Woolsey ; editor, Harold F. Kress.
Lee Marvin, Fredric March, Robert Ryan, Jeff Bridges, Bradford Dillman, Sorrell Booke, Hildy Brooks, Nancy Juno Dawson, Evan Evans, Moses Gunn, Clifton James, Tom Pedi, George Voskovec.
In the faded, Vermeer-like light of Harry Hope's 1912 New York skid row bar, a ragtag group of fallen men await the annual arrival of their friend Hickey. But now Hickey is sober, and he wants his drunken friends to follow the same path.
MPAA rating: PG.
DVD, enhanced for 16x9 TVs.