The Iceman Cometh (1973)
They drank and they dreamed...tomorrow they would conquer the world...then along came Hickey.
239 min
Set 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.
- Release date
- November 10, 1973
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Lee Marvin as Hickey
- Fredric March as Harry Hope
- Robert Ryan as Larry Slade
- Jeff Bridges as Don Parritt
- Bradford Dillman as Willie Oban
- Sorrell Booke as Hugo
- Hildy Brooks as Margie
- Juno Dawson as Pearl
- Evans Evans as Cora
- Martyn Green as Cecil Lewis
Crew
- John Frankenheimer · Director
- Edward Anhalt · Writer
- Thomas Quinn Curtiss · Writer
- Eugene O'Neill · Writer
- Ely A. Landau · Producer
- Ralph Woolsey · Cinematographer
- Harold F. Kress · Editor
- Lynn Stalmaster · Casting director
- Jack Martin Smith · Production designer