A series of powerful performances and some sympathetic direction from Frankenheimer raise this above most of the American Film Theater's productions.
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08/24/04
The Iceman Cometh (1973)
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Reviews Counted:8
Fresh:7
Rotten:1
Average Rating:6.9/10
Runtime: 3 hrs 59 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Produced as part of the American Film Theater series, which produced films of classic plays with top-shelf actors and directors, this adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's THE ICEMAN COMETH is infused... [More]
Starring: Lee Marvin, Jeff Bridges, Fredric March, Robert Ryan
Director: John Frankenheimer
Reviews for The Iceman Cometh
1 - 8 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Top CriticThe scene-stealer is Robert Ryan, one of cinema's forgotten great actors. He delivers a superlative performance as the radical with dark reason and fearful purpose, bringing a new, almost heroic dimension to the character.
05/28/08
We see a fairly dazzling array of performances, built by Frankenheimer cunningly and steadily.
05/28/08
Eugene O’Neill’s great, heavy, simplistic, mechanical, beautiful play has been given a straightforward, faithful production in handsome, dark-toned color.
05/28/08
No review available.
08/12/05
The play is an inescapably great experience, and that fact isn't muffled by this film.
05/09/05
Top CriticFor four hours we live in these two rooms and discover the secrets of these people, and at the end we have gone deeper, seen more, and will remember more, than with most of the other movies of our life.
10/23/04
Top CriticA stiff in spite of an interesting cast.
02/05/04
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