The Iceman Cometh (1960)

Directed by

Sidney Lumet

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

4h

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 8 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In a dimly lit bar in 1912 New York, a group of down-and-out men drink and dream of a better tomorrow. A traveling salesman arrives and forces them to confront their self-deceptions.

slow-burnbleakconversation-heavytheatricalclaustrophobicmelancholicexistentialintimate

What happens

"The Iceman Cometh" is a 1960 television production of the 1946 Eugene O'Neill play of the same title. Two separate parts were originally broadcast as episodes of The Play of the Week by the television network and syndication service the NTA Film Network (or NTA). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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