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The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O'Neill
The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O'Neill









The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O

Even with editing, John Frankenheimer's filmed version of the play runs four hours plus two intermissions. Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune awarded three-and-a-half stars out of four and stated: "The pleasures of this great play are so many and so strong that this frequently ordinary rendering of it on film leaves its power virtually undiminished." Ĭharles Champlin of the Los Angeles Times wrote: "'No play is too long that holds the interest of its audience,' Eugene O'Neill once told an interviewer. It requires stamina, of course, to sit through four hours, but the experience is very special." Variety declared: "The excellence of the cast alone, and the fame of the work and its author make this filmed stage play worth the ticket. Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote in a less enthusiastic review that while watching the film "you get the feeling that you're being taken on a guided tour of one of the greatest American plays ever written, instead of seeing a screen adaptation with a life of its own." Roger Ebert gave the film his highest possible grade of four stars and wrote: "The play was clearly too difficult to be done as an ordinary commercial movie, but now it has been preserved, with a series of brilliant performances and a virtuoso directing achievement, in what has to be a definitive film version." Ebert ranked The Iceman Cometh fifth on his year-end list of the best films of 1973. Pauline Kael said in her review that you only have to look at photos of O'Neill to see this was a face with no illusions. I think you have to live your life without illusions, not with them. I tried to show Hickey as sane and not the way I've seen him interpreted, as insane. We were like a repertory company we never wanted it to end. It was a marvelous movie – up til now (1974) my best experience. We cut 1 hour and 20 minutes out of the original, but by the time we'd finished it we'd put back in an hour.

The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O

We found the most difficult thing was to cut it. Juno Dawson (as Nancy Juno Dawson) as Pearl.Lee Marvin as Theodore "Hickey" Hickman.( June 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)











The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O'Neill