The Iceman Cometh
“They drank and they dreamed...tomorrow they would conquer the world...then along came Hickey.”
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.
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Cast
18 people
Lee Marvin
Theodore 'Hickey' Hickman
Known for
The Dirty Dozen
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Fredric March
Harry Hope
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The Best Years of Our Lives
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Robert Ryan
Larry Slade
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The Wild Bunch
Bad Day at Black Rock
Jeff Bridges
Don Parritt
Known for
The Big Lebowski
Iron Man
Bradford Dillman
Willie Oban
Known for
Piranha
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
Sorrell Booke
Hugo Kalmar
Known for
The Dukes of Hazzard
Scooby-Doo! Meets the Boo Brothers
Hildy Brooks
Margie
Known for
White Palace
The Wild Life
Juno Dawson
Pearl
Also in
Hey Good Lookin'
Kung Fu
Evans Evans
Cora
Known for
Bonnie and Clyde
Prophecy
Martyn Green
Cecil Lewis
Also in
The Mikado
A Lovely Way to Die
Moses Gunn
Joe Mott
Known for
The NeverEnding Story
Heartbreak Ridge
Clifton James
Pat McGloin
Known for
Live and Let Die
Eight Men Out
John Frankenheimer Director · Thomas Quinn Curtiss Screenplay Eugene O'Neill Author
Budget $800K · United States release November 10, 1973 · Produced in United States
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Budget
$800,000
Production
Cinévision Ltée
Production
The American Film Theatre
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United States
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · November 10, 1973
Theatrical
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