The Iceman Cometh

1973 · 3h 59m · 6.1

Drama

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.

John Frankenheimer

Lee Marvin, Fredric March, Robert Ryan, Jeff Bridges, Bradford Dillman, Sorrell Booke, Hildy Brooks, Juno Dawson, Evans Evans, Martyn Green

prostitute, saloon, despair, based on play or musical, alcoholic, traveling salesman, greenwich village, barflies, 1910s