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Iceman Cometh (Disc 1) (1960)
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James Broderick,
Myron McCormick,
Tom Pedi,
Farrell Pelly,
Ronald Radd,
Robert Redford,
Jason Robards
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| Director:
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Sidney Lumet
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Drama,
Classics,
Television,
Documentary,
Independent
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| Studio: |
Image Ent.
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Subtitles: |
[None]
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Length: |
210 mins
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"One of the most electrifying evenings in the history of television drama."-The New York Herald Tribune
Jason Robards became an overnight star with his indelible performance as the glad-handling, doom-ridden Hickey in the legendary 1956 Circle-in-the-Square revival of Eugene O'Neill's towering masterpiece (first staged in 1939).In his harrowing drama, O'Neill shines a harsh but compassionate spotlight on the failed lives, empty hopes, and perpetual pipe dreams of an assortment of down-and-out denizens of a seedy saloon, set in New York in 1912.Their sad, but complacent existences are rattled when Hickey arrives for his annual bender a changed man - forswearing alcohol and preaching a deliverance from "the lie of the pipe dream." As Variety originally wrote, "This 'Iceman' was a landmark for the video medium, a reference point for greatness in TV drama."
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