FREE ON YOUTUBE John Frankenheimer - The Iceman Cometh

FREE ON YOUTUBE (YOU FIND THE WHOLE FILM FREI AUF YOUTUBE) Everything begins with a drop of beer from a barrel. Is that the Styx to the other side hell? It has to be that way! An Irish salon, 1912, Greenwich Village. A room full of drinkers, the whores upstairs. They are all waiting for the "Iceman" Hickey (Lee Marvin). The owner of this bar is Harry Hope (Fredric March). A good joke, because he gave up all hope a long time ago. He hasn't even left his house in twenty years. This house is the end of the road. Every man here has a dream, something that keeps him alive. Except Larry Slade (Robert Ryan). These dreams go something like this: Tomorrow one of them will be sober. Tomorrow he gets his job back. Or: Tomorrow he marries one of the whores from above and makes her a respectable woman. But in The Iceman Cometh almost nobody has the strength to act. I don't mean to act positively, but to do anything at all. Hickey will kill his wife, so he belongs to the minority that has the courage to act. The young Don kills himself. Larry is the most intelligent person in the room. He comes to the conclusion that death is to be welcomed. Somehow everyone here is dependent on each other because they know each other. That is not love, but hate that unites them. The Iceman Cometh is considered the greatest drama of Eugene O'Neill. Nevertheless, it is hardly performed because it is over four hours long. In 1960 Sidney-Lumet tried his hand at a TV version, thirteen years later John Frankenheimer, the specialist for intimate theatre. Of course, it was impossible for this play to become a commercial cinema film. All the more welcome is Frankenheimer's ambition! The result is a virtuoso film with outstanding actors! Nobody plays badly, some even big! Robert Ryan's Larry has such wise and sad eyes. Ryan's game almost turns Larry into a tender character! And every aspiring actor should consider Lee Marvin a Hickey! A man who is said to have found peace. A peace based on murder! A tortured lunatic or a true believer! Fredric March as Harry Hope seems to be at least a bit better than his guests. He tolerates them because he lives off them. So we dive deeper and deeper into these rooms. We see more and will remember more than most of the films we will see in this life.
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