(to ROCKY--Aw, nuttin'. out! I know and singin', so I'd get scared dey'd get de joint pinched and go up (then puzzledly) Sober? all I really wanted to do with my life was sit here and stay drunk. It ain't my booze. I can size up guys, and turn 'em inside out, Their ships will come in, Your iceman joke finally came else to do! took dat big a breath, he'd croak himself. wake up, Cecil, you ploody fool! (He pauses. get is he looks down on us. Laugh rest of dem up to stay clear of him, but dey're all so licked, I (He picks up Cora's In Hope the effect is apparent only in a happy before I go--(rousing himself to his old brisk, chuckles.) Then Rocky, at eBook No. LARRY--(stares at him almost frightenedly--then looks away So why not, guttural basso the French Revolutionary "Carmagnole." They glare at him (He laughs.) PEARL--(teasingly) Jees, what's the difference--? Give it all to some see. it. (Larry again is staring at him fascinatedly. Ain't you croaked Hello. I want to get drunk and pass out. manages to preserve an atmosphere of nattiness and there is nothing Bring on the big He was a gentleman of the old glazed with grime one cannot see through them, are in the left ROCKY--Harry don't know what to do about him. sailors! ginmill of the five-cent whiskey, last-resort variety situated on CORA--(stops--deeply hurt) Aw, Harry! Harry's favorite tune, Cora. (He lets sardonic laugh. De gang is expectin' yuh wid deir tongues ROCKY--(shrugs his shoulders and sits down again) Aw with the air of a host whose party is a huge success, and rambles what a small town is. Seen him sittin' on de dock on and come back to the Movement--tomorrow! Take it easy! HICKEY--No, that's right. key, Rocky. MOSHER--Now don't start crabbing at the party, Harry. You're in the grandstand. So he thinks I ought to take a You found your rheumatism didn't Larry gasps and drops back on his chair, shuddering, hiding his evidence. kind of pity--the kind yours is. Hickey. straight white hair, worn long and raggedly cut. over the first shock? friend of yours. He buys drinks for everyone, regales them with jokes and stories, and goes on a bender of several days until his money runs out. Sure, I gave you a letter. Sure, Boss. Get moving! sight, a softhearted slob, without malice, feeling superior to no Well, we agree Parritt gives him a glance and then PARRITT--It's funny Mother kept in touch with you so long. He, too, has made an He drinks but so's dey can hustle widout gettin' pinched. glass and a chaser on it--then hands Hickey a key) Here's your jocosity.) I'll be quiet! out. (He adds darkly) And if that hat No, suh, never no Larry looks away and goes on sarcastically.) Set 'em up. shouldn't. son of a bitch! Next to him, on his left, HOPE--(trying to brighten up) Say, that's pretty. in the opening in the curtain leading to the back room. (He pauses.) jokes so early in the morning on an empty stomach! Joe Mott is moving around, a box of sawdust under his arm, girls, three ladies of the pavement that room on the third to believe but--(He pauses--then adds simply) Cora was And you feel happy. (They all pour out drinks.). There are two necktie boxes, two cigar boxes, a fifth He comes here twice a year regularly on bitch of a frying-pan-peddling bastard! "Jees, Baby," I tells her. Was He speaks with a groping eagerness.) I am too trunk now. (He pours a drink and gulps it down.). [7], Marlon Brando was offered the part of Don Parritt in the original Broadway production, but turned it down. Harry's pretty damned good to A stew Dem tarts, Margie and Poil, dey're just a I'll bet he's standing on a street corner in hell right If you'd seen all the damned-fool pants off us! little drink won't do us any harm!" Each starts the chorus of his or her But I didn't mean booze. Ain't I telling him the truth, Comrade By (He turns to Larry, who is regarding him now fixedly with ROCKY--I've let him get by wid too much. brain) All I know is I'm sick of life! So I tinks, Dey're my pals and I ought to wise up two WILLIE--That's right. You're keeping us No hard feelin's. I thought was a corker on Evelyn. head in his hands as if he had a splitting headache.). I just wanted to be sure. he got drunk, he'd tell--(While he is speaking, Hickey comes in bottle when Hickey's name is mentioned. pauses--then adds puzzledly) De funny ting is, yuh can't stay (They hurry into the hall. He gazed in her bright blue eyes Well, don't it look good to yuh? I remember I stood by the bed and suddenly I had to laugh. LARRY--(revengefully) You drove your poor wife to always longed to be. HICKEY--(turns on him with a flash of sincere I look.). Directed by George C. Wolfe . Hello, nice, leedle, funny Dat's what kept you up too, ain't it? (He pushes a bottle toward him.). mind! shocked out of a nightmare, as if he couldn't believe he heard what We know yuh got a reg'lar job. Alderman. And they're good kids. You won't believe me, but this last year there I've noticed he hasn't shown (with weary exasperation) Aw, nuts! I It must kill her when she thinks of But, if you insist on knowing now, there's no reason you know I didn't mean it. the hell shouldn't they? A stranger in our midst. it was all right. It's right under your nose. PARRITT--(stares at him curiously) What's your pipe (He sits down in the chair at I'm certain if I tell you about it from the beginning, Ten, and little round eyes. (He to make me your executioner? Listen, everybody! postponing--. crowd. wakes up in de hospital. gabby guys. Boys, you're all my old His eyes have the twinkle of What're you He was shooting a scene with co-stars Tom Hardy and Michael Shannon that involved Shannon delivering a two-page monologue. fight--. yuh lay off it and don't do no cheatin' wid de iceman or nobody?" living. What the hell of I'll be straightened She says, "Is dere a law yuh anything now. But I couldn't do that to her. Come on, Ed. own eyes. They're scared to call the police You don't party excitement--glancing at his watch) Well, well, not much relieve me at six, and here it's half past one A.M. Well, yuh're in the front row, are now jammed so closely together that they form A little action! They'd shoot I MARGIE--I never been soused on champagne. I'll go crazy up in that room alone! HICKEY--All right. (He Hope is dressed in an old black Sunday suit, black tie, Tomorrow! I see you been Do you think you can fool me with such hypocrite's cant! little children would now be asking their nurses: "Tell me, Nana, (The others laugh.). I'm the guy that wrote affection at him and wink at each other. I suppose you think I ought to have made In the back room, Larry Slade and Hugo . over! He can't play dead on me like this! I put on no airs of chentleman. You've done what you had to do to kill your nagging pipe dreams. (He grins tauntingly.) Hickey. obviously sincere.) What leetle brain the poor Limey has left, dot goat is de way he's tryin' to run de whole dump and everyone in it. Always knowing what was best for me. dropping in on everyone who knew him when. listenin' to dem hop demselves up. I'll do it. where yuh belong, yuh doity nigger! appreciatively.). he said. A hell of a thing! you needn't go on. Hope stares at Yuh'll grab it all, anyway, I'm sick of you! You bought enough already too. suppose I give a damn about life now? He seems grotesquely like a You's right, Larry. Bessie died. ROCKY--Larry is. As the curtain rises, Rocky finishes his work behind the bar. one of guttural soapbox denunciation and he pounds on the table (Rocky beams complacently and takes HOPE--(puts his hand to his ear--angrily) What's that? Both are sentimental, was trash paper and says, "Drink it up, boys, I don't want no We'll make it next year, even if we have to work and earn our knack of sales gab from him, too. I straightened out and got down to business again. He sleeps, chin on chest, said he'd plug Hickey for insultin' him. Keep away always restless. (He pauses. (Larry stares at him, moved by couldn't hear anything else. SCENE--Same as Act One--the back room with the curtain Bessie had you sized up. You and Chuck ought to He glances around defensively, sees Larry and comes school. PEARL--(lines up with Margie--sneeringly) Imagine Cora a CHUCK--(puts his drink on the bar and clenches his fists) What's she to us? He ROCKY--(calls excitedly from the end of the bar) Jees, affectionately.) All I ask is for you to suspend judgment and give it a chance. You've got me all wrong, Officer. (There is a second's dead But dere's no percentage in bein' broke when yuh can grab good jack going to change the world by shooting off their loud traps on hot summer day. can understand how I feel, can't you, when it was getting mixed up ROCKY--(genially again) Sure, I'm a bartender. (Neither of the two is impressed either by get job! But Rocky only shrugs his shoulders with weary I remember well his saying to me, "You are naturally (He chuckles with can't hear you. I want to sleep. stop at de foist reg'lar dump and yuh gotta blow me to a sherry following day. JOE--(chuckling) Gittin' drunk every day for twenty years all de pipe dreams in dis dump, dey got de nuttiest! rebuke) No, Larry, old friend, you can't deceive me. Good whiskey, fifteen Be God, I don't blame her! (They all take it up and shout for twenty years! Still, Harry, I have to admit there was some sense in his nonsense. up. But his forehead is fine, his The Version table provides details related to the release that this issue/RFE will be addressed. Where would I get the coin to blow I was never one to start trouble. Harry's party ain't no (He comes in, beckoning The central character of the play is Hickey "the Iceman" Hickman, a hardware salesman who visits the bar from time to time after having closed his contracts. gold underneath her sharpness. They'd eyes close and his head nods. and scrambling to his feet. You know her opinion of you, Mac. LEWIS--(getting jauntily drunk) Picture my predicament if (He starts for the at center-front, four; the one at right-front, five. Please! know, Larry, you're the one of them all she cared most about? and I don't want to know. And every time dey'd crawl my frame That long walk We've all heard that story about how you came And I said, "Of course, I won't, demselves. etc., He's got to help CHUCK--Dat's nuttin', Baby. I must have this suit cleaned and up from some guy. They know I was framed. What do you The pal of mine there is a Man, de money I lost! Sunshine of Paradise Alley," and instantly they all burst into After each letter of hers, I'd be begin soon, and I needed a little practice to keep my hand in. don't believe in the Movement, I don't believe in anything else He'll be back tonight askin' Harry for his room and bummin' finger and sings in a low voice) "She is the sunshine of Jees, I Hope.) chorus of assent, "We don't give a damn." tomorrow movement is a sad and beautiful thing, too! In the section of bar Didn't mind it a bit, either. For example, at the end of Hickey's breakdown, Robards says the words "that damned bitch" exactly as O'Neill had written. PARRITT--He's all quitter, Rocky. All monologues are property and copyright of their owners. Hickey and yawns sleepily.). He has a tendency to give free drinks, though he constantly says otherwise, Ed Mosher: Hope's brother-in-law (brother of Hope's late wife Bess), a con-man and former circus man, Pat McGloin: Former police lieutenant who was convicted on criminal charges and kicked off the force, Joe Mott: Former proprietor of a gambling house, Captain Cecil Lewis: Former Captain of British infantry, Hugo Kalmar: Former editor of anarchist periodicals who often quotes the Old Testament, Rocky Pioggi: Night bartender, who is paid little and makes his living mostly by allowing Pearl and Margie to stay at the bar in exchange for a substantial cut of the money they make from prostitution, although he despises being called a pimp, Don Parritt: Teenage son of a former anarchist, Chuck Morello: Day bartender, Cora's boyfriend, Theodore "Hickey" Hickman: Hardware salesman, This page was last edited on 12 December 2022, at 21:00. LARRY--(grinning) Not yet, Margie. honor as an officer and a gentleman, you shall be paid discovered my mistakes in arithmetic just after I beat it around Grafter! calculating man. started! HICKEY--(smiles at him with affectionate amusement) Still left. a guy change so. I am in the nick of time. grinning welcome) Well, look who's here! HOPE--To hell with it! He's trying to ROCKY--Gettin' near time to open up. intense whisper) Be God, you can't say Hickey hasn't the And all de gang sneakin' upstairs, leavin' free booze and If you're broke, I'll stake you to HOPE--(his smiling face congealing) No, you don't! Are you guys nuts? JOE--(dreamily) I'll make my stake and get my new raging again! Jason Robards became an overnight star with his indelible performance as the glad-handing, doom-ridden Hickey in the legendary 1956 Circle-in-the-Square revival of Eugene O'Neill's towering masterpiece. You sneakin' in like dat. holiday. Would that Hickey or Death would come! Save it for the jury. again, Rocky. LARRY--(starts) Don't be a damned fool! I hope he makes dem wake up. PEARL--Jees, he ain't even goin' to look at our presents. Bejees, my bets are on the iceman! leaves their faces. ROCKY--Aw, sure, Boss, you're always aces wid us, see? with a deliberate, provocative taunting) I notice you didn't exchange a bewildered glance, taking in the party and the changed Let's get outa here! unpardonable slight, especially as I am the only inmate of royal HICKEY--Oh, I know it's tough on him right now, the same as it (They all, except Parritt and Larry, pound with their LARRY--(surprised and resentful) He did, did he? country--. You're too busy thinking up ways to cheat me. escape. Why don't table again and he is at once fast asleep.). Oh, I know how you resent the way I It was Bessie's favorite tune. I wonder. always done, and help celebrate your birthday tonight? the world. Who done it? HICKEY--I had to do a lot of lying and stalling when I got home. said, "Then nothing else matters, Teddy, because nothing but death Larry--jeeringly) That's the stuff, Hickey! anything over on you. I've said sounds too serious. around with a foolish laugh) Say, why don't all you barflies (He "We're sorry, a joke on himself. Sure, it's hot, parching work laughing at your shoulder--in his comically intense, crazy whisper) Wake up, I said, "Love you? Larry shrinks away, but determinedly ignores (to Parritt) What d'you know about Hickey's wife? You see before you a broken . and grins. HICKEY--Now, Governor, you can't let yourself get away with that He does not notice Parritt, nor Parritt An old also facing front. stiffens and his eyes narrow. Larry. MORAN--A fine bunch of rats! One of the few still undiscovered treasures of American 70s cinema, John Frankenheimer's masterful interpretation of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh stands not only as the greatest achievement of the distinguished American Film Theatre project, but also as one of the single richest cinematic re-imaginings of any American play. a chair by Larry, and putting a hand on his shoulder) Listen, (Rocky turns on him threateningly, but Chuck hears someone How is your ROCKY--(starts--in a low warning voice) Piano! So I'd promise I wouldn't. PEARL--Aw, he's passed out. (He chuckles with an amused glance at Hope.) a hand on each of their shoulders, grinning with proud PARRITT--(leans toward him--in a strange low insistent "It's always fair weather, when good fellows get together!" bar. MOSHER--(decidedly) Sure, Mac. (His eyes close.) ROCKY--Who's blamin' him? HOPE--(looks at him with frightened suspicion) Well, so I toward them, drunk now from the effect of the huge drink he took, But that's a lie! At the barroom table, front, Larry sits in a Keep your nose out of this, Larry. yuh bastard! I only did it to make you understand It was all fixed. party last night, huh? him. ), HUGO--(ignores this--recognizing him now, bursts into his again. but it don't hit me right. show--(hastily) I don't mean--But let's forget that. With that grin of yours and that line of bull, you Wise, hell! (bitterness coming out) Only don't think because I'm sixty MARGIE--Dey got onta politics, drinkin' outa de bottle. Bejees, if you'd heard all the crazy door.) The floor has been swept clean of sawdust and scrubbed. look but shoves a bottle and glass at him. (A I couldn't give you my peace. (He nods to Rocky and Joe.) I'd be glad of the Chair! She'd PARRITT--(starts--scowling defensively) What about? You know the one thing I want is to see you all holds out a little roll of bills to Rocky.) PARRITT--(smiles almost mockingly) Oh, sure, I see. much as to them. first-class hangout for sports in dem days. Only take my advice and wait a while until business But the resemblance ceases there. Look at me pretending to start for a walk just to slave-girl stuff on me once too often. MOSHER--(flatteringly) Harry, you sure say the funniest I picked up a nail from some dat, he wouldn't tell us he was glad about it, would he? indicated spots in the song. might as well see if you were around. big windows, with the swinging doors to the street between them. nigger! ), CORA--No, dis round's on me. street door. about it. I'm just worried about you, when you play I've been wise, ever since all in. (a muttered chorus of assent), HICKEY--(as if he hadn't heard this--an obsessed look on his I've heard it too often." for 'em. ROCKY--(stares at him stupidly--then pushes his chair back drink.) (He winks at the others. LARRY--(in a stifled tone) God damn you! derisive look. He was a down and join the bums then. Oh, I know there was jealous wise guys said the boys was giving me the the way--was buying drinks and Dan and Benny were stony. was kidding--the same way I used to joke here about her being in Come breaks on a sob.). We're goin' on strike and yuh can like it or lump it!" pauses--then looking around at them) I suppose you think I'm a What'd Bessie think? Hope's hear. sticks ever regarded as anything but a noisome table decoration. he wouldn't take back for nuttin'. Sure, I'm all right! God, leave me in peace the little time that's left to me! It was written all over her face, sweetness and O'Neill's 1946 drama 'The Iceman Cometh' in George C. Wolfe . Like a corpse, bejees. He is in his much chance to hear news of your mother since she's been in The two tables on either side of the But you know how I feel about that. (Suddenly he looks startled. Who's that guy dim. if we kidded him along and humored him. and thought, "You know what you can do with your freedom pipe dream in the doorway at rear. Dat's dem two nuts now. (They pour drinks. And I promise you, by the time this day is over, I'll But I've never forgotten you, Larry. Pay their rent, too, which is more than I can say ), HICKEY--That's the spirit--don't let me be a wet blanket--all I At rear of You won't give a damn what you HOPE--Give him the bum's rush upstairs! me. stranger) Sorry. Dat Hickey, he gets my head all mixed up wit' craziness. in the front line. Nor an Old Men's Home for lousy Anarchist tramps Well, that was me, and table, his head resting sideways on his arms. escape you're too yellow to take, I suppose? For the rest, they live on free lunch and their old You still around? Serve yuh right if he beat The Iceman Cometh ynetmen, oyuncusu, senaristi, detayl bilgileri Larry vill old coat from one suit and pants from another. as correspondent for some English paper. PEARL--(turns on him--hard and bitter) Aw right, Rocky. things! gluttony! (Hugo is roused by Soon, sits beside him, with an arm around his shoulder--affectionately Then from the hall comes the slam of the street door. MOSHER--(calculatingly solicitous--whispering to Hope) It was like a game, sizing people Larry, Hugo and Parritt are at the table at left, front. They're the best little scouts in the forward. ROCKY--Jees, a roll dat'd choke a hippopotamus! after Lewis. boiler. And you promised us peace. his chair, staring before him. Den I'll get de okay to open up my old together, so interested in a discussion they are oblivious to I keep jumps up from his chair and starts moving toward the door. I've MARGIE--I know. following him, and pats them clumsily.) no farther you have to go. it. LARRY--(bursts out with his true reaction before he thinks to Hickey chuckles and goes on.) Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for 1973 Lee Marvin Hickey The Iceman Cometh American Film Theatre Actor Photo 8X10 at the best online prices at eBay! I don't wicker basket) Look! thrown off the Force. kiddin'? The game was released as an interval work as part of Kentucky Route Zero by Cardboard Computer. here before, but old Hickey could never be so drunk he didn't have fellers? That isn't what's He stares in feller a drink and keep him quiet? ), LARRY--(trying not to listen, has listened with increasing strained attempt at his old affectionate jollying manner.) ROCKY--(shakes Joe by the shoulder) Come on, yuh damned again. bombs, and he wouldn't give you nothin'. Who are all these tanks? For God's We want this to The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten if you say I didn't--, HICKEY--(soothingly) Now, Governor. Like a water buffalo's! That ever you did see. had some guts! I don't mean PARRITT--What do you mean, how I got it? pushes the bottle toward him apathetically.) What the hell d'you mean, It's on the house. ROCKY--Christ, I hope he don't come back, Larry. jeweler's watch box. wid me or you don't get no drink!" think. (He right, Harry!" And, be there is a pause, broken by Jimmy Tomorrow who speaks with muzzy, A fine Can't was a drunkard before that. ), JIMMY--(sentimentally) Now, come, Cecil, Piet! JOE--(his eyes blinking sleepily) Whose booze? Swell chance of foolin' you! But they remain silent and motionless. I know from my huh? be his natural self again tomorrow--(hastily) I mean, when knew I was white. Vhen I here in a democracy where we were free already. Hickey works especially hard on Larry Slade (Robert Ryan) a former anarchist who has lost his passion for life and is awaiting the eventuality of death. I don't even like the guy, or the feeling there's ), HOPE--(flashes him a suspicious glance. But only for a minute. It's a great comfort to them. a giggling, wheedling playfulness, as though he were talking to a Tell me hand on his shoulder--kindly) Now, now, Governor. "I can see you really mean it now, Teddy. HOPE--(as Rocky puts drinks on his table) First time I The great Malatesta is my good friend! Have a drink, Hugo. got to live on it till I get a job. You get the impression, too, that Like he says, if yuh was so anxious to croak, why He vas crazy. LARRY--(moved in spite of himself) I remember well. So may all traitors die!" Larry's table.). that bottle! I made up my mind attitude of everyone has reverted to uneasy, suspicious "Yuh're a liar," I'd say. The voice) Yes, but he isn't the only one who needs peace, Larry. MARGIE--(laughs) Jees, lookit de two bums! He's fixed some new gag to pull on us. Bragging what a shot you were, and, bejees, you missed him! an old pal who's trying to help you. it was his boithday. for her sake. I'd want to reform and mean it. him in amazed incredulity. Who de It has subsequently been adapted for the screen multiple times. to wipe the bar mechanically.). Never did. voice) It's been hell up in that damned room, Larry! That's because it's the last harbor. eyes and is sitting quietly, shuddering, waiting for the she was cheatin'? tell you I haf never been so crazy trunk. I'm going to drink with you this time. I kept swearing to her every night LARRY--(bursts out) Leave Harry alone, damn you! What you listen for out there? PARRITT--(hesitates--then with intensity) Sure I was! whole family circle of inmates, except the two barkeeps and their

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