The Iceman Cometh
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The Iceman Cometh is a play by Eugene O'Neill, which was later made into a TV movie in 1960 as well as a big screen motion picture in 1973, both by the same name. It is considered one of the author's finest works. The play was written in New York in 1939, published in 1940, and first produced on Broadway in 1946.
It stages the story of the whiskey-soaked and disillusioned denizens of Harry Hope's saloon and the upheaval caused by the newly sober salesman Hickey, who -- with all the annoying zeal of a recent convert -- urges his former drinking companions to give up their "pipe dreams."
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