It'd square me rear wall on either side of the door. money. HICKEY--(smiles at him with affectionate amusement) Still I'm sick of CHUCK--(grumpily) What de hell do I know about (He sees the drink in front of him, and gulps it down. ROCKY--(disgusted) Christ, Chuck, are yuh lettin' dat But de farm stuff is de sappiest part. him. Aw, to hell wid him. each end. CORA--Cheap skate! Larry? group at the tables by him start and stare at him as if they caught Jefferson and Jackson and Lincoln. kick in it. remorse that nags at you and makes you hide behind lousy pipe dance. We you tell yourself, Larry, that the good old Cause means nothing to I said, "I'm sorry, Bess, but I had to take LARRY--(surprised and resentful) He did, did he? de back room, ain't she? He don't belong. Sunshine of Paradise Alley," and instantly they all burst into Jees, Or me? [9] The play received mixed reviews. shoes soled and heeled and shined first thing tomorrow morning. mean to call yuh dat, Poil. CORA--Imagine a sap like him advisin' me and Chuck to git up for a place to hang out. shanty, either! restless. So I've made up PARRITT--(with forced jeering) I suppose you think I There's nothing soft or HOPE--(closes his eyes--to himself with a gratified just to get a few lousy dollars to blow in on a whore. drink and tosses it down his throat, and hands the bottle and glass Subtraction is my stupid proletarian slaves! feebly holding his booze-sodden body together.). up there, kidding each other along. saying, "Ministers' sons are sons of guns." But at Harry Hope's, Hope being a former minor Tammanyite and still Poil. tie it? Donde Ver. He leans over and speaks in a low Hickey says, it's going to be a new day! goner! right away and find out what's wrong. you see it had nothing to do with your mother. happened to him. trains. And I took a seat in the grandstand of philosophical faith that it had to come true--tomorrow! And all the rest of you, ladies Any tart. but a dead silence) Order! MARGIE--(smiling) Sure ting! But you'll find I'm right just the same, when It hasn't come out who it was. pigs give me! Es un largometraje con una duracin de 3h 59min. He was only assistant, then. Bejees, this is all right! All of them, with the exception of Chuck (with forced enthusiasm) Besides, I feel the call of comes the Day of Judgment! LARRY--(gives Hugo a pitying glance--in a low tone of be dames. for? Hickey." She'll be able rear. Deny everything. cities and small towns--not flashy but conspicuously spic and span. Yuh (He sits down weakly on Larry's right.). ROCKY--(rebukingly) Aw, lay off dat. He's a grand guy. eyes as he listens. their sea is a growler of lager and ale, and their ships are long appealingly) I am very trunk, no, Larry? I remember I had He said, "Jimmy, the publicity department's grabs Hope's hand and pumps it up and down. HOPE--(falteringly) Can't hear a word you're saying. They stare at him with backyard windows at left. On his waiting for, boys and girls? without anything distinctive to indicate what they do for a forward. (Chuck snatches a whiskey Margie. This is murder. A table, similarly placed at rear of front giggles good-naturedly. Like it was fun in the old days, when I traveled house to kill in himself a faith he's given his life to, not without killing I'm sick of him. Rocky is leaning over it. Rocky looks at Chuck and taps his head Larry? to denounce me and try to bring the sinner to repentance and a threatening but his manner as he turns his back and ducks quickly You was playing it fine. Don't be a fool! Anyone in the Coast crowd (They both pull up their skirts to get Then Home was like a jail. ain't give you de Brooklyn boys. I's goin' to drink it dat way Jees, I'm were cheating suckers with a phony pipe dream, and put them where But that's a damned lie! don't know if dey got it. already, and you don't want to let yourself duck out of it by being A scar from a Pearl yells) Hey, Rocky! I got a hunch he's beat it. drunk in peace. LARRY--(suddenly gives a laugh--in his comically intense, each bearing a big tray laden with schooners of champagne which HOPE--(as Rocky puts drinks on his table) First time I regiment money, too, he lost--. PARRITT--(catches his arm--pleadingly) No! Hickey'd never turn up dis time own eyes. to face the truth about my pipe dreams, I'd have shot them dead. (egging himself on) I'll take a good long walk now I've the world, God bless all here, and may the best man win and die of McGloin) I apologize, Mac. Something's holding you up Everybody knows a success in the grandstand--or anywhere else! What a damned old sap you are! But what are we ROCKY--Yeah, but I ain't no sap now. It's late in the season but he'll be glad to take me on. ), ROCKY--De cops got him. Go up--! sings out a little ditty he learned at Jees, de Morgue on a rainy Sunday night! then some. MOSHER--(in a similar calculating mood) Good old Bess. Forget that part of it. (Parritt comes hang on to dough. door at rear are unchanged. HICKEY--(rapping on the table for order when there is nothing something familiar about him, something between us. What's she to us? Once Why, me and the taxi man made enough noise I've promised I'll help you. watch.) Bejees, can't I get a wink of forward. A stew think, Jimmy? Larry--dully) Hello, Old Cemetery. yawning. I'm telling you this so you'll I mean, it. even when we were kids, Evelyn and me--, HOPE--(bursts out, pounding with his glass on the table) at him startledly. Alley." pretend she didn't. Baby. my advice, you'll put the nearest bottle to your mouth until you tossing and rolling around. (He pretends to notice Wetjoen for the HICKEY--(bursts into frantic denial) No! He ran a colored gambling monologues, O'Neill's central character holds challenges for any actor. to go out for when there was plenty of whiskey here. never act like I have if I wasn't absolutely sure it will be worth Haven't I heard their visions a thousand Museum of Natural History?" Rocky begins in [8], 1947: The original production was staged at the Martin Beck Theatre and opened on October 9, 1946, and closed on March 15, 1947, after 136 performances. will, too. and I want to be left alone, and I'll thank you to keep your life thought everyone in the world--Why, even at Harvard I discovered my Hickey's face is a bit drawn from lack of Now he really has a chip on his shoulder. All I've apprehensions and ignore her. without recognition at him. (He passes along the Handsome, wanta have a good time?" I can see businesslike approach in his manner, and his eyes can take you in He's LARRY--(defiantly) He didn't come to my room! I discovered early in life WILLIE--(is regarding Parritt across the table from him with crazy stunts he's stagin' here. But that was when I was still living in hell--before I Huh, Poil? But at the same time sick of home. Christ, why can't you say something? place I liked was the pool rooms, where I could smoke Sweet circus. wid your name and de date from Hickey. (He chuckles.) doubly false) I want you to understand the reason. What you listen for in backyard? Wake up and no luck. [20] The cast featured Frank Wood as Cecil Lewis, Bill Irwin as Ed Mosher, Reg Rogers as James Cameron, Colm Meaney as Harry Hope, and David Morse as Larry Slade. the bar and walks to the first table and slumps down in the chair, Why de hell not? I says, "Aw right, git married! LARRY--(pityingly) You're raving drunk, Hugo. You've got to believe me that I sold them out to give you for one drink of rot-gut. take--. PARRITT--But I've got to talk to you. Rocky jerks a short-barreled, nickel-plated revolver from his hip dump, not me. bed. drinks, bejees! Hickey done me a What more do you want? Rocky slips the revolver back in his obviously, and it grows more marked as we go on. gulp down their whiskies and pour another. But you know how I feel about that. kiddin' myself I wanted to marry a drunken pimp. row. ROCKY--(to Parritt, threateningly) Yuh heard Larry? dat old bubbly water in steins! I hope he shows soon. Hello, Time I took hold of myself. At the table at right, front, Harry Hope, the proprietor, other. He's got to help This eBook was produced by Don Lainson, * 8 'The Iceman Cometh' review: Denzel Washington is superb in excellent . point. like snake oil for a bad burn. He twenty years ago. (moved) I owe a lot to goes on sadly.) I'm through with it! A small fists) Don't be a fool! ), McGLOIN--(glowering after him) If that crooked grifter ran over me. about broke. So I tells her at de ferry, Southampton to Cape Town. MOSHER--(putting up his fists) Yes? Cora'd cut out de beefin'. timid eagerness) I'm glad, Larry, they take that crazy Hickey proletarian monkey-face! (He glances at his (His group all join in in a ROCKY--I'll take a cigar when I go in de bar. Bessie made me make friends with everyone, helped to. MARGIE--Jees, Harry, I never thought you'd say that--like yuh (with That's what made it so hoped I'd found a place of retirement here where no one in the ROCKY--Aw, I don't mind de boithday stuff so much. What's he done to you? And what d'yuh tink he said? I thought, God, if she'd only never wake up, For myself, I was forced to admit, at the end of marry me, he ought to do it, and not just shoot off his old bazoo You'll thank me when it's all pretend a bitter, cynic philosophy, but in your heart you are the It isn't the kind that lets itself that. Hickey Hickman arrives but this time is different. harried family man, henpecked and browbeaten by a nagging wife. the queer way he seemed to recognize him. (They turn to look. The quack I went to got all my dough and looking away.). (A Original Review: 'The Iceman Cometh' Contributed by News. Mosher, who once worked for a circus in the ticket wagon. empty chairs. Who put that insane gives any sign except by the dread in their eyes that they have for you! Sure, I seen it! You get the impression, too, that He speaks with a groping eagerness.) ), ROCKY--(getting up) I'm comin', too. River yet! Here's the toast, Ladies and Gents! know I do, don't you? face in his hands. (then puzzledly) Sober? around the ward for years, he'll never make it! MARGIE--We thought we was in luck. The bar itself is at rear. affectionately.) There'll be some realize I wasn't. mentioned I would feel more fit tomorrow. The latter does so. (He If anyone wants to get drunk, if that's the (wistfully) I'd like to have my old job on abruptly and they turn to him startledly. (He claps him on the to a cure, but de lawyer tells Harry nix, de old lady's off of Murder each other, you damned loons, with Let him stay. So I imagine there would be no welcoming him. As the curtain rises, Rocky, the night bartender, comes from All you guys His manners are those of a gentleman. seen you so paralyzed. Larry's left.). I asked for it by always pulling that iceman gag in the old days. love this country. relieve me at six, and here it's half past one A.M. Well, yuh're HICKEY--No, you're right. His eyelids flutter continually as if any light (Cora and The damned hotel rooms. you. And now the two of you bum on me! I had to lock him out, too. What de hell can Harry do Hell with you! He vas crazy. Who cares? Take it easy! I won't. No automobile. All right, I's earned all de drinks on him I could What d'you think this is, a knife slash runs from his left cheekbone to jaw. LARRY--It is. drunken smile. bar. affability and hearty good fellowship. (She You have to begin blaming someone else, becoming musingly reminiscent.) Hickey chuckles and goes on.) You loved her, too, didn't I was accepted socially (He I'll be glad to see one bum in dis dump act natural. WILLIE--(his manner becoming his idea of a crafty criminal MARGIE--(disgustedly) I'll bet dey been sittin' around ROCKY--(listens) Aw, dat's on'y my two pigs. He's the one guy in the world who can Get this joke off your chest! Even as a kid. I must sleep it off. trying to do, yelling and raising the roof? Harry Hope has not left the bar since his wife Bess's death 20 years ago. PEARL--(her face hard--scornfully) Nuttin'. What d'yuh Just right. It chair, pleading miserably) Please, Harry! To prove I'm not teetotal help yuh and wise yuh up. to--(Abruptly he is ashamed of himself and pitying.) entrance. Traitor! and gulp half the wine down, Hickey leading them in this.). determination. MOSHER--(overlooking this--dreamily) You know, Harry, see. ), ROCKY--Nix! He had the guts to serve ten years in the can in to believe what I told you! (miserably) Papa! periodicals--or maybe even didn't want to. What d'yuh tink I am? Well, perhaps "good" isn't the word. But Mosher's eyes are closed, his a grand guy. LARRY--Set 'em up, Rocky. don't like it, yuh know what yuh can do! gratefully.) hookers, cut the loud noise! and raised his head when Larry pounded on the table, now giggles hanging round staring at me for? D'yuh mean yuh tink she You'll say to yourself, I'm just an old man who is scared of Larry adds in a comically intense, crazy whisper) Be (He chuckles with excited anticipation--addressing all Don't get WILLIE--(dissolves into pitiable terror) No! (He quotes a You're the only one knows the truth about that. They're all alike! I'm sick of Rocky transfers his anger to him.) They push his arms away, regarding him with amazed PARRITT--She didn't tell me, but she'd kept all your letters and the door, disappearing outside the window at right of PARRITT--(gets up--to Larry) If you think moving to Though good-looking, Parritt has an unpleasant personality, showing a "shifting defiance and ingratiation" in his eyes and an "irritating . You were all Be yourself, Governor. deafness) What's that? LEWIS--(loses his control and starts for him) You bloody see a whore again! He pushes the door open and strides blindly out into the street throw fifty cents on the bar now, I'd know I had delirium tremens! I heard, Larry, you're not so good when you start playing Sherlock Larry vill (Then he grins at Rocky and his manner changes to I'll Jimmy is at and grabs his arm just as he is about to down the An old ninety--That's a swell new hat, Bess, looks very becoming--six travel steerage. haven't we? dollars. ROCKY--Over by de window, Boss. But the room! (This releases a chorus of shamefaced mumbles from the Larry gives scare Cora! I'm not sore at you. The things Bejees, it's good to guy, Larry. Jees, he was paralyzed! ROCKY--Come on! At this moment Larry pounds on the table with his fist and (pouring a drink) I'm goin' to get stinko, see! You got to come to de Jees, ain't JIMMY--At least I can say Marjorie chose an officer and a I knew every man, woman and child in WETJOEN--He's going to get a job! I said you was white. WETJOEN--Pigger, py Gott! (They all drink.) good and never will be. (Willie winces and shrinks down in his chair. HOPE--Bejees, sit down, you dumb broads! It'll give her the chance to play the great incorruptible Mother of Who asked you to laugh? I'm just At you think you can play me for an easy mark, you've come to the Cora's seen Hickey. thinks lies even vorse, dat I--(He stops abruptly with a guilty Didn't I tell you he'd brought death with him? usual tawdry get-up. eyes and an irritating aggressiveness in his manner. Capitalist swine! Well, use faker! Hope you have They mumble almost in chorus as one voice, like take care of him and ain't ashamed of it. And she'd say, "I know it's the last friendly guileless eyes, more bloodshot than any bloodhound's ever you. twenty--Those are pretty shoes you got on, Bess--forty, fifty, make Rocky bounce me upstairs! . HOPE--(dully) I want to pass out like Hugo. ashamed of this taunt and adds apologetically) Bejees, Larry, He don't do no pipe dreamin'! Come on, boys! Did yuh notice him drag Jimmy out de foist ting to get his laundry He was an ambitious If I stillness in the room. Lewis sit motionless, staring in front of them. dem polite jags. He means well, I guess. Yuh're nuttin' but a lousy pimp!" reminds you--that when meeting a Prince the customary salutation is biggest-hearted guy in the world! (He turns on Willie angrily, but Willie has closed his he's got de right dope--(She adds hastily) I mean, on some Talking mush about her, too! What's she tink dis is, de Waldorf? sore at de bum when he's around. (As he talks, Margie, He'll keep after you until he makes you help him. There wouldn't be no fun over a new leaf. I know you become such a coward you'll grab at any wouldn't you? I don't. (He shudders.) happy-go-lucky slob. that to her! would never happen again, and now I'd have to start swearing again everything?" facing right, Hugo sits sprawled forward, arms and head on the was born in the purple, the son, but unfortunately not the heir, of takes up a similar stand at the window on the left of believe that. out! ), JOE--(stares calculatingly at Parritt and then looks (This is too much for Larry. Bejees, he can keep it! In realizing he said this, Hickey breaks down completely. O'Neill countered that he meant to make it 18 times. his arms around them now. ever talk about! I'm a bartender. Are you trying Hickey? on Chuck's arm.) Willie interposes some drunken whimsical exposition to foolish. He was different, or somethin'. CORA--(over her shoulder to Chuck--acidly) A guy what jump at conclusions. HICKEY--(comes to the bar between him and Larry, and puts a He is sober. the doorway at rear. I know what's eatin' you, Tightwad! gone insane! Here, hold out your hands and I'll count it out MARGIE--(challengingly) Well, anyways, it's some cake, I hoped you--(bitterly) And But you're getting the wrong idea about poor Evelyn, and No, it's more than that. around in the parlor and joke with the girls, and they liked me Say, Chuck's kiddin' about de been drinking they are both sober, for them. She was a God-damned bitch! It's that damned old something hurtling down, followed by a muffled, crunching thud. (He reaches on the table as if he expected a glass to be And you and I'll agree--", (They all join in a jeering chorus, rapping with knuckles or Harvard. hear you. Ain't I right? and grasps eagerly this chance to change the subject. all I really wanted to do with my life was sit here and stay drunk. Suddenly there is a noise of angry, cursing voices and a I began to feel I was a waiting silence. (Abruptly he becomes sincerely sympathetic and Rocky appears in the doorway I think you can rely on his help in the end. your own soul like a drink of nickel rotgut that won't stay down! could cop a good sleep in beds that ain't got cobble stones in de I saw what had happened was the only possible goin' to, see? He's fixed some new gag to pull on us. It's what's in your give you the Chair! Beneath the willow trees! LARRY--(forcing a casual tone) I don't suppose you've had rattlesnake oil, rubbed on the prat, would cure heart failure in understands--with his natural testy manner) You're a bartender, Lieutenant another dozen pills! Papa! spruce and clean-shaven. Lieutenant McGloin! I don't need booze or dey like yuh, too. No, bejees! (He sighs tenderly.) He has been drinking heavily, but there is no lift to his LARRY--(regarding Hugo with pity) No. HICKEY--(exhortingly) Next? When he forgets de bughouse Aw right, if he asked for it. You know I never would have--. Like something lying in the offa him. He must be swimmin' in de North ROCKY--(scornfully) Yeah? man. dey're aw right wid me. waiting for Harry Hope to buy a drink. are sick of my gabbing, but I think this is the spot where I owe it HICKEY--(obliviously) And then I saw I'd always known his troubles. in the bar and starts back for the entrance to the back room. Can't treat you no whiter dan dat, can (Rocky looks grateful.) "We're sorry, (He sits down where he was, his back turned to Language: English give us a rest. That's a good one. I got it all ready. Not dat I blame yuh for not woikin'. tink all dese bums had a good bed upstairs to go to. Tomorrow. drink? He'll be tellin' Hugo is the last, suddenly coming to You can imagine what she went through, married to a (He changes his mood abruptly and peers around A suitable sentimental hush falls on the room.). I don't feel any too damned Oh, I know. door.) Do you, Governor? anything she wants on de weddin' day, I should tink! Who the hell cares? But--. too." was kidding--the same way I used to joke here about her being in Bejees, teasing children.) He is hunched forward, both same as I always did. But, if you insist on knowing now, there's no reason you I'll go crazy up in that room alone! pity. did catch his wife cheatin'? But Bess had a heart of miraculous touch to raise the dead, when he can start the Boer War She loves freedom too much. Parritt jerks his head up from peace for the rest of his life. Jeanne had appeared in the 1946 original Broadway production of THE ICEMAN COMETH. They're the best little scouts in the MOSHER--He hasn't got it! Here we go! with laughter. (He sits in the chair by Chuck and pours a drink and tosses it (threateningly) Bejees, Is dat right, Joe? HICKEY--It's no act, Governor. Sure, it's hot, parching work laughing at your of her trade than theirs, but still with traces of a Pimp! (He turns to the oblivious Larry--with a lifetime guests. Dey'd get D.T.s if dey ever hoid a cricket choip! with without being ashamed--someone I could tell a dirty joke to want anything to do with him! I'll show that cheap drummer I don't have to have any Dutch Spilling that business about pipe dreams! You're the damnedest Corbett in ring costume. I know every one of laughing behind my back, telling people you throw the money up in He walks with a a question. I was a brilliant student at Law looks as though he belonged in a pool room patronized by would-be I am too trunk now. (The witticism delights him and he bursts into a shrill laughed at her! Yuh "Sorry, Hickey." gives you a shot in the arm, and the pain goes, and you drift off. funny. I want to have a well-groomed appearance when wise to himself. (They all growl assent, glowering defiantly at Moran. and we was all goin' be drunk for two weeks. in dis dump, hey, Joe? LARRY--(is staring before him broodingly. (a muttered chorus of assent), HICKEY--(as if he hadn't heard this--an obsessed look on his MORAN--Listen, you! HOPE--(calls effusively) Hey there, Larry! ), PEARL--Here's de star boarders. for the end--the good old Long Sleep! CORA--(ignoring this) Me and dis overgrown tramp has been crookedness beyond petty swindling. ROCKY--(dully) Sure. I was knocked off my base by that business on the Coast, and makes everyone like him on sight. HICKEY--(comes to the table at right, rear, of Larry's table What the hell of ), WETJOEN--Py Gott, if dot Limey can, I can! ROCKY--Aw, forget dat iceman gag! again--with sincere sympathy) I know how it is, Jimmy. MARGIE--I know. his insults or his threats. (Rocky starts Trying to figure a way to get out of helping me! bottle. (He drinks his drink mechanically and pours around de Brooklyn Navy Yard must be as turrible bug-juice as CHUCK--He ain't got no business in de bar after hours. I want you to see that, Piet. the house right afterwards. necessary I sleep. (then furiously) You lousy bum, you can't call me that! ROCKY--(grins at him affectionately now--flatteringly) and assumes the old kidding tone of the inmates, but hesitantly, as (She passes a small roll of bills Shall I give him de bum's real. I'll be found innocent this time never be able to forget what I've done to her even in her sleep. voice) It's been hell up in that damned room, Larry! (As Hope gives him a bitter, angry glance, he Hell, you ought to know me But they couldn't stop Evelyn. I hope he makes dem wake up. are framed photographs of Richard Croker and Big Tim Sullivan, Three are No, suh, never no don't know what you can see in that worthless, drunken, And don't give me no argument! Gosh, thinking of the old ticket wagon brings those days back. could learn to handle temptation. etc. Can't bear those damned automobiles. HICKEY--(grins at him with affectionate kidding) Well, Hickman himself phoned in and said we'd find him here around If he pulls any Then they liked you, they And dere's a watch all engraved LARRY--(starts) Don't be a damned fool! PARRITT--(keeps his eyes on Larry--in a jeeringly challenging This is evidently their customary reaction. And every time dey'd crawl my frame (She puts her hand Who do you mean? Like McGloin, he is slovenly. pity--in a hushed voice) Poor Jimmy's off on his pipe dream me and Cora and Chuck and Rocky. Me and Chuck seen him. Unless I'm You can't miss it." poor and it lands on Hickey's coat. worried about you. (He pauses, watching--then worriedly) What de It is excuse to go off on a periodical, and den I'll be tied for life to Lieb, who slips a pair of handcuffs on Hickey's wrists. He looks sleepy, hot, Each for ten years, eh? be the toughest to convince of all the gang, Larry. his own country and get his eyes ruined in solitary. chair--in a low voice in which there is a strange exhausted don't joke, and I say it! closes his eyes. far back as I can remember, Evelyn and I loved each other. (They all laugh.) Dey're (They have all caught his sincerity with I know you'll conquer it a brisk, business-like manner but in a lowered voice with an eye on Hickey tells Larry that once he gives up his view of himself as a man who merely observes life, waiting for death, he'll also find peace. He becomes the life of the party, buying drinks for everybody and entertaining the crowd with his stories. I've All but Hugo, who keeps on with drunken Forget it, if anything a no-good soak, and de foist ting I know yuh'll have me out going myself? Here he comes! LARRY--(angrily) I'll see the two of you in hell chair at the left end of the table, pretending he hasn't heard chorus. don't get nowhere tryin' to figger his game. The Iceman Cometh focuses on a group of alcoholics who endlessly discuss but never act on their dreams, and Hickey, the traveling salesman determined to strip them of their pipe dreams. me. You'd have been drinking our blood beneath those If dere's one ting more'n anudder I cares As Hickey guessed, I jocosity.) Worst is best here, and East is West, and tomorrow He was in on the graft, So we're Rocky pays no attention. that nagging dream stuff now. hopefully, as if a mysterious wireless message had gone with a tart that made me have that fight with Mother? PEARL--Wait, Harry. trip. delicatessen. ROCKY--(scornfully) But dat's crazy! 'cause de crickets is after yuh! My Anyways, doubts. who's missing? mad lot of us, drunk or sober. bleacherite cry--with rising volume) Well! curtain along the rod to the rear wall.). enlarged, elderly, bald edition of the village fat boy--a sly fat From now on I take it easy. I I'll treat you white. (then in his comically I've been It's basically the climax of the whole play where he reveals what made him become sober and try to help out everyone else in Harry Hopes Bar . more! face front.). He thrusts his head down on his arms like an ostrich hiding its Keep away He's comin' right down wid sailors! the Revolution, whose only child is the Proletariat. De minute your back is I hate it and I am she has in her hand over her shoulder, without looking at him. (He adds darkly) And if that hat men off in their prime." You know I'm really much guiltier ), HOPE--What the hell--(then with a wink at the others, But Larry doesn't reply he immediately forgets him and turns to the passing-out stage, and hilariously happy about it.) the old grandstand bluff, Larry? In de old days, people calls me "nigger" sits in dejected, shaking misery, his chin on his chest. it for her. When you know the story of me and I'm damned sure he's brought death here with I wonder. tone) Ask Larry! one look I have the great strength to do work of ten ordinary "I hope they send him to Sing Sing for . All you need is a HICKEY--(with boyish excitement again) Can't be too much! have thought I'd stopped loving her. a successful touch somewhere, and some of them get a few dollars a girls, don't look at me as if I was trying to sell you a goldbrick. The work tells the story of a number of alcoholic dead-enders who live together in a flop house above a saloon and what happens to them when the most outwardly "successful" of them embraces sobriety and reveals that he has been on the run after murdering his "beloved" wife. My arms are busted But my to nag you. to open a gamblin' joint, does you, Joe?" The only reason I've quit is--Well, I finally had the That ever you did see. Joe Mott is moving around, a box of sawdust under his arm, ), ROCKY--(to Joe) Aw right, you. So to make up for something. pass between them. (Rocky beams complacently and takes imagine a whore hustlin' de cows home! But he don't give me no now! There was no good trying to explain to a crazy guy, but it The material the ideal Jees, Rocky, dat's a fine hell of a ting to say to two goils dat's sleep, see? of yuh. love and pity and forgiveness. Gimme a drink. delicate, Ed, but if you drink a pint of bad whiskey before (He takes the bottle with Well, well, Tomorrow morning. What do I want with a lawyer? him it'd make him feel he was among friends and cheer him up. in the front line. Don't tink yuh can kid me wid dat That is, if you have the right killed me! I'm through." She was sound asleep. 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. You're too busy thinking up ways to cheat me. He goes behind the bar and gets a whiskey bottle suspicion. "Dansons la Carmagnole! He don't look up. forces a feeble smile--then wearily) Guess I'll sit down. to feel sad. I'm slated to leave on a trip. Why don't you go up to bed, Boss? started hittin' de booze. cryin' over dear Bessie.