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The Iceman Cometh (1973) More at IMDbPro »

• Robert Ryan, knowing he was going to die of cancer soon, agreed to play the part of Larry Slade, a character who knows he's going to die soon (Ryan died before the film was released).
  
  
• Sorrell Booke, who played Hugo Kalmar in the 1960 television version of The Iceman Cometh (1960) (TV), repeats his role here.
  
  
• The last film of Fredric March and Robert Ryan.
  
  
• "The Iceman Cometh" opened at the Martin Beck Theater on October 9, 1946 and ran for 136 performances.
  
  
• The first film to ever have two intermissions instead of one.
  
  
• Lee Marvin was cast because Jason Robards had been seriously injured in a road accident.
  
  
• Tom Pedi also appeared in the the original 1946 Stage in the same role.
  
  

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