Iceman Cometh (Disc 1)

"One of the most electrifying evenings in the history of television drama."-The New York Herald Tribune

Jason Robards became an overnight star with his indelible performance as the glad-handling, doom-ridden Hickey in the legendary 1956 Circle-in-the-Square revival of Eugene O'Neill's towering masterpiece (first staged in 1939).In his harrowing drama, O'Neill shines a harsh but compassionate spotlight on the failed lives, empty hopes, and perpetual pipe dreams of an assortment of down-and-out denizens of a seedy saloon, set in New York in 1912.Their sad, but complacent existences are rattled when Hickey arrives for his annual bender a changed man - forswearing alcohol and preaching a deliverance from "the lie of the pipe dream." As Variety originally wrote, "This 'Iceman' was a landmark for the video medium, a reference point for greatness in TV drama."