The Iceman Cometh - Al Pacino recites Hickey's big speech

Eugene O'Neill's "The Iceman Cometh": Al Pacino reads Hickey's famous speech.


from a documentary on Eugene O'Neill--it includes commentary on the speech, the play, and a few seconds of clips of this scene from the 1962 TV version starring Jason Robards.

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[polishactor]

he makes acting look so effortless

[RomoloMampieri]

This is unbelievably good. Pacino is one of the greatest actors of all time and my personal hero.

[LKSPR13]

This play was good, but "A Long Day's Journey Into Night" will always be my favorite.

[spxeli]

@MaTchBoOkPoEt How many Pacino movies have you even seen? Asshole.

[overlander]

sorry, but this just don't grab me by the cohunas. Not like Lee Marvin's version

[Morituri100]

I really liked Al Pacino's reading,--what a good actor--and I even liked Jason Robards, in the small clip shown, but Hickey to me will always be Lee Marvin. It;'s strange but you never realize what a great actor Marvin was until a comparison like this.

[Godzilla52]

@MaTchBoOkPoEt Watch The Insider and "And Justice for All" to prove your wrong about that. 

[MaTchBoOkPoEt]

pacino can only play mobsters or cops lol

[mineheadX1]

@nosmokingpistol77 I think he has to find the right role, casting him as Jack Kevorkian was brilliant, put Pacino in the right role and there's no better actor out there...but his energy is all wrong for Hickey...

[Shelby596]

@dantean What, you've never heard of sarcasm, genius? Google it.

[dantean]

@Shelby596 Then you have been cursed with a surprisingly low threshold for humor..somewhere around the Benny Hill level, I'd say.

[dantean]

Thank you for posting this. It takes O'Neill's naturalist style to tamp down ol' Al's instinct to go over the top--WAY OVER, a great deal of the time. Again, thanks.