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Icebound (2003 Film)
Icebound may refer to: * ''Icebound'' (play), a 1923 play by Owen Davis * ''Icebound'' (film), a 1924 silent film, based on the play * ''Icebound'' (novel), a 1995 novel by Dean Koontz * '' Ice Bound: A Woman's Survival at the South Pole'', a 2003 TV movie starring Susan Sarandon {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Icebound (play)
''Icebound'' is a 1923 play written by American playwright Owen Davis, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It is set in Veazie, Maine, a suburb of Bangor. Productions ''Icebound'' opened on Broadway at the Sam H. Harris Theatre on February 10, 1923 and closed on June 1, 1923 after 145 performances. Directed by Sam Forrest and produced by Sam H. Harris, the cast featured Edna May Oliver (Hannah), Lawrence Eddinger (Doctor Curtis), Robert Ames (Ben Jordan), John Westley (Henry Jordan), Lottie Linthicum (Emma Jordan), Frances Neilson (Ella Jordan), Boots Wooster (Nettie Jordan), Phyllis Povah (Jane Crosby) and Charles Henderson (Jim Jay). The play was produced Off-Off-Broadway at the Metropolitan Playhouse of New York in September 2014. ''Icebound'' won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play was included in the ''Best Plays Of 1922-23'', by Burns Mantle. Plot The Jordan family is in their farm in Veazie, Maine in October 1922. They await the reading of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Icebound (film)
''Icebound'' is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by William C. deMille, produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures, and based on a 1923 Pulitzer Prize Broadway produced play of the same name by Owen Davis. This film production was made at Paramount's Astoria Studios in New York City. Actress Edna May Oliver returned to the role that she played in the Broadway version. Plot As described in a film magazine review, returned home following service in France during World War I, a disillusioned Ben Jordan colors the dull life of his New England town by indulging in various dissipations. He sets fire to a barn and, to avoid arrest, disappears. His stern old mother lies ill in bed in the home's sick room, attended by her physician, while greedy relatives wait in the parlor room waiting for her demise. After her death, the relatives react with horrorstricken surprise when the family lawyer reads the will and the self-sacrificing ward, Jane Crosby, is pronounced as the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Icebound (novel)
''Icebound'' is a novel written by Dean Koontz. The book was originally published in 1976 under the title ''Prison of Ice'' under Koontz's pseudonym A pseudonym (; ) or alias () is a fictitious name that a person or group assumes for a particular purpose, which differs from their original or true name (orthonym). This also differs from a new name that entirely or legally replaces an individua ... David Axton, and was revised and re-released as ''Icebound'' in 1995. Plot summary The plot concerns a group of international scientists working for the project of towing an iceberg to be used as relief for droughts. It is headed up by the husband and wife team of Rita and Harold (Harry) Carpenter. Rita secretly suffers from the fear of cold, ice and snow. Due to an unexpected storm, the scientists become stranded on the iceberg with bombs ticking under them. If they do not find a way out, they will perish. A Russian submarine is trying to rescue them, but the rescue is complicate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
