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Release: 1969. Runtime: 120. Country: U.S. Language: English. Director: Sydney Pollack. Cast: Jane Fonda, Michael Sarrazin, Susannah York, Gig Young, Bruce Dern, Bonnie Badelia, Red Buttons, Michael Conrad, Al Lewis. Screen legend Jane Fonda (Coming Home) stars in this vivid, fascinating film as a woman driven to seize her last best chance ...
Overview. In the midst of the Great Depression, manipulative emcee Rocky enlists contestants for a dance marathon offering a $1,500 cash prize. Among them are a failed actress, a middle-aged sailor, a delusional blonde and a pregnant girl. Sydney Pollack. Director.
Running time: 129 MIN. With: Jane Fonda Michael Sarrazin Susannah York Gig Young Red Buttons Bonnie Bedelia. Horace McCoy's 1935 grimy novel of a depression era dance marathon, which sold a ...
Supervising the contest is Rocky (Gig Young), the master of ceremonies who eggs the competition on with clichés of luck, perseverance, and victory. “Yow-sah, yow-sah, yow-sah!” at once poetic and rousing soon becomes a battle cry. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? is a technically proficient movie. Director Sydney Pollack draws excellent ...
Jun 1, 2023 · ABOUT THE FILM: In Sydney Pollack’s relentlessly bleak portrait of Depression-era America, Jane Fonda, Michael Sarrazin, and Bruce Dern star as contestants in a dance marathon, a dangerous fad spawned by the desperation of the time. The dancers are tasked with outlasting other couples by staying on their feet for thousands of hours in front ...
Oct 19, 2004 · And no other film has knocked it off the pedestal I placed it on that night – as the most perfect film ever made.“They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?” was released on December 10, 1969.To flip-flop Dickens, “It was the worst of times, it was the best of times.”Specific to 1969, Vietnam, rather than grinding to a halt, had continued to ...
They Shoot Horses, Don't They (1969) This is almost a mainstream experimental film, coming out of the New Hollywood transformation, and it has a huge reputation. It centers around the basically true events of a typical late-1920s dance marathon, with contestants dancing (and resting at times) for weeks straight (four or five weeks wasn't unusual).
