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Jul 16, 2018 · The film focuses on a disparate group of characters desperate to win a Depression-era dance marathon and the opportunistic emcee (MC) who urges them on to victory. It stars Jane...
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Aug 20, 1970 · They Shoot Horses, Don't They?: Directed by Sydney Pollack. With Jane Fonda, Michael Sarrazin, Susannah York, Gig Young. The lives of a disparate group of contestants intertwine in an inhumanely grueling dance marathon.
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They Shoot Horses, Don't They? is a 1969 American psychological drama film directed by Sydney Pollack, from a screenplay written by Robert E. Thompson and James Poe, based on Horace McCoy's 1935 novel of the same name.
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? is an endurance test for the audience. The dancers stay in the hall and its adjoining sleeping rooms and deteriorate physically and mentally for almost two months of grueling torture.
Jan 16, 2011 · Cinerama presents a film directed by Sydney Pollack. Screenplay by James Poe and Robert E. Thompson. Running time: 123 minutes. MPAA Rating: PG. Review / Roger Ebert (1970) Erase the forced smiles from the desperate faces, and what the dance marathons of the 1930s came down to was fairly simple.
A 1969 film based on the Horace McCoy novel of the same name and directed by Sydney Pollack, They Shoot Horses, Don't They? focuses on the participants in a grueling California dance marathon in 1932, in the depths of The Great Depression.
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