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Horace Stanley McCoy (April 14, 1897 – December 15, 1955) was an American writer whose mostly hardboiled stories took place during the Great Depression. His best-known novel is They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1935), which was made into a movie of the same name in 1969, fourteen years after McCoy's death.
- American
- Horace Stanley McCoy, April 14, 1897, Pegram, Tennessee
- Novelist
- They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? is a novel written by Horace McCoy and first published in 1935. The story mainly concerns a dance marathon during the Great Depression. It was adapted into Sydney Pollack's 1969 film of the same name.
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Sometime newspaper sports editor, pulp magazine story writer, "hard-boiled" novelist, screenwriter, and actor, Horace McCoy is best known for his first novel They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1935), set during a marathon dance contest in the 1930s, and made into a film of the same name in 1969 (directed by Sydney Pollack ).
Release date. 1974. Running time. 125m. Country. France. Language. French. Un linceul n'a pas de poches (English: No Pockets in a Shroud) is a French film directed by Jean-Pierre Mocky in 1974.
(1969) Caroline E. Kelley They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? is an existential film based on the eponymous novel by Horace McCoy. It uses the marathon dances of the Depression era as a metaphor for the violence and greed of American capitalist society and, more specifically, of the Hollywood film industry.
