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Release Date: 1969

Cast: Jacquelyn Hyde, Bonnie Bedelia, Allyn McLerie, Michael Sarrazin, Severn Darden, Jane Fonda, Susannah York, Marilyn Hassett, Bruce Dern, Felice Orlandi, Gig Young, Cynthia Myers ...MORE

Cast: Jacquelyn Hyde, Bonnie Bedelia, Allyn McLerie, Michael Sarrazin, Severn Darden, Jane Fonda, Susannah York, Marilyn Hassett, Bruce Dern, Felice Orlandi, Gig Young, Cynthia Myers, Al Lewis, Robert Fields, Tom McFadden, Red Buttons, Art Metrano ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Period piece, Melodrama, Psychological thriller, Existentialism

They Shoot Horses, Don't They? is a 1969 American drama film directed by Sydney Pollack. The screenplay by James Poe and Robert E. Thompson is based on the 1935 novel of the same name by Horace McCoy. It focuses on a disparate group of characters desperate to win a Depression-era dance marathon and the opportunistic emcee who urges them on to victory. Robert Syverton, who once dreamed of being a great film director, recalls the events leading to an unstated crime. In his youth, he saw a horse break its leg, after which it was shot and put out of its misery. Years later, he wanders into a... MORE

They Shoot Horses, Don't They? is a 1969 American drama film directed by Sydney Pollack. The screenplay by James Poe and Robert E. Thompson is based on the 1935 novel of the same name by Horace McCoy. It focuses on a disparate group of characters desperate to win a Depression-era dance marathon and the opportunistic emcee who urges them on to victory. Robert Syverton, who once dreamed of being a great film director, recalls the events leading to an unstated crime. In his youth, he saw a horse break its leg, after which it was shot and put out of its misery. Years later, he wanders into a dance marathon about to begin in the shabby La Monica Ballroom, perched over the Pacific Ocean on the Santa Monica Pier, near Los Angeles. He is recruited by emcee Rocky as a substitute partner for a cynical malcontent named Gloria when her original partner is disqualified due to an ominous cough. Among the other contestants competing for a cash prize of $1500 are Harry Kline, a middle-aged sailor; Alice, a would-be Jean Harlow with delusions of grandeur, and her partner, an aspiring actor; and impoverished farm worker James and his pregnant wife Ruby. Early in the marathon the weaker pairs are LESS