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While the cameras remain, as if they had been condemned to do so, in the ballroom, capturing the fine points of the rising hopelessness of the dancers, They Shoot Horses, Don't They? becomes a marathon of collapse and futility. The circular arrangements of the dancers, the movement that heads nowhere, are the allegories of this metaphor for life.
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 ...
In They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, agony, pain, endurance are not in the bodies of the actors nor somehow mysteriously evoked by their images. Instead, they remain locked in the camera, mechanical ...
Jan 28, 2012 · In They Shoot Horses, the actors (both male and female) not only had spoken lines to deliver, they also had to make the audience believe they were in this strenuous contest. People who have been on their feet and moving for over twelve hundred hours straight don’t look like they did at the beginning of the whole thing.
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Audience Score. 76. PG 2 hr Dec 10th, 1969 Drama. In the midst of the Great Depression, manipulative emcee Rocky enlists contestants for a dance marathon offering a $1,500 cash prize. Among them ...
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