They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)DVD VHS | Cast list | | Jane Fonda | as | Gloria Beatty | | Michael Sarrazin | as | Robert Syverton | | Susannah York | as | Alice LeBlanc | | Gig Young | as | Rocky | | Red Buttons | as | Harry 'Sailor' Kline | | Bonnie Bedelia | as | Ruby | | Michael Conrad | as | Rollo | | Bruce Dern | as | James | | Al Lewis | as | Turkey | | Robert Fields | as | Joel Girard | | Severn Darden | as | Cecil | | Allyn Ann McLerie | as | Shirley 'Shirl' Clayton | | Madge Kennedy | as | Mrs. Laydon | | Jacquelyn Hyde | as | Jackie | | Felice Orlandi | as | Mario |
| | Crew list: | | Sydney Pollack (Director) | | Horace McCoy (Writer) | | James Poe (Writer) |
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Review
Gloria (Jane Fonda) is a young woman of the Depression. She has aged beyond her years and feels her life is hopeless, having been cheated and betrayed many times in her past. Fantasizing about movies, she sees herself as an actress and decides to head for Hollywood, having got the idea from a movie magazine while recuperating in the hospital from a suicide attempt which resulted from another unhappy love affair. Robert (Michael Sarrazin), a desperate Hollywood citizen unsuccessfully trying to become a director, never doubting that he'll eventually make it. Robert and Gloria meet and decide to enter a dance marathon, one of the crazes of the thirties. The grueling dancing takes its toll on Gloria's already weakened spirit, and she tells Robert that she'd be better off dead, that her life is hopeless - all the while acting cruel and bitter, alienating those around her, trying to convince him to shoot her and put her out of her misery. After all, they shoot horses, don't they? |
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