Gloria 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, 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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Fascinating and disturbing
A great look at the American Dream gone sour, in the extreme! Watch out in particular for the sprint scene. Incredibly disturbing but you can't take your eyes off it.
A great film - but a poor DVD
This is a very good film, based on a cracking book, but the transfer, sound and sreen ratio on this DVD is very poor.
The transfer: Washed out and full of artifacts.
The sound: Pops, crackles and 'dingy' music.
Worst of all is the feeble pan and scan screen ratio. It starts off in wide screen, drops to 4:3, and usually all you can see is the background and the tips of the actors' noses.
All in all, a great movie, completely ruined by a terrible dvd transfer. Wait until it comes on TV, if you want to see it.
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
An unrelievedly harrowing melodrama about dreary people, confused by 'flashforwards' but full of skilled technique, entertaining detail, and one brilliant performance.
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Portraying the dance marathon craze that swept America during the Depression in the 1930s, director Sydney Pollack gives us plenty of cause for compassion in this hard-hitting adaptation of Horace McCoy's novel. Jane Fonda and Michael Sarrazin are among the partners wearily dragging themselves beyond the end of their tethers, spurred on by the monstrous master of ceremonies (an Oscar-winning Gig Young). It's too tunnel-visioned to work as the intended microcosm of America and the flash-forward narrative is peculiar, but the photography is suitably sickly hued and the performances are sourly, sometimes wittily, authentic to that time.
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