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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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