They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? 1969 123movies

Watch: They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? 1969 123movies, Full Movie Online – 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. While recovering from a suicide attempt, she gets the idea from a movie magazine to head for Hollywood to make it as an actress. Robert is a desperate Hollywood citizen trying to become a director, never doubting he’ll make it. Robert and Gloria meet and decide to enter a dance marathon, one of the crazes of the 1930’s. 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 cruelly and bitterly, 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?.
Plot: In the midst of the Great Depression, manipulative emcee Rocky enlists contestants for a dance marathon offering a $1,500 cash prize. Among them are a failed actress, a middle-aged sailor, a delusional blonde and a pregnant girl.
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Ratings:

	7.8/10 Votes: 19,464
	85% | RottenTomatoes
	72/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 243 Popularity: 6.06 | TMDB

Reviews:

unique for its time
THEY SHOOT HORSES DON’T THEY? This movie stays in the memory, partly because it stands out from other mainstream Hollywood products of its time in subject matter (the dance marathons of the 20s and 30s) and tone (pitilessly and harshly negative; even the humor is bleak). The message: life (the marathon) is a desperate rat race with a rigged outcome.

How certain actors end up with certain roles depends on the crazy complicated game known as Hollywood casting, but sometimes even a miscast performer will bring an unexpected something to the table and triumph. Such was the case with Bette Davis in ALL ABOUT EVE (written with Claudette Colbert or Gertrude Lawrence in mind) and such is the case with Jane Fonda in a role that would have been better suited to someone like Stella Stevens. Fonda overcomes the odds as Gloria, the morbidly cynical and impoverished young woman whose brief life has been a series of abuses, disappointments and defeats. Even though the actress looks and speaks like a patrician, her defiant, angry, controlled desperation burns through the superficialities. Her performance culminates in an emotional meltdown which she handles with skill. It was her great breakthrough as a screen actress.

Another career peak is reached by Gig Young who, as the master of ceremonies, personifies all the dishonesty, cruelty and pathos of the marathon itself. Bonnie Bedelia and Susannah York also score as different kinds of vulnerable innocents. Michael Sarrazin as Fonda’s dance partner serves as the passive instrument that allows Fonda to play out her tortured personal drama. His unchanging wounded puppy dog expression speaks for itself.

Ironically, the musical arrangements by John Green, a brilliant and very active composer of early 30’s popular songs (including “Body and Soul”), sound more like Lawrence Welk than a real third-rate dance band of the early Depression era. As musical supervisor of this film I wonder if it was Green who anachronistically included songs that hadn’t even been written when the story takes place, including “I Cover the Waterfront” (1933) and “Easy Come, Easy Go” (1934), both of which Green composed himself.

For some reason the scriptwriter chose to move the story to 1932 from its original placement in 1934 by author Horace McCoy in the novel on which this film is based. At one point an old lady tells Fonda and Sarrazin that they are her favorite dance couple because they’re wearing the number “67” which is the year she was born (1867). Later Fonda calculates her age: “Sixty-five.” Which enables us to figure out that the action is taking place in 1932. In another scene Fonda, referring to Bonnie Bedelia, quips, “If she’s not pregnant, then I’m Nelson Eddy.” Eddy didn’t become a nationally known name until 1935 when he teamed with Jeanette MacDonald. He didn’t even appear in a major motion picture until 1933 (DANCING LADY, MGM). A woman of 1932 would have been more likely to say “Bing Crosby” or “Rudy Vallee” or even “Russ Columbo.” So one can’t help wondering why the screenwriter bothered to move the action backwards by two years.

Exhausted couples staggering around a dance floor under a shining, spinning ball composed of mirror fragments that reflect off the ceiling, walls and floor – a symbol of Earth and the cosmos around it and oppressed humanity on the bottom grimly pressing on. That’s the film in a nutshell.

when in Rome
When in Rome,do as Romans do.When you’ve gotten nothing to lose,when you’re so broke you couldn’t even buy a crust of bread,all that’s left for you is the amphitheatre.There, a lot of rich and wealthy people will relish,watching you sweat,struggle and suffer. Horace McCoy’s novel was not cheapened,its spirit remains intact.Who cares if they added some new characters such as Alice (Susannah York’s best performance)?Jane Fonda,in the role of a lifetime,is brilliant, harsh but brittle, fighting but knowing from the start that , whatever fate has in store for her , it’s a fool bargain.In this dark movie,the sun never shines on the poor who go round and round in circles: the only sun they get in this terrifying world is the glittering mirror bowl in the dancing. Sydney Pollack was never to recapture such an intensity: a recent work like “the firm” ,what a let-down!

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 9 min (129 min) (original), 2 hr (120 min) (current) (USA)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated M
Genre Drama
Director Sydney Pollack
Writer Horace McCoy, James Poe, Robert E. Thompson
Actors Jane Fonda, Michael Sarrazin, Susannah York
Country United States
Awards Won 1 Oscar. 10 wins & 25 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix 4-Track Stereo
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Panavision Lenses (uncredited)
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Panavision (anamorphic) (filmed in) (as Panavision®)
Printed Film Format 35 mm