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They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
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Widescreen 2.35:1 Color / Standard 1.33:1 Color / Production Year: 1969 / Region 1
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Overall Rating:  4.25 out of 5, including 3 reviews
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People Are The Ultimate Spectacle.
Recognized as one of the most highly acclaimed films of its time, They Shoot Horses, Don't They? Won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor (Gig Young), and was nominated for nine Academy Awards (1969), including Best Director (Sydney Pollack), Best Actress (Jane Fonda), and Best Supporting Actress (Susannah York).
Desperate people, desperate times. In the midst of the Depression, with no work and little to eat, and entire generation sought out the dance marathon as a means of survival. Brought together by chance, Gloria (Jane Fonda) and Robert (Michael Sarrazin) test the limits of friendship and physical endurance as the manipulative contest promoter (Gig Young) pushes them to the limits of their existence. The audience watches, the clock ticks on... Who will Survive?
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? Is a powerful drama revealing the exploitation of a starving generation by a fad so grotesque it was later banned by law.
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Features:
| Theatrical Trailer
Behind-The-Scenes Featurette | Video:
| Widescreen 2.35:1 Color
Standard 1.33:1 Color | | Audio: (more info) | ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Stereo
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| Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Production Year: 1969
Release Date: 10/26/1999
Length: 120 mins
Rating: R
Chapters: 17
| Packaging: Keep Case
Number of Discs: 1
Disc: SS-SL
Item Code: DV10924
UPC Code: 013131092493
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Overall Rating: 4.25 out of 5, including 3 reviews
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Bravo! - 4.5 out of 5 (5/14/2002)
I first viewed this film when I was a little girl. Even then I was transfixed by the storyline - a story that years and years later, I could hardly remember, but knew that I had to own on disc.
Most of us are too young to remember the horrors of the Great Depression, however with movies like this one, one can vividly empathize with what it must have been like. No work, less food, self-degradation, and sacrificing streetcars for a month, in order to buy a pair of silk stockings. The story
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A Gruelling Film About the Thirties - 4.25 out of 5 (1/15/2002)
This is tough,gruelling movie - afterall it's about the marathon dances of the Depression era -
contestants danced for days on end with little rest, just so they could be guaranteed a feed and maybe even win a prize. My memories of this 1969
gem are of Ruby (Bonnie Bedelia) pushing her pregnant body through the day to days rigours of fatigue,little sleep and finally exhaustion. Of Alice (Susannah York)the girl-woman submitting to sexual favours in a misguided attempt to survive, and the quiet
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A fine film given fine treatment - 4 out of 5 (11/1/1999)
The DVD Gods smiled down on us with the release of TSHDT? A film that changed my life as a teen, it has been given the royal treatment on DVD. The blacks are black. The art direction can be fully appreciated. After lackluster Beta/VHS releases and hatchet job TV prints, DVD is now showing off this classic in the best light since its initial release thirty years ago. Music is such an integral part of the ambiance; though in stereo, more nuances are definitely heard.
An outstanding quality
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