Episode 459: They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)

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The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2020

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

Our examination of 1969 continues with our first American film we’ve discussed this year, They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? Directed by Sydney Pollack and based on a novel by Horace McCoy, the film stars Michael Sarrazin as Robert and Jane Fonda as Gloria, a pair who get thrown together in a marathon dance contest during the Great Depression.
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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
0:04.5	Christopher Media. Let's make some noise.
0:07.0	What number are we thinking of?
0:10.0	69, dudes!
0:14.0	Uh-huh.
0:20.7	Well, it's in 1960s, not okay. Yeah. It's a 19609 okay
0:23.6	All across the USA
0:27.6	It's another year for me and you
0:32.6	Another year with nothing to do
0:37.5	There's another year for me and you
0:41.8	Another year with nothing to do
0:44.2	Easy come
0:52.9	People are the ultimate spectacle.
0:57.9	And now, now you're going to see it, Yowsa the Derby!
1:05.9	One couple and only one will waltz out of here over broken bodies and broken dreams, carrying
1:13.6	the grand prize of $1,500 silver dollars.
1:18.6	And believe me, these wonderful kids deserve your tears because each one of them is fighting down pain,
1:25.6	exhaustion, weariness, struggling to keep going, battling
1:30.2	to win.
1:31.2	And isn't that the American ways?
1:34.0	You bet it is.
1:36.4	What I mean is if you think about it, Cadill ain't got a much worse than us.
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