People are the ultimate spectacle
Wednesday, November 19th 2008 @ 7:00 pm
Theory Seminar room, SB3 3.170a
Gloria (Jane Fonda) 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 (Michael Sarrazin), 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?
Directed by Sydney Pollack
Written by Horace McCoy (novel) & James Poe (screenplay) Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Language: English
Subtitles: English
| Jane Fonda | ... | Gloria Beatty | |
| Michael Sarrazin | ... | Robert Syverton | |
| Susannah York | ... | Alice LeBlanc | |
| Gig Young | ... | Rocky | |
| Red Buttons | ... | Harry 'Sailor' Kline | |
| Bonnie Bedelia | ... | Ruby | |
| Michael Conrad | ... | Rollo | |
| Bruce Dern | ... | James | |
| Al Lewis | ... | Turkey | |
| Robert Fields | ... | Joel Girard | |
| Severn Darden | ... | Cecil | |
| Allyn Ann McLerie | ... | Shirley 'Shirl' Clayton | |
| Madge Kennedy | ... | Mrs. Laydon | |
| Jacquelyn Hyde | ... | Jackie | |
| Felice Orlandi | ... | Mario |
Movie Trailer
More informations: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065088/
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