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BIRTHDAY
January 01, 1897
DIED
January 01, 1955
RECENT CREDITS
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
(FILM)
Dec. 1, 1969
Texas Lady
(FILM)
Nov. 1, 1955
The Road to Denver
(FILM)
Jun. 1, 1955
Rage at Dawn
(FILM)
Mar. 1, 1955
Dangerous Mission
(FILM)
Feb. 1, 1954
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BIOGRAPHY
After briefly entertaining the prospect of becoming a professional tennis star, Horace McCoy pursued a short acting career, then headed to the Southwest, where he worked as a newspaper journalist. Inspired by W. R.....
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After briefly entertaining the prospect of becoming a professional tennis star, Horace McCoy pursued a short acting career, then headed to the Southwest, where he worked as a newspaper journalist. Inspired by W. R. Burnett's crime novel Little Caesar, McCoy switched to writing hard-boiled detective fiction. In Hollywood from 1933, he wrote or co-wrote several entertaining (if unmemorable) programmers. By the 1950s, he was typed as a specialist in "outdoor" melodramas like Dangerous Mission (1954) and A Rage at Dawn (1955). Horace McCoy is best-remembered as the author of the unrelentingly pessimistic Depression-era novel They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, which, after several false starts, was finally filmed in 1969 thirty-four years after its publication, and fourteen years after McCoy's death.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
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