Horse (1965 film)

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Horse
Directed by Andy Warhol
Written by Ronald Tavel
Produced byAndy Warhol
Starring Edie Sedgwick
Ondine
Gregory Battcock
Tosh Carillo
Norman Glick
Production
company
Andy Warhol Films
Distributed by The Factory
Release date
  • March 1965 (1965-03)
Running time
105 minutes
70 minutes (cut version)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Horse is a 1965 American underground film directed by Andy Warhol, written by Ronald Tavel, and starring Edie Sedgwick, Gregory Battcock, Tosh Carillo, Ondine, Norman Glick, Daniel Cassidy Jr., and Larry Latrae (Latreille). Warhol makes a cameo. [1] [2]

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A photo from Horse published in Parker Tyler's book Underground Film (Grove Press, 1969; reprint Da Capo Press, 1995) shows all the male performers dressed only in jockstraps.

Plot

The main event is a strip poker game played by an outlaw, his sheriff captor, and a friend. The game ends with the outlaw (Tosh Carrillo) getting beaten up by the others for cheating. At one point, one of the men sits on the real horse (a stallion) hired for the day by Warhol.

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