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Targets is a american film of genre Drama directed by Peter Bogdanovich released in USA on 15 august 1968 with Boris Karloff
Targets (1968)
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Add to a movie listTargets is a 1968 American thriller, written and directed by Peter Bogdanovich and filmed in color by László Kovács.
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The story concerns a quiet, clean-cut young insurance agent and Vietnam War veteran named Bobby Thompson (Tim O'Kelly) who murders his young wife, his mother and a grocery delivery boy at home, then goes on an afternoon shooting rampage from atop a San Fernando Valley oil storage tank. Several motorists and passengers are wounded or killed on the nearby freeway. When the police respond and start to close in on him, he flees and takes refuge in a Reseda drive-in theater where aging horror film icon Byron Orlok (Boris Karloff) is about to make a final in-person promotional appearance before retiring from show business. Thompson, perched on the framing inside the screen tower, resumes his killing spree after sunset, randomly shooting theater patrons as they sit in their cars watching the film. In a climactic confrontation, the elderly Orlok slaps the murderer into submission. As the police take him away Thompson remarks with apparent satisfaction that he "hardly ever missed".Actors
Boris Karloff
(Byron Orlok)
Peter Bogdanovich
(Sammy Michaels)
Monte Landis
(Marshall Smith)
Mary Jackson
(Charlotte Thompson)
Mike Farrell
(Man in Phonebooth)
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