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Brass Target is a american film of genre Drama directed by John Hough released in USA on 22 december 1978 with Sophia Loren

Brass Target (1978)

Brass Target
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Released in USA 22 december 1978
Length 1h51
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Action
Rating59% 2.9511052.9511052.9511052.9511052.951105

Brass Target is a 1978 American post war suspense film, based on the novel The Algonquin Project by Frederick Nolan and directed by John Hough. It stars John Cassavetes, Robert Vaughn, George Kennedy, Patrick McGoohan and Max von Sydow.

The film revolves around the actual historical event of Gen. George S. Patton's fatal automobile crash. It suggests it was not an accident but a conspiracy.

Synopsis

The story opens in Europe days after VE Day. General Patton (played by Kennedy), orders that gold reserves held by the former Reichsbank be transported to Frankfurt. But before the shipment arrives in the city, the train is robbed and its US Army MP guards are killed in a tunnel using poisonous gas.

Actors

Sophia Loren

(Mara)
John Cassavetes

(Maj. Joe De Lucca)
George Kennedy

(Gen. George S. Patton)
Robert Vaughn

(Col. Donald Rogers)
Max von Sydow

(Shelley Martin Webber)
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