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Targets

Name: Targets
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Genre: Thriller, Crime
Released: 1968
Rating: 7.1
Cast: Tim O'Kelly, Boris Karloff, Arthur Peterson, Monte Landis, Nancy Hsueh

An aging horror-movie icon's fate intersects with that of a seemingly ordinary young man on a psychotic shooting spree around Los Angeles.

1968 · Directed by Peter Bogdanovich · 90 min · Thriller · Crime · 56 frames

Tagline

TARGETS are people...and you could be one of them!

Crew

Screenplay: Peter Bogdanovich, Samuel Fuller
Cinematography: László Kovács
Edited by: Peter Bogdanovich
Production design: Polly Platt
Produced by: Peter Bogdanovich

Cast

Tim O'Kelly as Bobby Thompson
Boris Karloff as Byron Orlok
Arthur Peterson as Ed Loughlin
Monte Landis as Marshall Smith
Nancy Hsueh as Jenny
Peter Bogdanovich as Sammy Michaels
Daniel Ades as Chauffeur
Stafford Morgan as Salesman - 1st Gunshop
James Brown as Robert Thompson Sr.
Mary Jackson as Charlotte Thompson

Production

Country: United States of America
Language: English
Studios: Saticoy Productions, Paramount Pictures
Budget: $130,000
Themes: sniper, vietnam veteran, drive-in theater, murder, serial killer, sniper rifle, los angeles, california, killing spree, aging actor, movie star

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