Targets (1968)

Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1968
Running Times: 90 mins
Format: Pathecolor     35mm
Ratio: 1.85:1
Sound: mono

PRODUCTION
Production Company: Saticoy Productions
Executive Producer: Roger Corman
Producer: Peter Bogdanovich
Associate Producer: Daniel Selznick
Production Manager: Paul Lewis

SCRIPT
Script: Peter Bogdanovich
Story: Polly Platt, Peter Bogdanovich, Samuel Fuller (uncredited)

DIRECTION
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Assistant Director: Gilles de Turenne

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Laszlo Kovacs
Assistant Camera: Peter Sorel
Gaffer: Richmond Aguilar
Key Grip: Tom Ramsey
Lab: Pathé Laboratory, USA

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Peter Bogdanovich
Assistant Editor: Mae Woods

MUSIC
Radio Music: Brian Stone, Charles Greene

SOUND
Sound: Sam Kopetzky
Sound Re-Recording: Ryder Sound Services Inc
Sound Editor: Verna Fields

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Scott Hamilton
Costume Designer: Polly Platt - uncredited)

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Gary Kent (uncredited)

VISUAL EFFECTS
Titles: Cinema Research Corporation

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Polly Platt
Assistant Art Director: Scott Fitzgerald
Property Master: James Campbell

MISCELLANEOUS
Continuity: Joyce King
Assistant To Director: Frank Marshall
Production Assistant: James Morris

LOCATIONS
Locations: Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA; Los Angeles, California, USA; Sepulveda Drive-In Theater, Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California, USA

CAST
Tim O'Kelly (Bobby Thompson)
Boris Karloff (Byron Orlok)
Arthur Peterson (Ed Loughlin)
Monty Landis (Marshall Smith)
Nancy Hsueh (Jenny)
Peter Bogdanovich (Sammy Michaels)
Daniel Ades (Chauffeur)
Stafford Morgan (salesman at first gunshop)
James Brown (Robert Thompson Sr)
Mary Jackson (Charlotte Thompson)
Tanya Morgan (Ilene Thompson)
Tim Burns (Walter)
Warren White (grocery boy)
Mark Dennis (salesman at second gunshop)
Sandy Baron (Kip Larkin)
Geraldine Baron (Larkin's girl)
Gary Kent (gas tank worker)
Ellie Wood Walker (woman on freeway)
Frank Marshall (ticket boy)
Byron Betz (projectionist)
Paul Condylis (drive-in manager)
Mike Farrell (man in phone booth)
Carol Samuels (cashier)
Jay Daniel (snack bar attendant)
James Morris (man with pistol)
Elaine Partnow, Pete Belcher, James Bowie, Anita Poree, Robert Cleaves, Kay Douglas, Raymond Roy, Diana Ashley, Kirk Scott, Susan Douglas (drive-in patrons)
Git Luboviski (woman in car at drive-in - uncredited)
Milton Luboviski (man in car at drive-in - uncredited)
Randy Quaid - uncredited)

PLOT SUMMARY

Ageing horror film star Byron Orlok is feeling out of date and unwanted, an anachronism in an age where his films can no longer compete with real-life violence. While a hopeful young director tries to lure him out of semi-retirement to make one last film, Bobby Thompson is arming himself with a high-power rifle, taking position at the top of a water tower and is preparing to start shooting...

USA
Theatrical Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Video Distributor: Paramount Home Video

Sweden
Rating: 15

USA
Rating: GP; R (for violent content)

West Germany
Rating: 12

1968
May
15: USA – theatrical premiere in New York City, New York

August
15: USA – theatrical release

1969
October
15: Sweden – theatrical release

Before I Die
Bersagli - Italian title
Bewegliche Ziele - German title
El héroe anda suelto - Spanish title
Levande mål - Swedish title

INCLUDES FOOTAGE FROM
The Terror (1963)

SEE ALSO
Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922)
Scream Queen Hot Tub Party (1991)

BOOKS

Cult Movies: a Hundred Ways to Find the Reel Thing (London: Vermilion (1982))
article (by Danny Peary)

Cult Movies: the Classics, the Sleepers, the Weird and the Wonderful (New York: Dell Publishing Company (1981)
article (by Danny Peary)

KEYWORDS

actors; drive-ins; film-makers; film-making; snipers

Last Updated: 1 January, 2009