Targets (1968)

Synopsis: The message of Peter Bogdanovich's suspenseful directorial debut still rings true for post-1970s America, regardless of the decade. Tim O'Kelly plays Bobby Thompson, a seemingly mild-mannered... The message of Peter Bogdanovich's suspenseful directorial debut still rings true for post-1970s America, regardless of the decade. Tim O'Kelly plays Bobby Thompson, a seemingly mild-mannered husband and son. But Bobby has a penchant for collecting firearms and thinking murderous thoughts, which translate into action when he becomes a deadly sniper, picking off drivers on the L.A. freeway from high above an oil tank. Meanwhile, Byron Orlok (Boris Karloff), an aging horror film star, plans his retirement, feeling the atrocities wrought by daily human global existence have numbed the public to the movie monsters he plays. As fate and movies will have it, Thompson and Orlok's worlds collide at the Reseda Drive-In, where Orlok is making his final public appearance. Writer-director Bogdanovich, helming his debut feature, also appears as young Hollywood screenwriter and director Sammy Michaels. A powerful and chilling study of unexplained, unexpected violence, the film relays a message that continues to be contemporary to the American psycho-social landscape. [More]

Starring: Boris Karloff, Tim O'Kelly, Nancy Hsueh, Peter Bogdanovich

Starring: Boris Karloff, Tim O'Kelly, Nancy Hsueh, Peter Bogdanovich, Randy Quaid, Arthur Peterson, Mary Jackson, Tanya Morgan, Sandy Baron, Stafford Morgan, Timothy C. Burns, Gary Kent, Frank Marshall

Director: Peter Bogdanovich

Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Screenwriter: Peter Bogdanovich, Polly Platt
Producer: Peter Bogdanovich
Composer: Brian Stonestreet, Charles Greene

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