Targets
Old Hollywood collides with New Hollywood, and screen horror with real-life horror, in the startling debut feature from Peter Bogdanovich. Produced by Roger Corman, this chillingly prescient vision of American-made carnage casts Boris Karloff as a version of himself: an aging horror-movie icon whose fate intersects with that of a seemingly ordinary young man (Tim O’Kelly) on a psychotic shooting spree around Los Angeles. Charged with provocative ideas about the relationship between mass media and mass violence, Targets is a model of maximally effective filmmaking on a minimal budget and a potent first statement from one of the defining voices of the American New Wave.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital master, supervised by director Peter Bogdanovich, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Audio commentary from 2003 featuring Bogdanovich
- New interview with filmmaker Richard Linklater
- Introduction to the film from 2003 by Bogdanovich
- Audio excerpts from a 1983 interview with production designer Polly Platt at the American Film Institute
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by critic Adam Nayman and excerpts from an interview with Bogdanovich from Eric Sherman and Martin Rubin’s 1969 book The Director’s Event: Interviews with Five American Film-Makers
New cover by Drusilla Adeline/Sister Hyde
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital master, supervised by director Peter Bogdanovich, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Audio commentary from 2003 featuring Bogdanovich
- New interview with filmmaker Richard Linklater
- Introduction to the film from 2003 by Bogdanovich
- Audio excerpts from a 1983 interview with production designer Polly Platt at the American Film Institute
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by critic Adam Nayman and excerpts from an interview with Bogdanovich from Eric Sherman and Martin Rubin’s 1969 book The Director’s Event: Interviews with Five American Film-Makers
New cover by Drusilla Adeline/Sister Hyde
Cast
- Boris Karloff
- Byron Orlok
- Tim O’Kelly
- Bobby Thompson
- Nancy Hsueh
- Jenny
- Peter Bogdanovich
- Sammy Michaels
- James Brown
- Robert Thompson Sr.
- Arthur Peterson
- Ed Loughlin
- Mary Jackson
- Charlotte Thompson
- Tanya Morgan
- Ilene Thompson
- Sandy Baron
- Kip Larkin
- Monty Landis
- Marshall Smith
- Paul Condylis
- Drive-in manager
- Stafford Morgan
- Salesman (first gun shop)
- Mark Dennis
- Salesman (second gun shop)
- Frank Marshall
- Ticket boy
Credits
- Director
- Peter Bogdanovich
- Produced by
- Peter Bogdanovich
- Screenplay by
- Peter Bogdanovich
- Story by
- Polly Platt
- Story by
- Peter Bogdanovich
- Director of photography
- László Kovács
- Production designer
- Polly Platt
- Associate producer
- Daniel Selznick
- Production manager
- Paul Lewis
- Assistant director
- Gilles de Turenne
- Sound editor
- Verna Fields
- Assistant cameraman
- Peter Sorel
- Sound
- Sam Kopetzky
- Assistant to the director
- Frank Marshall
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A scene from Targets
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