Directed by:
Peter BogdanovichCinematography:
László KovácsCast:
Boris Karloff, Tim O'Kelly, Arthur Peterson, Monte Landis, Nancy Hsueh, Peter Bogdanovich, Sandy Baron, Frank Marshall, Mike Farrell, James Brown (more)VOD (1)
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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. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
Boris Karloff
UK
Best movies:
The General (1926)
Scarface (1932)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Tim O'Kelly
USA
Best movies:
Targets (1968)
Arthur Peterson
USA
Best movies:
Call Northside 777 (1948)
Targets (1968)
Yours, Mine and Ours (1968)
Monte Landis
UK
Best movies:
Columbo (1971) (series)
Targets (1968)
Young Frankenstein (1974)
Nancy Hsueh
USA
Best movies:
Targets (1968)
War Hunt (1962)
House Calls (1978)
Peter Bogdanovich
USA
Best movies:
The Last Picture Show (1971)
Opening Night (1977)
Targets (1968)
Sandy Baron
USA
Best movies:
Birdy (1984)
Straight Time (1978)
Broadway Danny Rose (1984)
Frank Marshall
USA
Best movies:
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
The Last Picture Show (1971)
Mike Farrell
USA
Best movies:
The Graduate (1967)
The Whereabouts of Jenny (1991) (TV movie)
Targets (1968)
James Brown
USA
Best movies:
Objective, Burma! (1945)
Going My Way (1944)
Air Force (1943)
Susan Douglas Rubes
Austria
Best movies:
Targets (1968)
Five (1951)
Black and Blue (1999) (TV movie)
Mary Jackson
USA
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
Coming Home (1978)
Airport (1970)
Daniel Ades
Cuba
Best movies:
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
Targets (1968)
The Missouri Breaks (1976)
Geraldine Baron
USA
Best movies:
Targets (1968)
Time After Time (1979)
Cutter's Way (1981)
Gary Kent
USA
Best movies:
Targets (1968)
Hells Angels on Wheels (1967)
Ride in the Whirlwind (1966)
Don Steele
USA
Best movies:
Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979)
Targets (1968)
Gremlins (1984)
Stafford Morgan
Best movies:
Die Hard 2 (1990)
Targets (1968)
Mr. Horn (1979) (TV movie)
Robert Cleaves
USA
Best movies:
Finian's Rainbow (1968)
Bullitt (1968)
Seconds (1966)
Tanya Morgan
Best movies:
Targets (1968)
Elaine Partnow
Best movies:
What's Up, Doc? (1972)
Targets (1968)
Slipaway (2016)