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Targets

Screening on Film
Directed by Peter Bogdanovich.
With Boris Karloff, Tim O’Kelly, Nancy Hsueh.
US, 1968, 35mm, color, 90 min.
Print source: Swank

Bogdanovich’s debut film features Boris Karloff in a poignant autobiographical cameo as an aging horror film actor contemplating retirement amidst late career humiliations and against the protestations of a young filmmaker, played with boundless enthusiasm by Bogdanovich. Interwoven with their story is a parallel plot of a mysterious serial killer with a rifle and a grim determination to wreak havoc. A brilliantly eccentric tribute to a Hollywood era already fading away, Targets contrasts the silver screen past with the uncertain, distracted future of the television generation embodied by the troubled murderer.

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