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Targets
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NR,1hr 30min
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1968
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Paramount
Synopsis: Together with Orson Welles' Citizen Kane and John Singleton's Boyz 'n the Hood, director Peter Bogdanovich's Targets is among the most impressive first features ever made. When Bogdanovich's cinematic mentor Roger Corman suggested that Bogdanovich might want to make his directorial debut, he offered to "donate" 20 minutes' worth of footage of the Corman-directed The Terror and the services of Boris Karloff, who owed Corman two days' worth of work (at a cost of 22,000 dollars). Karloff became so caught ... Full Synopsis
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Targets was not Boris Karloff's last film (he would limp through five forgettable horror films before his death, four of them shot in Mexico within a month), but it was a perfect grace note for the actor who starred in several of the most enduring horror classics of the 1930s. As Byron Orlok, a thinly disguised version of himself, Karloff plays a man who feels that in the late 1960's the real horror ... Full Review
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Byron Orlok
Bobby Thompson
Robert Thompson, Sr.
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