Sitting Target
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Plot
Harry Lomart, a convicted murderer, and Birdy Williams are convicts planning a breakout. Before the two men can abscond to another country, Lomart gets word that his wife Pat has been having an affair with another man and has become pregnant.
The two men had made plans to lie low after their escape from jail, but Lomart decides to find and kill his wife and the man she has been seeing. A police inspector, Milton, is the man assigned to catch the two escaped convicts.
Cast
- Oliver Reed as Harry Lomart
- Jill St. John as Pat Lomart
- Ian McShane as Birdy Williams
- Edward Woodward as Inspector Milton
- Frank Finlay as Marty Gold
- Freddie Jones as MacNeil
- Jill Townsend as Maureen
- Robert Beatty as Gun Dealer
- Tony Beckley as Soapy Tucker
- Mike Pratt as Prison Warder Accomplice
- Robert Russell as First Prison Warder
- Joe Cahill as Second Prison Warder
- Robert Ramsey as Gun Dealer's Bodyguard
- June Brown as Lomart's Neighbour
Production
Filming started in September 1971.[2]
Due to restrictions about filming in British prisons, the prisons sequences were filmed in Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin.[3]
Soundtrack
The soundtrack was composed by Stanley Myers. It was released by Finders Keepers Records in 2007.
Notes
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- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Sitting Target at IMDb
- New York Times review
- Sitting Target at Trailers from Hell
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- ↑ http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/SCREAMING-TARGET-original-OLIVER-REED-CULT-CLASSIC-WOW-/230541716567
- ↑ Unding-a-ling Role for Jill St. John Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File) [Los Angeles, Calif] 5 August 1971: g9.
- ↑ p. 298 Filmfacts, Volume 15 Division of Cinema of the University of Southern California, 1972
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- 1972 films
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- 1970s crime drama films
- 1970s crime thriller films
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films
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- Films about revenge
- Films based on novels
- Films directed by Douglas Hickox
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