Word: bogdanovich
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PETER BOGDANOVICH'S Targets, a low-budget oddity of considerable merit, snuck into Boston last week on the bottom half of an exploitation bill at the Center. Paramount, the distributor, doesn't know how to handle the film--a realistic shocker about an All-American boy-turned-sniper on the rampage--and despite good reviews and box office on its initial theatrical engagements, they stuck a plea for gun control arbitrarily before the credits, then decided not to open the film at all. In the depths of his soul, film critic Bogdanovich probably doesn't care. After all, many films...
...excerpted film makes its showcase suffer by comparison. It happens even to good films. Vivian Kurz in Andrew Meyer's Match Girl watches a chunk of Vertigo on TV, and a sensible spectator gets irritated when Meyer decides to return to his own film. The same holds for Peter Bogdanovich's Targets: even the glimpse of Hawks' The Criminal Code Bogdanovich shows us is enough to persuade that it has Targets beat by a mile...
Targets does make one sorry improvement on life, however. Bobby kills far more bystanders than Whitman did. The endlessly repetitive fusillades suggest that Writer-Director Peter Bogdanovich, in his first film, was really intent on creating the most prolific murderer in Hollywood's long history of violence. Unfortunately, it is a record made to be broken...