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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...
...every bit as perversely eclectic as its marketing. The camera pulls back to a full shot of a family dinner, and Nicholas Ray's Bigger Than Life is recreated; Karloff's monologue recalls Welles' in Mr. Arkadin as surely as we recognize Strangers On A Train when the sniper's ammunition falls just out of reach (shades of Bruno and the cigarette lighter...
...Cyrus Vance and Colonel Ha Van Lau hold "procedural meeting" to work out details for the talks. In Saigon, Viet Cong infiltration of previous ten days tapers off, random sniper and rocket fire ebbs...
According to police, the sniper fired from a window perch in the rooming house. Stephens told authorities that seconds after the shots rang out he had seen a stranger hurrying down the stairs from the second floor, carrying a package that presumably concealed the murder weapon. Days later, he identified the man from photos as James Earl Ray, who was eventually seized in England and charged with King's murder...
...August who confessed to the murder of one of the blacks, Auburey Pollard Jr.--the only one of the murders which can be ascribed to a definite killer. His colleagues, attempting to frighten the civilians into revealing the identity of the non-existent sniper, had taken several of the blacks into separate roms, fired some shots into the ceiling, and returned to the motel residents left lined up in the hallway saying things like "that one didn't even kick." One of the other officers then asked August, "Do you want to kill one now?" August answered...