Sitting Target
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| Directed by | Douglas Hickox |
| Produced by | Barry Kulick |
| Written by | Alexander Jacobs |
| Based on | novel by Laurence Henderson |
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Oliver Reed Jill St. John Ian McShane Edward Woodward Freddie Jones Frank Finlay |
| Music by | Stanley Myers |
| Cinematography | Edward Scaife |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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93 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Sitting Target or Screaming Target is a 1972 British film directed by Douglas Hickox and shot in London. It stars Oliver Reed, Ian McShane and Jill St. John and was based on the 1970 novel by Laurence Henderson.
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.
Filming started in September 1971.
Due to restrictions about filming in British prisons, the prisons sequences were filmed in Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin.
The soundtrack was composed by Stanley Myers. It was released by Finders Keepers Records in 2007.
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