Sitting Target
Directed byDouglas Hickox
Screenplay byAlexander Jacobs
Based onSitting Target
1970 novel
by Laurence Henderson
Produced byBarry Kulick
StarringOliver Reed
Jill St. John
Ian McShane
Edward Woodward
Freddie Jones
Frank Finlay
CinematographyEdward Scaife
Edited byJohn Glen
Music byStanley Myers
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release dates
  • May 1972 (1972-05) (UK)
  • 12 June 1972 (1972-06-12) (NYC)
Running time
93 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Sitting Target, also known as Screaming Target,[1] is a 1972 British crime film directed by Douglas Hickox and mainly shot in various locations in London, including the Winstanley and York Road Estates. It stars Oliver Reed, Ian McShane and Jill St. John and was based on the 1970 novel by Laurence Henderson.

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

Production

Douglas Hickox was signed to direct in July 1971.[2] Filming started in September 1971.[3]

Due to restrictions about filming in British prisons, the prisons sequences were filmed in Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin.[4] The Winstanley and York Road Estates in Battersea feature extremely prominently throughout the film as the setting for many of the action sequences of the main protagonist.[5][6]

Soundtrack

The soundtrack was composed by Stanley Myers. It was released by Finders Keepers Records in 2007.

Notes

  1. ^ "Screaming Target Original Oliver Reed Cult Classic WOW | eBay". Archived from the original on 10 June 2015.
  2. ^ Beth Brickell in Star Role Murphy, Mary. Los Angeles Times 24 July 1971: a7.
  3. ^ Unding-a-ling Role for Jill St. John Los Angeles Times 5 August 1971: g9.
  4. ^ p. 298 Filmfacts, Volume 15 Division of Cinema of the University of Southern California, 1972
  5. ^ "The Winstanley Plays Itself".
  6. ^ "Cinematic Depictions of Battersea". 7 May 2013.

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Films directed by Douglas Hickox
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