Sitting Target

Sitting Target

Infobox Film
name = Sitting Target


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director = Douglas Hickox
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writer = Laurence Henderson the novel. Alexander Jacobs the screenplay.
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starring = Oliver Reed
Jill St. John
Ian McShane
Edward Woodward
Freddie Jones
Frank Finlay
music = Stanley Myers
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released = 1972
runtime = 93 min.
country = U.K.
language = English
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imdb_id = 0069273

"Sitting Target" is a 1972 film directed by Douglas Hickox and shot in London. It is a violent crime thriller starring Oliver Reed as Harry Lomart, a convicted murderer, and Ian McShane as Birdy Williams, as two convicts planning a breakout. Before the two men can abscond to another country, Lomart gets word that his wife Pat Lomart (Jill St. John) has been having an affair with another man and has become pregnant with his child. 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. Edward Woodward plays a police inspector, Milton, the man assigned to catch the two escaped convicts.

Soundtrack

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

External links

*imdb title|id=0069273|title=Sitting Target
* [http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=110424 "New York Times" review]


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