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- ActionCrimeThriller
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Sitting Target, 1972
English
UK, USA
Profile of Sitting Target
Sitting Target can be described as rough, suspenseful, and bleak. The plot revolves around a prison breakout, infidelity, and vengeance. The main genres are thriller, action, and crime. In approach, Sitting Target is serious and realistic. It is set, at least in part, in a prison. It is based on a book. Sitting Target is well suited for a boys' night.
Summary of Sitting Target
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.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | UK, USA |
| Release date: | 19 June 1972 |
| Runtime: | 93 min |
Cast and Crew
as Harry Lomart
as Pat Lomart
as Birdy Williams
as Inspector Milton
