Sitting Target

Sitting Target
Directed by	Douglas Hickox
Produced by	Barry Kulick
Written by	Alexander Jacobs
Based on	novel by Laurence Henderson
Starring	Oliver Reed Jill St. John Ian McShane Edward Woodward Freddie Jones Frank Finlay
Music by	Stanley Myers
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release dates	1972 (1972)
Running time	93 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Sitting Target or Screaming Target^[1] 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.

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

• Oliver Reed as Harry Lomart
• Jill St. John as Pat Lomart
• Ian McShane as Birdy Williams
• Edward Woodward as Inspector Milton
• Frank Finlay as Marty Gold
• Freddie Jones as MacNeil
• Jill Townsend as Maureen
• Robert Beatty as Gun Dealer
• Tony Beckley as Soapy Tucker
• Mike Pratt as Prison Warder Accomplice
• Robert Russell as First Prison Warder
• Joe Cahill as Second Prison Warder
• Robert Ramsey as Gun Dealer's Bodyguard
• June Brown as Lomart's Neighbour

Production

Filming started in September 1971.^[2]

Due to restrictions about filming in British prisons, the prisons sequences were filmed in Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin.^[3]

Soundtrack

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

Notes

External links

• Sitting Target at the Internet Movie Database
• New York Times review
• Sitting Target at Trailers from Hell