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Bookmark this pageBrass Target (1978)
Director: John Hough
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From Time Out Film Guide
Mining the profitable vein of Day of the Jackal, this tale of conspiracy and assassination has General Patton murdered by subordinates involved in a vast gold heist. The movie goes for several targets - historical significance, murky intrigue, Bond-style techno-glamour - but misses them all. Loren, as the woman with a past, drifts in and out of a defiantly labyrinthine plot which reaches rock bottom with the revelation that Patton's adjutant's mistress' ex-husband was (maybe) a Nazi cabinet minister. Pretty thin.Author: CA
Cast & crew
Director: John Hough
Producer: Arthur Lewis
Cast: Sophia Loren, John Cassavetes, George Kennedy, Robert Vaughn, Patrick McGoohan, Bruce Davison, Edward Herrmann, Max von Sydow full cast
Genre(s): Thrillers
Duration: 111 mins
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