Warner Archive has unleashed a bounty of hard-boiled '70s films this week. The most anticipated--by me, anyway--of this bunch is Douglas Hickox' Sitting Target starring the late and much-lamented (by those who didn't have to work with him) Oliver Reed. I previously wrote about this unjustly under-seen film here. The film has famous fans in Tarantino and Wright, which I mentioned in the previous piece, with Tarantino naming Michael Fassbender's character in Inglourious Basterds after director Hickox.
This U.S. television spot is pretty effective, not just for the bluntness of the copy, but for the forceful delivery of said copy, which sounds to be laden with a touch of Boston English. "Sitting Tah-get. Rated R."
EDIT: I'm told by the Warner Archive folks, via Twitter, that this television spot will appear on the DVD in lieu of a theatrical trailer, as the latter could not be located.
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Will definitely be picking this up along with The Wrath of God. Now all we need a good Warner Archive sale. :)
Agreed, David. Need one of those sales!
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