Sitting Target

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Sitting Target
Directed by	Douglas Hickox
Written by	Laurence Henderson the novel. Alexander Jacobs the screenplay.
Starring	Oliver Reed Jill St. John Ian McShane Edward Woodwards
Music by	Stanley Myers
Release date(s)	1972
Running time	93 min.
Country	U.K.
Language	English
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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.