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120: Boris and Roger Corman (Bela & Boris Part 6)

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Movie Review: The Criminal Code

Targets was supposed to be released by a ip with which corman still had a deal, but bogdonovitch had greater ambitions for the movie. The final act of the movie is an incredibly powerful orchestration of ironic imagery. There are literal newspaper headlines about senseless shooting seen in the movie. Certain details, like the fact that the killer drags his mother's corpse into bed after he's killed her, are taken directly from the crimes of murderers like the coed killer. And yet donovitch's heart was with the old hollywood that karlof was a survivor of. While making a totally modern movie, he was able to address the supposed obsolescence of such

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