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Brass Target, the Glossary

Brass Target is a 1978 American suspense war film based on the 1974 novel The Algonquin Project by Frederick Nolan.^[1]

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1978 thriller films
Cultural depictions of George S. Patton
Cultural depictions of Lucky Luciano
Films about train robbery
Films directed by John Hough

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865.

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Alvin Boretz

Alvin Boretz (June 15, 1919 – July 22, 2010) was an American writer for stage, screen, radio, and television.

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American Film Institute

The American Film Institute (AFI) is an American nonprofit film organization that educates filmmakers and honors the heritage of the motion picture arts in the United States.

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Assassination

Assassination is the willful killing, by a sudden, secret, or planned attack, of a personespecially if prominent or important.

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Atlanta

Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia.

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Bavaria

Bavaria, officially the Free State of Bavaria, is a state in the southeast of Germany.

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Berle Adams (born Beryl Adasky, 11 June 1917 – 25 August 2009) was an American music industry executive and talent booking agent best known for co-founding Mercury Records in the 1940s and later becoming a senior executive at MCA.

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Bernard Horsfall

Bernard Arthur Gordon Horsfall (20 November 1930 – 28 January 2013) was an English actor of stage and screen.

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Brad Harris

Bradford Harris (July 16, 1933 – November 7, 2017) was an American actor, stuntman, and executive producer.

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Bruce Davison

Bruce Allen Davison (born June 28, 1946) is an American actor, who has appeared in over 270 film, television and stage productions since his debut in 1968.

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Burbank, California

Burbank is a city in the southeastern end of the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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Claudia Butenuth

Claudia Butenuth (20 September 1946 - September 1, 2016) was a German film and television actress.

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Cold War

The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.

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DVD

The DVD (common abbreviation for digital video disc or digital versatile disc) is a digital optical disc data storage format.

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Ed Bishop

George Victor Bishop (June 11, 1932 – June 8, 2005), known professionally as Ed Bishop or Edward Bishop, was an American actor, predominantly based in the UK.

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Edward Herrmann

Edward Kirk Herrmann (July 21, 1943 – December 31, 2014) was an American actor, director, and writer.

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Film poster

A film poster is a poster used to promote and advertise a film primarily to persuade paying customers into a theater to see it.

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Ford's Theatre

Ford's Theatre is a theater located in Washington, D.C., which opened in 1863.

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Frankfurt

Frankfurt am Main ("Frank ford on the Main") is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse.

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Frederick Nolan (writer)

Frederick William Nolan (7 March 1931 – 15 June 2022) was an English editor and writer, mostly known as Frederick Nolan; he also used the pen names Donald Severn, Daniel Rockfern, Christine McGuire, and Frederick H. Christian.

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George Kennedy

George Harris Kennedy Jr. (February 18, 1925 – February 28, 2016) was an American actor who appeared in more than 100 film and television productions.

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George S. Patton

George Smith Patton Jr. (November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945) was a general in the United States Army who commanded the Seventh Army in the Mediterranean Theater of World War II, and the Third Army in France and Germany after the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944.

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Heinz Bennent

Heinz Bennent (18 July 1921 – 12 October 2011) was a German actor.

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John Cassavetes

John Nicholas Cassavetes (December 9, 1929 – February 3, 1989) was a Greek-American filmmaker and actor.

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John Hough (director)

John Hough (born 21 November 1941) is a British film and television director.

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John Junkin

John Francis Junkin (29 January 1930 – 7 March 2006) was an English actor and scriptwriter who had a long career in radio, television and film, specialising in comedy.

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Laurence Rosenthal

Laurence Rosenthal (born November 4, 1926) is an American composer, arranger, and conductor for theater, television, film, and the concert hall.

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Lee Montague

Lee Montague (born Leonard Goldberg; 16 October 1927) is an English actor noted for his roles in film and television, usually playing tough guys.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.

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Lucky Luciano

Charles "Lucky" Luciano (born Salvatore Lucania; November 24, 1897 – January 26, 1962) was an Italian-born gangster who operated mainly in the United States.

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Mary Todd Lincoln

Mary Ann Todd Lincoln (December 13, 1818July 16, 1882) served as the First Lady of the United States from 1861 until the assassination of her husband, President Abraham Lincoln, in 1865.

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Max von Sydow

Max von Sydow (born Carl Adolf von Sydow; 10 April 1929 – 8 March 2020) was a Swedish-French actor.

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, commonly shortened to MGM), is an American media company specializing in film and television production and distribution based in Beverly Hills, California.

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Metrocolor

Metrocolor is the trade name used by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) for films processed at their laboratory.

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MGM Home Entertainment

MGM Home Entertainment LLC (also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Home Entertainment, d/b/a MGM Home Entertainment and formerly known as MGM Home Video, MGM/CBS Home Video and MGM/UA Home Video) is the home entertainment distribution arm of the American media company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM).

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Military Police Corps (United States)

The United States Army Military Police Corps (USAMPC) is the uniformed law enforcement branch of the United States Army.

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Munich

Munich (München) is the capital and most populous city of the Free State of Bavaria, Germany.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Office of Strategic Services

The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was an intelligence agency of the United States during World War II.

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Our American Cousin

Our American Cousin is a three-act play by English playwright Tom Taylor.

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Patrick McGoohan

Patrick Joseph McGoohan (March 19, 1928 – January 13, 2009) was an American and Irish actor, director, screenwriter, and producer of film, television, and theatre.

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Regnery Publishing

Regnery Publishing is a politically conservative book publisher based in Washington, D.C. The company was founded by Henry Regnery in 1947.

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Reichsbank

The Reichsbank was the central bank of the German Empire from 1876 until the end of Nazi Germany in 1945.

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Robert Vaughn

Robert Francis Vaughn (November 22, 1932 – November 11, 2016) was an American actor and political activist, whose career in film, television and theatre spanned nearly six decades.

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Sigfrit Steiner

Sigfrit Steiner (31 October 1906 – 21 March 1988) was a Swiss actor.

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Sophia Loren

Sofia Costanza Brigida Villani Scicolone (born 20 September 1934), known professionally as Sophia Loren, is an Italian actress, active in her native country and the United States.

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Suspense

Suspense is a state of anxiety or excitement caused by mysteriousness, uncertainty, doubt, or undecidedness.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe.

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The Cassandra Crossing

The Cassandra Crossing is a 1976 disaster thriller film directed by George Pan Cosmatos and starring Sophia Loren, Richard Harris, Ava Gardner, Martin Sheen, Burt Lancaster, Lee Strasberg and O. J. Simpson about a disease-infected Swedish terrorist who infects a cross-European train's passengers as they head to a derelict arch bridge which is liable to collapse.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Tony Imi

Tony Imi BSC (27 March 1937 – 8 March 2010) was a British motion picture and television cinematographer.

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Turner Broadcasting System

Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. was an American television and media conglomerate founded by Ted Turner in 1965.

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Turner Classic Movies

Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is an American movie-oriented pay-TV network owned by Warner Bros. Discovery.

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Uncle Tom's Cabin

Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe.

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United Artists

United Artists (UA) is an American film production company owned by Amazon MGM Studios.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is an American magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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Victory in Europe Day

Victory in Europe Day is the day celebrating the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces on Tuesday, 8 May 1945; it marked the official end of World War II in Europe in the Eastern Front, with the last known shots fired on 11 May.

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Vincent Canby

Vincent Canby (July 27, 1924 – October 15, 2000) was an American film and theatre critic who served as the chief film critic for The New York Times from 1969 until the early 1990s, then its chief theatre critic from 1994 until his death in 2000.

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War film

War film is a film genre concerned with warfare, typically about naval, air, or land battles, with combat scenes central to the drama.

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Warner Archive Collection

The Warner Archive Collection is a home video division for releasing classic and cult films from Warner Bros.' library.

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Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment

Warner Bros.

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Warner Media, LLC (doing business as WarnerMedia) was an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate owned by AT&T.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States.

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West Germany

West Germany is the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) from its formation on 23 May 1949 until the reunification with East Germany on 3 October 1990. The Cold War-era country is sometimes known as the Bonn Republic (Bonner Republik) after its capital city of Bonn. During the Cold War, the western portion of Germany and the associated territory of West Berlin were parts of the Western Bloc.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brass_Target

Also known as The Brass Target.

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Brass Target, the Glossary

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See also

1978 thriller films

Cultural depictions of George S. Patton

Cultural depictions of Lucky Luciano

Films about train robbery

Films directed by John Hough

References