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Director
  
Peter Collinson

Country
  
South Africa

6.2/10
IMDb

Duration
  

Language
  
English

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Release date
  
10 February 1977

Writer
  
Jon Burmeister (novel), Scott Finch (screenplay)

Target of an Assassin is a 1977 film directed by Peter Collinson. It stars Anthony Quinn and John Phillip Law. Target of an Assassin was completed in South Africa in 1976 as Tigers Don't Cry, but was not put into general American release for nearly nine years. Other alternate titles include African Rage, The Long Shot, and Fatal Assassin. Based on the novel Running Scared by Jon Burmeister.

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Cast

  • Anthony Quinn as Ernest Hobday
  • John Phillip Law as Shannon
  • Simon Sabela as President Lunda
  • Marius Weyers as Colonel Albert Pahler
  • Sandra Prinsloo as Sister Janet Hobart

    • Plot summary

    The film is set in a South African hospital. Top-billed Anthony Quinn plays a male nurse, Hobday, assigned to care for a foreign President (Simon Sabela). With many threats against his well-being, the leader is heavily guarded around the clock. Hobday manages to kidnap his patient for strictly personal gain, unaware that a hired sniper is still attempting to take the life of the foreign leader while in Hobday's custody. This leads to a series of curious plot twists leading to a climactic scene with cable cars on a high plateau ridge.

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