Every moment of Karloff in TARGETS is worth the price of admission. We’re just lucky the movie is as decent as it is. The Valley locations are great and you can only wish there was more of that, but the story is pretty confined in that regard, so I guess there was nowhere else to go.
It’s amusing to me that they used a storefront on Sunset Blvd. at La Cienega or Alta Loma for the gun shop. The one time in my life I’ve been to a gun shop, I was living not far from there on Kings Road. That’s when I bought my Vandersteen speakers and the optional stands for them. To properly weight those stands, putting 25 lbs of lead shot in each was recommended. And what did I know about getting lead shot? I consulted the yellow pages, and for some reason, decided on driving to this gun shop in the Valley. I forget where, exactly, but it was way the hell out there. So I bought these two 25-lb bags of lead shot, which were smaller and heavier than I ever imagined. It was probably comical watching me carry them out to my car, and then into my apartment. Anyway, I still have those speakers and their stands are still beautifully weighted down by that lead shot. That, and some dried beach sand to fill in the remaining gaps.
