Brass Target

Brass Target
Directed byJohn Hough
Screenplay byAlvin Boretz
Based onThe Algonquin Project
1974 novel
by Frederick Nolan
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyTony Imi
Edited byDavid Lane
Music byLaurence Rosenthal
Color processMetrocolor
Production
company
Distributed byUnited Artists
Release date
  • December 22, 1978 (1978-12-22)
Running time
111 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$5,111,000 (domestic) or $2.5 million (US rentals)

Brass Target is a 1978 American suspense war film based on the 1974 novel The Algonquin Project by Frederick Nolan. The film was produced by Berle Adams and Arthur Lewis and directed by John Hough. It stars Sophia Loren, John Cassavetes, Robert Vaughn, George Kennedy, Patrick McGoohan and Max von Sydow.

The film's plot concerns General George S. Patton's fatal automobile crash and suggests that the crash was not an accident but the result of a conspiracy.