Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Agents Scott and Cam, along with guest operative Scott McCrea, author of Targets West, learn about the importance of tradecraft in father/son bonding while decoding the 1985 Gene Hackman & Matt Dillon spy drama Target.


Directed by Arthur Penn. Starring Gene Hackman, Matt Dillon, Gayle Hunnicutt, Josef Summer, Guy Boyd, Viktoriya Fyodorova, Herbert Berghof and Ilona Grübel.


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