In Peter Bogdanovich’s debut film, Targets, Boris Karloff has a semi-autobiographical role as Byron Orlok, an aged horror film actor who wants to retire. Bogdanovich used material from actual films that Karloff starred, in order to connect Orlok’s past with the plot. Above, Karloff watch himself on TV, in Howard Hawks’ The Criminal Code (1931).
Also, in the drive-in theatre scene near the end of the film, Karloff attends the screening of Roger Corman’s The Terror (1963), in which he has starred five years ago.
Scenes from Peter Bogdanovich’s Targets (1968).
