A scene from Targets, written and directed by Peter Bogdanovich and starring Bogdanovich and Boris Karloff. In this scene, Karloff delivers a monologue interpolated by Bogdanovich from Sheppey, a 1933 play by W. Somerset Maugham. (The same monologue supplied John O’Hara with the title of his first novel, Appointment in Samarra.)
Karloff is speaking from memory, which explains his deviations from Maugham’s original text:
(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)
