{{Infobox film | name = Double Target | image = Double-target-german-movie-poster-md.jpg | alt = | caption = | native_name = <!-- {{Infobox name module|language|title}} or {{Infobox name module|title}} --> | director = Bruno Mattei | writer = | screenplay = {{plainlist|* Claudio Fragasso * Bruno Mattei<ref name="archiv">{{cite web|url=http://www.archiviodelcinemaitaliano.it/index.php/scheda.html?codice=CD7546|title=Double Target (1987)|accessdate=November 9, 2021|language=Italian|publisher=Archivio del cinema italiano|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190412124425/http://www.archiviodelcinemaitaliano.it/index.php/scheda.html?codice=CD7546|archivedate=April 12, 2019}}</ref>}} | story = {{plainlist|* Claudio Fragasso * Bruno Mattei<ref name="archiv" />}} | based_on = <!-- {{Based on|title of the original work|creator of the original work|additional creator(s), if necessary}} --> | producer = Franco Gaudenzi{{sfn|Budnik|2017|p=142}} | starring = {{plainlist|* Miles O'Keeffe * Donald Pleasence * Bo Svenson * Edison Navarro}} | narrator = | cinematography = Riccardo Grassetti<ref name="archiv" /> | editing = Bruno Mattei<ref name="archiv" /> | music = Stefano Mainetti<ref name="archiv" /> | studio = Flora Film<ref name="archiv" /> | distributor = Variety Distribution | released = {{Film date|df=yes|1987|6|11|West Germany|}} | runtime = | country = Italy | language = Italian<br>English | budget = | gross = }}
'''''Double Target''''' is a 1987 film directed by Bruno Mattei. The film was released theatrically in West Germany as ''Der Kampfgigant'' in 1987.{{sfn|Mues|1988|p=171}}
==Plot== The film starts with terrorists who attack American military bases in several Southeast Asian states. Ex-GI Bob Ross is smuggled into Vietnam by the CIA, where he is supposed to put the masterminds of the attacks out of action. In return, the secret service frees Bob's son who was born there from a re-education camp and brings him home to America. After heavy fighting with Viet Cong soldiers and Russian special forces, Ross also returns victorious to the United States.
==Release== ''Double Target'' was released theatrically in West Germany on June 11, 1987.{{sfn|Mues|1988|p=171}} It was later released in the United Kingdom on the home video label Avatar in August 1987 as ''Double Target''.{{sfn|Hayward|1988|p=155}}
==Reception== From contemporary reviews, the German film almanac ''Fischer Film Almanach'' stated that the film was another hybrid of the other bad Vietnam-themed films made after ''Rambo''.{{sfn|Mues|1988|p=171}} In a retrospective review, Daniel R. Budnik wrote in his book on 1980s action films that ''Double Target'' is "entertaining but a little too long" and that the film "alternates between Sense and No Sense, the way many Mattei films do."{{sfn|Budnik|2017|p=143}}
==References== {{reflist}}
===Sources=== * {{cite book |last=Budnik |first=Daniel R. |title='80s Action Movies on the Cheap: 284 Low Budget, High Impact Pictures |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0786497416 |year=2017 }} * {{cite book |last=Hayward |first=Anthony |year=1988 |chapter=Video Releases |title=Film Review 1988-9 |publisher=Columbus Books | isbn=0-86287-939-6}} * {{cite book|title=Fischer Film Almanach . 1988|year=1988|ISBN=359624479X|editor-last1=Mues|editor-first1=Ingeborg|language=German|publisher=Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag}}
==External links== * {{IMDb title|0092921}} * [https://www.varietydistribution.it/en/catalogue/double-target/ ''Double Target''] at Variety Distribution
{{Bruno Mattei}} {{Claudio Fragasso}}
Category:1987 films Category:Vietnam War films Category:Films directed by Bruno Mattei Category:Films scored by Stefano Mainetti Category:1987 Italian-language films Category:English-language Italian films Category:1987 English-language films Category:1987 multilingual films Category:Italian multilingual films