Stolen Title from a Classic Documentary
TARGET FOR TONIGHT is the title of an ambitious and unusual WWII documentary film about one RAF bomber squadron and featuring one aircraft and crew, "F for Freddie." It's a great film, one I saw in film school long ago and wanted to see again. Despite the identical title, this is not the classic film.The producers of this 2004 compilation program used the title of the earlier film and they must have done so knowing that this decision would create confusion. Other reviewers have commented on the title issue. I will add that, despite the title and the illustration on the disk jacket, the production company appears to have recycled WWII archival footage, much of it unrelated to the bomber campaign, and then tried to tie it together with the narration. With a different tile this would perhaps have been a worthwhile production, despite the many similar productions on the same topic.