Human Target (film)

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{{Infobox film

| name = Human Target

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| director = Howard Rubie

| producer = Roger Mirams
Ron McLean

| writer = Ron McLean

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| starring = Jack Thompson
Pat Bishop
Enid Lorimer
Edmund Pegge
Peter Sumner

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| distributor = Network Nine

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| released = {{Film date|1974}}

| runtime = 90 mins

| country = Australia

| language = English

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Human Target is a 1974 Australian film about a special agent investigating the opium trade.Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p82{{cite news|first=Dale|last=Plummer|title=$2 million in feature film program|page=100|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald |date=April 4, 1976}} The same team had just made Spyforce which also featured Jack Thompson.{{cite web|access-date=2 July 2025|date=2 July 2025|website=In Daily|url=https://www.indailyqld.com.au/inreview/film-tv/2025/07/02/jack-thompsons-brilliant-career-how-it-began-and-why-he-turned-his-back-on-movie-stardom?|title=Jack Thompson’s brilliant career: How it began and why he turned his back on movie stardom|first=Stephen|last=Vagg}}

It was one of three TV movies that Channel Nine made, with a budget of a million dollars all up. The others were The Spiral Bureau and Paradise.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article46947649 |title=A MOVIE YEAR FOR YOU! |newspaper=The Australian Women's Weekly |volume=43 |issue=46 |location=Australia |date=14 April 1976 |accessdate=4 September 2018 |page=21 |via=National Library of Australia}}