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Director:
Writers:
Robert L. Fish (novel)
Jack London (unfinished novel)
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Release Date:
April 1969 (France) more
Tagline:
Zeppelins. Bombs. Bordellos. Burials. You name it. We have it.
Plot:
The Assassination Bureau has existed for decades (perhaps centuries) until Diana Rigg begins to investigate it... more | full synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 1 nomination more
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THE ASSASSINATION BUREAU (Basil Dearden, 1969) *** more (24 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Oliver Reed ... Ivan Dragomiloff
Diana Rigg ... Sonya Winter

Telly Savalas ... Lord Bostwick
Curd Jürgens ... General von Pinck
Philippe Noiret ... Monsieur Lucoville
Warren Mitchell ... Herr Weiss
Beryl Reid ... Madame Otero
Clive Revill ... Cesare Spado
Kenneth Griffith ... Monsieur Popescu

Vernon Dobtcheff ... Baron Muntzof
Annabella Incontrera ... Eleanora
Jess Conrad ... Angelo
George Coulouris ... Swiss Peasant
Ralph Michael ... Editor
Katherine Kath ... Mme. Lucoville
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Assassination Bureau Limited
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Runtime:
110 min
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Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Last feature film of Eugene Deckers. more
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: Very obvious dummy that falls from the zeppelin at the end of the film. more
Quotes:
Miss Winter: Ivan!
Ivan Dragomiloff: Sir Ivan, if you please. Virtue, it seems, has been rewarded.
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THE ASSASSINATION BUREAU (Basil Dearden, 1969) ***, 30 December 2008
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Author: MARIO GAUCI (marrod@melita.com) from Naxxar, Malta

Typical 1960s big-budget all-star entertainment with an unlikely but intriguing backdrop (the political turmoil in Europe at the beginning of the 20th century) and agreeably treated as black comedy. As can be surmised, the titular organization – headed by Oliver Reed and numbering among its members Telly Savalas, Curt Jurgens, Philippe Noiret, Clive Revill and Kenneth Griffith – disposes of people it deems criminal but which the law apparently can't reach…until some of them start to get too big for their boots, while Reed accepts lady journalist Diana Rigg's offer of a contract on himself!

Stylish and colorful (shot on a variety of stunning European locations and with great care given to sets, costumes and props), the film is vastly entertaining along the way – gleefully poking fun at politics and murder at every turn. Reed and Rigg make a very appealing couple, while Savalas, Jurgens et al have fun sending up their respective images; of course, Rigg and Savalas would be re-teamed that same year for the James Bond outing ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE.

The script, therefore, delivers plenty of suspense and surprise (including numerous disguises and near-escapes for the hero) and is capped by a spectacular climax in which a bomb attack via zeppelin – targeting a castle where all the rulers of Europe have convened for a peace conference – is thwarted.

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