The Assassination Bureau (1969)

Directed by

Basil Dearden

Genre

spy film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 50m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 90 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

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The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A woman journalist hires a secret society of assassins, but their leader turns the tables on his own members. He dares them to kill him before he kills them, as he sets out to eliminate the senior ranks of the organization.

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What happens

The Assassination Bureau Limited (also known as The Assassination Bureau in the United States) is a 1969 British Technicolor black comedy adventure film, produced by Michael Relph, directed by Basil Dearden, and starring Oliver Reed, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas, and Curd Jürgens. It was released in the U.S. by Paramount Pictures and is based on Jack London's unfinished novel, The Assassination Bureau, Ltd, posthumously completed and published in 1963. Unlike the novel, which is set in the United States, the film is set in Europe. The Assassination Bureau Limited was the penultimate film of Basil Dearden. The film is set in the Edwardian era. In the film, a female journalist commissions the assassination of the chairman of an organization of assassins. The chairman challenges the members of his organization to kill him. If they fail, he will kill them. He is orchestrating a purge of his organization's senior members. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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