Permission to Kill (1975)

Directed by

Cyril Frankel

Genre

spy film

Country

United Kingdom, Austria, United States

Runtime

1h 38m

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A British agent tries to prevent a dissident from returning to a repressive Eastern European country. He must also deal with the dissident's formidable lover and his own intelligence superiors.

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What happens

Permission to Kill (also known as The Executioner and Vollmacht Zum Mord) is a 1975 Austrian/American/British spy thriller film directed by Cyril Frankel and starring Dirk Bogarde, Ava Gardner and Bekim Fehmiu with Timothy Dalton, Nicole Calfan and Frederic Forrest. It was produced by Paul Mills from a screenplay by Robin Estridge, made by Sascha-Verleih and distributed by AVCO Embassy Pictures in the USA and in the UK and internationally by Warner Bros. The film had original music by Richard Rodney Bennett and the cinematography was by Freddie Young. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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