The Assassination Bureau
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Basil Dearden
Oliver Reed
Diana Rigg
Telly Savalas
Curt Jurgens
Warren Mitchell
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
In turn-of-the-century England, Sonya Winter decides to invade the male-dominated world of journalism by proving that a series of murders are the work of a single organization. Once she has persuaded a wealthy newspaper proprietor, Lord Bostwick, to back her venture, Sonya poses as a prospective client and makes contact with the organization's chairman, Ivan Dragomiloff. She learns from him that the Assassination Bureau was founded by Ivan's father for the purpose of eliminating people who deserve to die. After offering £20,000 to dispose of a suitable candidate, Sonya startles Ivan by telling him that he is the man she wants assassinated. Admitting that the bureau has become motivated more by greed than by its original ideals, Ivan accepts the assignment. He assembles the bureau's members, including Lord Bostwick, and informs them that since they all deserve to die he will try to kill them before they can kill him. Lord Bostwick, who dreams of using the bureau to control the world, offers a £10,000 bonus to the successful assassin, but Ivan travels to the Continent with Sonya and uses every conceivable means to outmaneuver and destroy his opponents. By the time they reach Venice, Sonya has fallen in love with Ivan, and she aids him in duping the bureau into believing that he has been poisoned by the widow of Cesare Spado, Bostwick's trusted assistant. Inflated with confidence, Bostwick plots with the German bureau member, General von Pinck, to drop a bomb from a zeppelin on a castle where the kings and queens of Europe have assembled for a peace conference. But Ivan climbs aboard the zeppelin as it departs and corners Bostwick and von Pinck. When Bostwick fires his gun, the zeppelin catches fire and plunges to earth as Ivan alone manages to escape. A grateful Europe decorates Ivan for his gallantry, and Sonya is on hand to offer him her love.
Director
Basil Dearden
Cast
Oliver Reed
Diana Rigg
Telly Savalas
Curt Jurgens
Warren Mitchell
Philippe Noiret
Kenneth Griffith
Vernon Dobtcheff
Clive Revill
Beryl Reid
Annabella Incontrera
Jess Conrad
George Coulouris
Ralph Michael
Katherine Kath
Eugene Deckers
Olaf Pooley
George Murcell
Michael Wolf
Gordon Sterne
Peter Bowles
William Kendall
Jeremy Lloyd
Roger Delgado
Maurice Browning
Clive Gazes
Gerik Schjelderup
Milton Reid
Frank Thornton
Crew
Ken Barker
Les Bowie
Thomas "knobby" Clark
Teddy Darvas
Beatrice Dawson
Basil Dearden
John Dennis
Robert Ellis
Ron Grainer
Ron Grainer
Wolf Mankowitz
Barrie Melrose
Dudley Messenger
Charles Orme
John Peverall
John Poyner
Michael Relph
Michael Relph
Michael Relph
Michael Relph
Barbara Ritchie
Hal Shaper
Roy Smith
Helen Thomas
Geoffrey Unsworth
Frank White
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
Location scenes filmed in London, Paris, Zurich, Vienna, and Venice. Opened in London in March 1969. May also be known as The Assassination Bureau Limited.
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in England March 1969
Released in United States March 23, 1969
Released in United States on Video February 24, 1993
Released in United States Winter January 20, 1969
Released in United States Winter January 20, 1969
Released in United States on Video February 24, 1993
Released in United States March 23, 1969
