词条 | The Assassination Bureau |
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| name = The Assassination Bureau Limited | image = Assassinationbureau poster.jpeg | caption = U.S. theatrical release poster | director = Basil Dearden | producer = Michael Relph | based on = {{based on|The Assassination Bureau, Ltd. 1963 novel|Jack London Robert L. Fish}} | screenplay = Michael Relph Wolf Mankowitz | starring = Oliver Reed Diana Rigg Telly Savalas Curd Jürgens | music = Ron Grainer | cinematography = Geoffrey Unsworth | editing = Teddy Darvas | distributor = Paramount Pictures | released = 10 March 1969 | runtime = 110 minutes | country = United Kingdom | language = English | budget = }} The Assassination Bureau Limited (a.k.a. The Assassination Bureau in the United States) is a 1969 UK black comedy adventure film in Technicolor, produced by Michael Relph, directed by Basil Dearden, that stars Oliver Reed, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas, and Curd Jürgens. It is based on an unfinished novel, The Assassination Bureau, Ltd by Jack London. Unlike London's novel, which is set in the United States, the film is set in Europe. The film was released in the U.S. by Paramount Pictures. PlotIn London, during the early 1900s, aspiring journalist and women's rights campaigner Sonia Winter (Diana Rigg) uncovers an organisation that specialises in killing for money, the Assassination Bureau, Limited. To bring about its destruction, she commissions the assassination of the bureau's own chairman, Ivan Dragomiroff (Oliver Reed). Far from being outraged or angry, Dragomiroff is amused and delighted and decides to put it to his own advantage. The guiding principle of his bureau, founded by his father, has always been that there was a moral reason why their victims should be killed – these have included despots and tyrants. More recently though, his elder colleagues have tended to kill more for financial gain than for moral reasons. Dragomiroff, therefore, decides to accept the commission of his own death and challenge the other board members: Kill him or he will kill them! With Miss Winter in tow, Dragomiroff sets off on a tour of Edwardian Europe, challenging and systematically purging the bureau's senior members. Little do they realise that this is a plot by Miss Winter's sponsor, newspaper publisher Lord Bostwick (Telly Savalas), to take over the bureau {Bostwick is the bureau's vice-chairman and is bitter for having been passed over in favour of the founder's son}. Bostwick and the other members of the Bureau plan to get rich quick by the "biggest killing" of them all — buying stocks in arms factories and then propelling Europe into war by assassinating all the heads of state of Europe while they attend a secret peace conference where the kings, emperors and prime Ministers of Europe are trying to avoid a possible war caused by a Balkan prince who was killed by a bomb intended for Dragomiroff Dragomiroff and Miss Winter uncover the plot — dropping a bomb from a hijacked Zeppelin airship onto the castle in Ruthenia where the peace conference is held. Dragomiroff steals aboard the airship and destroys it, killing the remaining members of his board of directors. He is then decorated by the heads of state he has saved. It is implied that Dragomiroff may wed Miss Winter as well. CastMain cast{{div col}}
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Video releasesThis film was issued on LaserDisc in the mid-1990s. It has also been released on VHS and on a Region 1 DVD. See also
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19 : 1969 films|1960s action films|1960s comedy films|1960s thriller films|British films|British action films|British black comedy films|British thriller films|English-language films|Films about assassinations|Films based on American novels|Films based on works by Jack London|Films directed by Basil Dearden|Films set in the 1900s|Films set in London|Films set in Venice|Paramount Pictures films|Films shot at Pinewood Studios|Films scored by Ron Grainer |
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