The Assassination Bureau

The Assassination Bureau

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PG 1969 · 112 min · ★ 6.7 · Action, Adventure, Crime, Comedy, Thriller

In 1908 London, a women's rights campaigner discovers the Assassination Bureau Limited, an organization that kills for justice. When its motives are called into question, she commissions the assassination of its chairman. Knowing that his colleagues have recently become more motivated by greed than morality, he turns the situation into a challenge for his board members: kill him or be killed.

Directed by Basil Dearden · Written by Michael Relph

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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 Spado
Jess Conrad Angelo

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