The Assassination Bureau

The Assassination Bureau Limited released in North America as The Assassination Bureau is a black comedy Technicolor film made in 1969 based on an unfinished novel, The Assassination Bureau, Ltd by Jack London. It stars Oliver Reed, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas, and Curt Jrgens and was directed by Basil Dearden. Unlike Londons original novel, which is set in the United States, the film is set in Europe.

Far from being outraged or angry, Dragomiloff 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. Dragomiloff, 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, Dragomiloff sets off on a tour of Edwardian Europe, challenging and systematically purging the bureaus senior members. Little do they realise that this is a plot by Miss Winters sponsor, newspaper publisher Lord Bostwick Telly Savalas, to take over the bureau and plunge Europe into war Bostwick is the bureaus vicechairman and is bitter for having been passed over in favour of the founders son. ........

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