The Assassination Bureau

The Assassination Bureau has existed for decades (perhaps centuries) until Diana Rigg begins to investigate it…

• Director:Basil Dearden
• Genre:Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
• Runtime:110 minutes

Cast

Oliver Reed : Ivan Dragomiloff
Diana Rigg : Sonya Winter
Telly Savalas : Lord Bostwick
Curd Jürgens : General von Pinck
Philippe Noiret : Monsieur Lucoville

In London, during the early 1900s, aspiring journalist and women’s rights campaigner Sonia Winter (Rigg) uncovers an organization that specialises in killing for money, the Assassination Bureau, Limited. Thinking to bring about its destruction, she commissions the assassination of the bureau’s own chairman, Ivan Dragomiloff (Reed).

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 bureau’s senior members. Little do they realise that this is a plot by Miss Winter’s sponsor, newspaper publisher Lord Bostwick (Savalas), to take over the bureau and plunge Europe into war — Bostwick is the bureau’s vice-chairman and is bitter for having passed over in favour of the founder’s son. Read more

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