The Assassination Bureau (1969)

Action, Adventure, Comedy, General Film

Director: Basil Dearden

Writer(s): Michael Relph (screenplay), Jack London (unfinished novel) &
Robert L. Fish (novel), Wolf Mankowitz (additional dialogue)

Starring: Oliver Reed, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas, Curd Jürgens, Philippe Noiret, Warren Mitchell, Beryl Reid, Clive Revill, Vernon Dobtcheff, Annabella Incontrera, Kenneth Griffith, Jess Conrad, George Coulouris, Katherine Kath, Olaf Pooley, Rudolf Jelínek, Jirí Lír, Maggie Wright, John Abineri, Jonathan Adams, Patrick Allen, Neal Arden, Sydney Arnold, Pauline Barker, Jane Bates, Victor Beaumont, Peter Bowles, Maurice Browning, Clive Cazes, Mona Chong, Maxwell Craig, John Crocker, Bill Cummings, Anthony Dawes, Alicia Deane, Eugene Deckers, Roy Degay, Jim Delaney, Roger Delgado, Carmen Dene, Dominique Don, Sally Douglas, Steve Emerson, Fred Emney, Felix Felton, Harry Fielder, Ray Ford, Michael Gover, Angela Grant, Peter Graves, Dianne Greaves, Olive Gregg, John Hallam, Maurice Hedley, John G. Heller, Arthur Hewlett, Hubert Hill, Katharine Holden, Stephen Hubay, Malcolm Johns, William Kendall, Elizabeth Knight, Jeremy Lloyd, Nita Lorraine, Philip Madoc, Terence Maidment, Michael Mellinger, Ralph Michael, Georgina Moon, George Murcell, Jim O’Brady, Milton Reid, Robert Rietty, Gerik Schjelderup, Gordon Sterne, Kevin Stoney, Frank Thornton, Dermot Tuohy, Colin Vancao, Sue Vaughan, Desmond Walter-Ellis, Chris Webb, Sheree Winton, Michael Wolf, Karen Young, Raymond Young

Synopsis: The Assassination Bureau has existed for decades (perhaps centuries) until Sonya Winter (Dame Diana Rigg) begins to investigate it. The high moral standing of the Bureau (only killing those who deserve it) is called into question by her. She puts out a contract for the Bureau to assassinate its leader on the eve of World War I.

Release Date: March 10, 1969 (UK) | Length: 110 min | Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy | Certificate: M

Note: I didn’t find a trailer for this film. Above is a clip from the movie. Alicia Deane is only in the film for a few moments.