Fresh
Entire cast play their respective roles broadly and each gives a good account of himself.
Variety Staff, Variety
The Assassination Bureau
Zeppelins. Bombs. Bordellos. Burials. You name It. We have It.
1969 · 1h 50m · M
Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Directed by
Basil Dearden
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Basil Dearden Director
- Oliver Reed as Ivan Dragomiloff
- Diana Rigg as Sonya Winter
- Telly Savalas as Lord Bostwick
- Curd Jürgens as General von Pinck
- Philippe Noiret as Monsieur Lucoville
- Warren Mitchell as Herr Weiss
- Beryl Reid as Madame Otero
- Clive Revill as Cesare Spado
- Kenneth Griffith as Monsieur Popescu
- Vernon Dobtcheff as Baron Muntzof
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
67%
Tomatometer
Rotten
None too witty black comedy.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Fresh
It's never as funny as it looks, but it's a pleasant enough ride if you like your companions.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
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