The Assassination Bureau Limited is a black comedy 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 Jürgens and was directed by Basil Dearden. Whereas London's original novel was set in the USA, this film is set in Europe. In London, during the early 1900s, aspiring journalist and women's rights campaigner Sonia Winter uncovers an organization that specializes 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 . 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.
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| Release date: | 1969 |
| Directed by: | Basil Dearden |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 110 Minutes |
| Producer: | Michael Relph |
| Cinematography: | Geoffrey Unsworth |
| Screenplay by: | Wolf Mankowitz, Michael Relph |
| Adapted from: | The Assassination Bureau, Ltd |
| Genre: | Comedy, Action, Thriller |