El club de los asesinos ( The Assassination Bureau ) ( Greece )

The Assassination Bureau (DVD) (*)

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Alternate Title: The Assassination Bureau Limited
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Golden Globes
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Mono )
Spanish ( Mono )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
110 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1969 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Basil Dearden

Written By:
Robert L. Fish
Jack London

Actors:
Oliver Reed ..... Ivan Dragomiloff
Diana Rigg ..... Sonya Winter
Telly Savalas ..... Lord Bostwick
Curd Jürgens ..... General von Pinck
Philippe Noiret ..... Monsieur Lucoville
Warren Mitchell ..... Herr Weiss
Beryl Reid ..... Madame Otero
Clive Revill ..... Cesare Spado
Kenneth Griffith ..... Monsieur Popescu
Vernon Dobtcheff ..... Baron Muntzof
Annabella Incontrera ..... Eleanora Spado
Jess Conrad ..... Angelo
George Coulouris ..... Swiss Peasant
Ralph Michael ..... Editor
Katherine Kath ..... Mme. Lucoville

Synopsis:

In London in the early 1900s reporter Sonya Winter (Diana Rigg) is researching the possibility of assassins using newspaper articles that serve as signals to high-profile murders that have been occurring. Winter shocked to find that businessman Ivan Dragomiloff (Oliver Reed) runs an assassination bureau, an organization that, for a price, will kill anyone in the world, but mostly certain high-profile transgressors. Sonya is a staunch supporter of womans rights and as a way of making a political statement that she can report in her newspaper, she offers to pay Ivan an enormous amount of money if he will have his bureau kill him. Ivan readily agrees thinking that the stunt will be good public relations and a boost to his business. But Lord Bostwick (Telly Savalas) wants control of the business Ivan has established and attempts to make sure that the contract is fulfilled and Ivan taken out of the way. As Winter follows Dragomiloff to report on his eventual demise, they fall in love and she finds herself reversing her feelings about his bureau, but it may be too late to avoid the onslaught of assassins.

For her first assignment a lady journalist tracks down the head of an organisation offering to kill, for money, people deserving of such a fate. She thinks herself very clever when he agrees to take a contract with himself as the target. What she doesn't know is that her paper's owner is second-in-command in the Bureau and has his own reasons for supporting her challenge.

The Assassination Bureau has existed for decades (perhaps centuries) until 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.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 11 June, 2010.

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