Venetian Bird ( The Assassin ) ( Venitian Bird )

Venetian Bird (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: The Assassin
Alternate Title: Venitian Bird
Language Selections:
English ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
91 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1952 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Ralph Thomas

Written By:
Victor Canning

Actors:
Richard Todd ..... Edward Mercer
Eva Bartok ..... Adriana Medova
John Gregson ..... Renzo Uccello
George Coulouris ..... Chief of Police Spadoni
Margot Grahame ..... Rosa Melitus
Walter Rilla ..... Count Boria
John Bailey ..... Lt. Longo
Sid James ..... Bernardo
Martin Boddey ..... Gufo
Michael Balfour ..... Moretto
Sydney Tafler ..... Boldesca
Miles Malleson ..... Grespi
Eric Pohlmann ..... Gostini
David Hurst ..... Minelli
Raymond Young ..... Luigi

Synopsis:

Private detective Edward Mercer goes to Venice at the request of a French insurance company to locate a brave Italian whom they wish to reward for his part in the rescue of an Allied airman shot down during the war. At least, that is what Mercer thinks as he steps off the steamer at the Piazza San Marco and is greeted by a smiling street photographer, Cassana. Mercer makes his way to a shop and finds his first contact dead from a knife stab, and the trail leads him to Adrianna. He faces danger from police chief Spaloni and also from a group of foreign patriots, led by Count Borian and Lieutenant Longo, who want to use him as a stool-pigeon for a planned Coup d'Etat. A hectic race across the roof tops, high above the great square, brings Mercer to grips against his unknown enemy.

Private detective Edward Mercer (Todd) goes to Venice at the request of a French insurance company to locate a brave Italian whom they wish to reward for his part in the rescue of an Allied airman shot down during the war. At least, that is what Mercer thinks as he steps off the steamer at the Piazza San Marco but soon he finds himself in deadly danger when he finds his first contact dead.

British private detective Edward Mercer (Richard Todd) is employed to travel to Venice and locate an Italian who is to be rewarded for his assistance to Allied airmen during the Second World War. Once he arrives in Italy, however, he becomes mixed up in an assassination and a great deal of mystery.

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