The Assassination Bureau
The Assassination Bureau is a
film made in 1969 based on the unfinished book by
Jack London. It stars
Oliver Reed,
Diana Rigg, and
Telly Savalas.
In the movie, Miss Winter (Rigg), a journalist in
London in the early 1900s, discovers an organization devoted to killing for money known as the Assassination Bureau Limited. Thinking to bring an end to the bureau, she cleverly commissions an assassination, that of the chairman of the bureau himself,
Ivan Dragomiloff (Reed). Rather than being upset, Ivan is amused and intrigued by the proposition and accepts it. 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. However, their more recent killings have been more for financial gain than moral benefits.
With Miss Winter in tow, Dragomiloff sets off on a tour of
Edwardian Europe challenging the members of his board of directors: either his colleagues kill him or he will kill them!
Little do they realise that this is in fact a plot by Miss Winter's sponsor, newspaper publisher Lord Bostwick (Telly Savalas), to take over the Bureau and plunge Europe into war!
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Assassinations in fiction
