Assassination Bureau

Titolo originale: The Assassination Bureau

1969
PG
1h 50min

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Period Drama Action Adventure Comedy Crime Thriller

Oliver Reed e Diana Rigg conducono un impeccabile cast nel film The Assassination Bureau, un "caper movie" pieno di spirito ispirato a un libro il cui co-autore è Jack London.Oliver Reed e Diana Rigg conducono un impeccabile cast nel film The Assassination Bureau, un "caper movie" pieno di spirito ispirato a un libro il cui co-autore è Jack London.Oliver Reed e Diana Rigg conducono un impeccabile cast nel film The Assassination Bureau, un "caper movie" pieno di spirito ispirato a un libro il cui co-autore è Jack London.

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Oliver Reed

Ivan Dragomiloff

Diana Rigg

Sonya Winter

Telly Savalas

Lord Bostwick

Curd Jürgens

Gen. von Pinck
(as Curt Jurgens)

Philippe Noiret

Monsieur Lucoville

Warren Mitchell

Herr Weiss

Beryl Reid

Madame Otero

Clive Revill

Cesare Spado

Vernon Dobtcheff

Baron Muntzof

Annabella Incontrera

Eleanora Spado

Kenneth Griffith

Monsieur Popescu

Jess Conrad

Angelo

George Coulouris

Swiss Peasant

Katherine Kath

Mme. Lucoville

Olaf Pooley

Swiss Cashier

John Abineri

Police Inspector
(non citato nei titoli originali)

John Adams

French President
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Jonathan Adams

French President
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7/10

Worth watching for Reed and Rigg

This film is an enjoyable enough lightweight romp, with an array of locations and actors that is perhaps excessive.

Oliver Reed is suavely bucaneering as the main protaganist, while the other main star, Diana Rigg of Avengers fame, does a very well-judged comic performance as the feminist journalist in 1910. It's a shame she didn't appear in more films. No other actors get much of a chance to shine, as there are far too many minor characters.

The writing is OK; you get the feeling that there should be more laughs than there are. Still, it's an enjoyable enough way to spend an hour and a half.

Rating:- *** (out of *****)

Quiz
Jack London's original novel was left markedly incomplete at the time of his death, and it was not until many decades later that the thriller-writer Robert L. Fish (also known as Robert L. Pike) finished it for publication, amidst much publicity. The novel is noticeably more serious in tone than this movie, although a New York Times review at the time called it "delightfully ridiculous."

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In the scene, about 40-45 minutes in, where Lord Bostwick visits General Van Pinck whilst the latter is at fencing practice, you will see a map of Europe on the wall. Although this film ostensibly takes place before World War I, the map is of post-Versailles Europe, c.1925-1939.

Citazioni
Miss Winter: With your ideas, I'm surprised you're shocked at the thought of war.
Ivan Dragomiloff: Not at all. It's purely a matter of business. How can we charge our sort of prices with everybody happily killing each other for a shilling a day?