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Synopsis: 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.
Director(s): Basil Dearden
Production: Paramount Pictures
  Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Rotten Tomatoes:
71%
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Year:
1969
110 min
176 Views


Business? You're murderers.

Our proper title is

the Assassination Bureau, Limited.

- Our dividends are quite substantial.

- You admit you take life for money.

Money is life, don't you agree?

The lack of it has killed more people

one way or another than

100 Assassination Bureaus.

Human life is possibly the most

expendable commodity we possess.

It's so easily replaced,

and so pleasurably.

This is fantastic.

You're a monster.

No. My father only saw to it that I was

educated in the logic of my profession.

- He was somewhat of a philosopher.

- I'm not interested in him.

- May we get down to business?

- Certainly. Please be seated.

Very well, then.

What about your fees?

Oh, we have a sliding scale, according

to the importance of the victim.

Quality is always worth paying for.

We have very high overheads.

Since taking over, I have tried

to completely modernize our methods.

This, after all, is the age of science.

Take, for instance, this little bomb.

We've just issued it

to all our branches.

It can be timed to go off

at any hour one chooses.

And its tick is no louder

than a normal clock.

Switched off, it's as harmless

as your pocket watch...

...unless you drop it, of course.

Miss Winter, please don't be shy.

Confide in me as you would

in a doctor or a priest.

Whom do you wish to kill?

You will undertake this assignment,

Mr. Dragomiloff?

I shall want justification.

Of what sins is he guilty?

Pride.

- Avarice.

- Oh, dear, dear.

And murder.

He seems a suitable candidate.

You guarantee that he will be killed?

You have my word.

The name, please.

Very well, then. His name is...

...lvan Dragomiloff.

I shall need further identification.

He is of Russian extraction,

though educated in England.

Physical characteristics?

Approximately your size,

weight and age.

I was born in the province of Valenko.

Where was your man born?

In the province of Valenko.

I am compelled to believe

that you mean me.

I do.

You puzzle me, Miss Winter.

We've never met, yet you want my life.

Why? Why?

Because of my organization?

Because you believe "kill me,

kill my bureau." Is that it? Is that it?!

What an absolutely marvelous idea.

It was not intended to amuse you.

But it does. It intrigues me too.

It will let me put my aging colleagues

on their mettle. Wonderful.

Since you'll enjoy it, perhaps you'd

give me a bargain price?

There's one matter upon which my

board never compromise, on finance.

Without self-flattery,

you'll never afford me.

Name your price.

Well, I'm not my father, of course,

but in all due honesty I couldn't put

myself in at a penny less than...

...20,000 pounds.

- What a pity.

- I accept.

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Michael Relph

Michael Leighton George Relph (16 February 1915 – 30 September 2004) was an English film producer, art director, writer and film director. He was the son of actor George Relph. more…

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