The Assassination Bureau (1969) on Netflix
M19691h 50mActionAdventureComedy
In 1908 London, journalist Sonya Winter uncovers the Assassination Bureau Limited and puts a contract on its chairman, Ivan Dragomiloff. He accepts it and challenges his board to kill him first.
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Sonya Winter, an aspiring journalist and a campaigner for women's rights in Edwardian London, learns of the Assassination Bureau Limited, an organization whose members kill for money. Its chairman is Ivan Dragomiloff, who keeps to the rule that every victim must deserve to die. Sonya's employer, Lord Bostwick, puts up the money for a contract on Dragomiloff's life, and Dragomiloff is amused and accepts it. He calls a board meeting and gives the members a choice: carry out the contract, or he will come after them. Bostwick is named as referee, and Dragomiloff sets out to meet the senior members, with Sonya following to write the story.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Assassination Bureau (1969)
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- In May 1966 United Artists announced Burt Lancaster would star in the film, but Michael Relph kept rewriting and Lancaster was never happy; Relph then offered it to Rex Harrison, who wanted the part, and United Artists refused, sending the project into turnaround.
- By February 1969 the film had still not been released: Diana Rigg said the company was stuck with the title, awkward for America, and Michael Relph blamed a power struggle between Bud Ornstein and Robert Evans at Paramount.
- Jack London bought the storyline for the novel from Sinclair Lewis in 1910 and had written 40,000 words, two-thirds of it, when he died in 1916; Robert L. Fish completed it and it was published in 1963.
