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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780792198765
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 079219876X
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 13, 2004
Running Time: 109 minutes
Sales Rank: 30292
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: 1969
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - When Eating, Be Wary Of Exploding Sausages!
The basic premise of this movie is that there is a secret organization of assassins that are hard at work plying their trade throughout Europe doing what they do best, but the story is soooooo much more than that.
The central characters in this movie are played by Oliver Reed as the leader of the "Assassination Bureau" and Diana Rigg as the nosy reporter who hires Reed to assassinate himself. Telly Savalas plays a dual role of sorts as the owner of a newspaper and, the second in command ... Read More
Rating:  - A Great Movie - Little-Seen
"The Assassination Bureau" was an unfinished novel from the pen of Jack London. Another writer took London's outline and finished it and several years later it became this fun movie starring Oliver Reed, Diana Rigg, and Telly Savalas, released in 1969 by Paramount Pictures. The movie deviates a little from the book, but all-in-all, both are equally enjoyable. The British director, Basil Dearden, was one of the more interesting directors working in the UK from the late 40s through the late 60s. Many ... Read More
Rating: - Oh how I wish we had such a Bureau today!
This is a simple silly movie about a fictitious bureau that evaluates governing moguls and occasionally dispatches them when they misbehave. Telly Sevalas turns the bureau upon itself so as to eliminate the assassins and good governments thus benefitting his commercial interests. It's a race around Europe with the assassins and Sevalas in pursuit of Reed and Rigg. R & R use subterfuge to dispatch Sevalas and put the Bureau back on track.
Rating: - "Virtue, it seems, has been rewarded." "Well, really!"
This is one of my four favorite late 60's comedies that I used to make a point of watching for and watching again and again every time they were shown on TV. "The Assassination Bureau" is based on the unfinished Jack London novel, The Assassination Bureau, Ltd. (Twentieth-Century Classics), posthumously completed by Robert L. Fish with the assistance of London's and his wife's notes. London had basically written himself into a corner, which Fish only did a marginal job of extricating the novel from. The ... Read More
Rating: - Amusing Caper
"The Assassination Bureau" has an amusing premise and for the most part executes it ably enough. Oliver Reed stars as the head of a consortium of international assassins who takes on an interesting assignment. Crusading reporter Diana Rigg contracts his organization to kill him. Reed takes up this proposal because he feels that it will enable him to weed out the weaknesses in the organization. Assistant Chairman Telly Savalas has other ideas, however. The film starts off well enough, has kind of a clunky ... Read More
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