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The Assassination Bureau
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })A classic British Black Comedy film from 1969, directed by Basil Dearden and adapted from the novel The Assassination Bureau, Ltd (which was started by Jack London in 1910, left unfinished, and completed by Robert L. Fish in 1963).Oliver Reed plays Ivan Dragomiloff, the head of a Murder, Inc. gang in Edwardian London. While he is quite proud of his accomplishments, he feels that his subordinates have lost track of the high moral standard on which his father founded the association: No killing unless it can be determined that Murder Is the Best Solution. To that end, he accepts an offer from journalist Sonia Winter (Diana Rigg): If they can't kill him, he will kill them.Of course, he also has reason to believe that his 2IC (Telly Savalas) has reasons of his own for wanting him dead. | |
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Burlesque: The entire scene at the bordello plays into this trope, both the humorous Slap Stick and the bawdy innuendo and titillation aspects. The Chase Scene (complete with bursting in on various couples, in various states of dishabille) is vintage, and the fact that several articles of women's lingerie get dumped out a window on the heads of the local gendarmes leads to the sort of police indecency raid which was Truth in Television for places with such entertainment at the time. | |
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Chekhov's Gun:Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); }) | |
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The Cavalry Arrives Late: After being refused admittance to the castle where all the heads of Europe are meeting for a peace conference, Sonia takes advantage of the helpful hint provided by one of the guards that they will not refuse a crossing for the Sisters of Mercy to return dressed as a nun. But when she comes bursting inside with her warning about the bomb and shoves her way past the guards, cursing up a storm (for the time, anyway), she finds Ivan has already gotten there ahead of her, saved the day, and has been knighted for his efforts. | |
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Attending Your Own Funeral: Downplayed example; by hiding in the coffin (which was supposed to hold his own body anyway), Ivan is able to listen in and hear Bostwick's plans, but this is just during a brief wake before the coffin is to be disposed of. | |
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