The Assassination Bureau
1969 · 110 MIN · IMDB 6.4 · 3,624 VOTES · DIR. Basil Dearden
Overview
In 1908 London, a women's rights campaigner discovers the Assassination Bureau Limited, an organization that kills for justice. When its motives are called into question, she commissions the assassination of its chairman. Knowing that his colleagues have recently become more motivated by greed than morality, he turns the situation into a challenge for his board members: kill him or be killed.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,269 lines
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00:00:14 One cannot deny, I suppose, that murder has its uses in society.
00:05:03 Behind the thrones, of course. I am a retiring man.
00:10:31 Business? You're murderers.
00:14:02 Well, I'm not my father, of course
00:17:48 It's really quite simple.
00:21:47 The Albert Memorial?
00:25:37 We shall arrange for you something special.
00:29:31 You see, you're slack as well as degenerate.
00:34:02 Inspector, we have nothing to hide.
00:38:49 You don't go into a butcher to buy a steak
00:43:14 In Switzerland we are efficient, yes?
00:47:29 What good is the Bureau with its best members gone?
00:52:52 Quickly, man, and be careful. Mind the knife!
00:56:03 Bring me a knife.
00:59:14 It's delicious.
01:02:24 How could he have managed it?
01:06:28 Now please sit down.
01:13:31 I shall now have to disappear into hiding.
01:19:12 At Spado's house?
01:22:45 If you would please face the wall, my dear.
01:28:29 Surely that is worth special consideration?
01:34:23 Come on, come on, get busy, there.
01:39:17 All those little houses down there, just pull a lever and poof! They're gone.
01:48:13 Well, really.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,269
Dialogue density11.5 lines / min
First line00:00:14
Final line01:48:13
Production Record
DirectorBasil Dearden
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes3,624