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Whereas London original novel was set in the USA, this film is set in Europe.

Plot

London, the early 1900s: aspiring journalist and women's rights campaigner, Sonia Winter (Rigg) uncovers an organization which specialises in killing for money, the Assassination Bureau Limited. Thinking to bring about its destruction, she commissions the assassination of the bureau’s own chairman Ivan Dragomiloff (Reed). London (pronounced ) is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom. ... Ivan Dragomiloff is a fictional character, the chairman of The Assassination Bureau in the book of that name by Jack London. ...

Far from being outraged or upset, Dragomiloff is amused and intrigued and accepts the commission. The guiding principle of his bureau, founded by his father, has always been that there was a moral reason why their victims should be killed. More recently though, his colleagues have tended to kill more for financial gain than for moral reasons.

With Miss Winter in tow, Dragomiloff sets off on a tour of Edwardian Europe, challenging the members of his board of directors: kill him or he will kill them! Little do they realise that this is in fact a plot by Miss Winter's sponsor, newspaper publisher Lord Bostwick (Savalas), to take over the bureau and plunge Europe into war. The Edwardian period or Edwardian era in the United Kingdom is the period 1901 to 1910, the reign of King Edward VII. It is sometimes extended to include the period to the start of World War I in 1914 or even the end of the war in 1918. ...

See also

• The Assassination Bureau, Ltd (novel).
• Assassinations in fiction

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External link

• The Assassination Bureau at the Internet Movie Database