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Assignment to Kill
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Assignment to Kill

May 1, 1968
1h 42m
★ 6.0

Poor Dominique...she was always in hot water. Now she was in over her head - in the middle of a $15,000,000 international conspiracy. Richard Cutting's dead girl friend triggers this assignment to kill.

Overview

A private eye is hired by an insurance company to investigate a shipping magnate suspected of deliberately sinking his own ships for the insurance money. He finds himself involved in a web of deception, double-crossing and murder.

Genres

Crime
Drama
Mystery

Production Companies

William Conrad Productions

Cast

Patrick O'Neal

Richard Cutting

Patrick O'Neal

Joan Hackett

Dominique Laurant

Joan Hackett

John Gielgud

Curt Valayan

John Gielgud

Herbert Lom

Matt Wilson

Herbert Lom

Eric Portman

Notary

Eric Portman

Peter van Eyck

Walter Green

Peter van Eyck

Oskar Homolka

Inspector Ruff

Oskar Homolka

Leon Greene

The Big Man

Leon Greene

Kent Smith

Mr. Eversley

Kent Smith

Philip Ober

Bohlen

Philip Ober

Fifi D'Orsay

Mrs. Hennie

Fifi D'Orsay

Éva Szörényi

Landlady (as Eva Soreny)

Éva Szörényi

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