Assignment to Kill
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.
1968 · 1h 42m · Not Rated
Crime, Drama, Mystery
Directed by
Sheldon Reynolds
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.
Director and cast
- Sheldon Reynolds Director
- Patrick O'Neal as Richard Cutting
- Joan Hackett as Dominique Laurant
- John Gielgud as Curt Valayan
- Herbert Lom as Matt Wilson
- Eric Portman as Notary
- Peter van Eyck as Walter Green
- Oskar Homolka as Inspector Ruff
- Leon Greene as The Big Man
- Kent Smith as Mr. Eversley
- Philip Ober as Bohlen
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