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Assignment to Kill

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•5.9/10
CrimeDramaMystery

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5.9/10(7)

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.

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Production

William Conrad Productions

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Patrick O'Neal

Patrick O'Neal

Richard Cutting

Joan Hackett

Joan Hackett

Dominique Laurant

John Gielgud

John Gielgud

Curt Valayan

Herbert Lom

Herbert Lom

Matt Wilson

Eric Portman

Eric Portman

Notary

Peter van Eyck

Peter van Eyck

Walter Green

Oskar Homolka

Oskar Homolka

Inspector Ruff

Leon Greene

Leon Greene

The Big Man

Kent Smith

Kent Smith

Mr. Eversley

Philip Ober

Philip Ober

Bohlen

Fifi D'Orsay

Fifi D'Orsay

Mrs. Hennie

Éva Szörényi

Éva Szörényi

Landlady (as Eva Soreny)

Cynthia O'Neal

Felice Valayan (as Cynthia Baxter)

Martin Miller

Martin Miller

Police Chief (uncredited)

Charles H. Radilak

Manager (uncredited)

Erik Sorenson

Bellboy (uncredited)

Betty Bresler

Secretary (uncredited)

Joanne Ludden

Receptionist (uncredited)

Walter Friedel

Secretary (uncredited)

Karl Bruck

Waiter (uncredited)

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