
The Long Goodbye(1973)
In 1970s Hollywood, Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.


“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.”
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.

Patrick O'Neal
Richard Cutting

Joan Hackett
Dominique Laurant

John Gielgud
Curt Valayan

Herbert Lom
Matt Wilson

Eric Portman
Notary

Peter van Eyck
Walter Green

Oskar Homolka
Inspector Ruff

Leon Greene
The Big Man

Kent Smith
Mr. Eversley

Philip Ober
Bohlen
Assignment to Kill is a crime, drama, mystery film released in 1968 exploring themes of detective, zurich, switzerland, insurance fraud, bluff, murder. Directed by Sheldon Reynolds, it stars Patrick O'Neal, Joan Hackett, John Gielgud. 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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