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The Liquidator is a 1965 British thriller film directed by Jack Cardiff and starring Rod Taylor, Trevor Howard, and Jill St. John. It was based on The Liquidator (1964) the first of a series of Boysie Oakes novels by John Gardner.
The Liquidator: Directed by Jack Cardiff. With Rod Taylor, Trevor Howard, Jill St. John, Wilfrid Hyde-White. Colonel Mostyn of the British Intelligence Service suspects there is a leak in his department and hires an American expatriate to eliminate various targets working for the Soviets.
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Semi-spoofy spy film featuring Rod Taylor as our failing upward espionage hero. Directed by Jack Cardiff (DP on THE RED SHOES among many others), THE LIQUIDATOR looks great. Unusual color palettes and bold use of primary color elevate an otherwise rather lifeless but amicable ilm.
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- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios
- Jack Cardiff
Spy spoof about Boysie Oakes, a British secret agent who specialises in Liquidating. In actual fact he contracts out the work and pretends it was himself. This leads to complications.
One of the first spy spoofs in the wake of Goldfinger (1964), The Liquidator stars Rod Taylor as Boysie Oakes, a reluctant secret agent--or assassin, to be more precise. Boysie enjoys the swinging bachelor pad, the expensive sports car, and the ladies that come with the job.
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Comedy | Crime. Colonel Mostyn is the chief of a section of the British Security Services when they are embarrassed by the number of spies and defections. The Chief tells him to do something about it so he hires Boys Oaks as Agent L - The Liquidator, to assassinate people about to cause trouble.
