The Liquidator

The Liquidator (1965)

Right between the eyes is where it hits you . . . Boysie Oakes is DEADLIER than the most dangerous spy !

Lighthearted spy drama about Boysie Oakes, who takes a nice job with the British Secret Service, enjoys all the perks, and signs all the forms before learning that his job depends on murdering people, and not romancing all the beautiful civilian staff in Whitehall.

Date of release
1965-11-01
TMDB
6.3 / 10 (23)
Runtime
1h 45m
Genres
Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director
Jack Cardiff

Casting

Interesting facts

The Liquidator is a 1965 British-made, MGM-produced and distributed thriller film directed by Jack Cardiff and starring Rod Taylor, Trevor Howard, and Jill St. John. Wilfrid Hyde-White, Akim Tamiroff, Gabriella Licudi, Eric Sykes, and David Tomlinson appear in support. The picture was based on The Liquidator (1964), the first of a series of Boysie Oakes novels by John Gardner.

Production

Producer Jon Pennington brought Australian screenwriter Peter Yeldham to the project after both had cooperated on The Comedy Man (1963). Yeldham recalled that Pennington acquired the novel, read it on an airplane, and set the film into production in four or five months. As with the first of a projected Jason Love series Where the Spies Are (1966), also filmed in MGM-British Studios, MGM planned a Boysie Oakes film series.

Cardiff recalled that the censors insisted that one of Taylor's lines, "...it smells like a Turkish wrestler's jockstrap", be deleted.

Richard Harris was initially approached for the role but after negotiations chose to do The Heroes of Telemark (1965) instead. Taylor insisted on playing the role with an American accent because he was more comfortable with it by that stage in his career.

The Liquidator started filming in Nice, France on 5 April 1965, with interiors filmed later at MGM-British Studios in Borehamwood.

The film opens with animated titles by the Richard Williams studio.

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