Assassination (1987)

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Assassination is a 1987 American action thriller film directed by Peter Hunt and starring Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Charles Howerton, Jan Gan Boyd, Stephen Elliott, and Chris Alcaide. The plot is about a bodyguard who is assigned to protect the First Lady of the United States against an assassination plot.

Production

The film was Jill Ireland's first in three years following an operation for breast cancer. (Ireland had been co-producer on Murphy's Law.) "I was terribly grateful to Menahem and Yoram for wanting me for the part," Ireland said. "I'd thought the cancer might have ended my acting career. They asked me to do the film at my birthday party last year and it was the best present I could have received.

It was originally called My Affair With the President's Wife, then The President's Wife, The Assassin and finally, Assassination.

The film's producer Pancho Kohner wanted the film called The President's Wife and as "far as we're concerned, it's not going to be called anything else." A Cannon spokesman said "There was some concern that `Assassin' might have a negative connotation and the crew might not get cooperation-people in Washington are worried about terrorism."

"Someone thought the original title might be insulting to the presidency of the United States, so they changed it," said Bronson "There's an assassination involved so they stuck with that. They didn't want to scare off people who come to see my films with a title like President's Wife. It's not what people expect from one of my pictures."

The film was shot in May 1986. Ireland says the first week "everyone was solicitous" but after that she was "treated like everyone else."

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