The Liquidator is a 1965 MGM film starring Rod Taylor as Brian "Boysie" Oakes, Trevor Howard as his Intelligence Chief Mostyn and Jill St. John as Mostyn's secretary Iris MacIntosh. It was based on the first of a series of Boysie Oakes novels by John Gardner The Liquidator (novel).
The film follows John Gardner's 1964 novel closely. The novel begins at the end of World War II when British Tank Corps Sergeant Oakes unwittingly saves British Intell...
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The Liquidator is a 1965 MGM film starring Rod Taylor as Brian "Boysie" Oakes, Trevor Howard as his Intelligence Chief Mostyn and Jill St. John as Mostyn's secretary Iris MacIntosh. It was based on the first of a series of Boysie Oakes novels by John Gardner The Liquidator (novel).
The film follows John Gardner's 1964 novel closely. The novel begins at the end of World War II when British Tank Corps Sergeant Oakes unwittingly saves British Intelligence Major Mostyn from an assassination attempt in Paris.
Twenty years later Mostyn's memories have elevated Oakes into a fearless master assassin when nothing could be further from the truth. He recruits Oakes into the Secret Service where after a training course, he is given the code name "L" whilst HM Government provides him with an enviable lifestyle. When the cowardly Oakes discovers that his function is to 'liquidate' security risks to the State, he hires a freelance professional assassin (Eric Sykes) to do the dirty work and maintain...
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