The Liquidator

Self-interested intelligence man Mostyn (Trevor Howard) has hunted down Boysie Oakes (Rod Taylor), whom he wrongly believes to be a skilled assassin, at the funeral for his partner in a failed pet bird business (Jo Rowbottom as his assistant), to offer a lucrative gig, in The Liquidator, 1966, from the first novel in the series by John Gardner.

The prologue, liberation of Paris to director Jack Cardiff shooting black & white, as tanker Rod Taylor meets undercover intel officer Trevor Howard, in The Liquidator, 1966, from the first of John Gardner's "Boysie Oakes" novels.

Intelligence officer Mostyn (Trevor Howard) arrives at the Whitehall office of "The Chief" (Wilfrid Hyde-White), they commiserate over another intelligence scandal and consider an outrageous solution, early in director Jack Cardiff's The Liquidator, 1966.

New agent-assassin and committed coward Boysie Oakes (Rod Taylor) thinks he's won a date with the boss's aide Iris (Jill St. John), then meets with Griffen (Eric Sykes), whom he's seretly hiring to do his dirty work, in The Liquidator, 1966, directed by Jack Cardiff from the John Gardner novel.

A killer-for-hire gets mixed up with a plot to assassinate England's Prince Phillip in The Liquidator (1966).