The Assassination Attack (1987)

Movie
German title	The assassination attempt
Original title	Assassination
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1987
length	88 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Peter R. Hunt
script	Richard Sale
production	Pancho Kohner
music	Valentine McCallum , Robert O. Ragland
camera	Hanania Baer
cut	James Heckert
occupation
Charles Bronson : Jay Killian Jill Ireland : First Lady Lara Royce Craig Stephen Elliott : Fitzroy Jan Gan Boyd : Charlotte Chang Randy Brooks : Tyler Loudermilk Erik Stern : Eddie Bracken Michael Ansara : Senator Hector Bunsen James Staley: Briggs Kathryn Leigh Scott : Polly Sims Jim McMullan : The Zipper William Prince : HH Royce Charles Howerton : President Calvin Craig Chris Alcaide : Chief Justice

The assassination (original title: Assassination ) is an American action film from 1987 . Charles Bronson and his then-wife Jill Ireland played the leading roles. The German theatrical release was on April 27, 1989.

action

Calvin Craig was recently elected US President. The bodyguard Jay Killion gets the job after a convalescence leave to protect the new first lady Lara Royce Craig, although he would be entitled to be the bodyguard of the newly elected president due to his age and experience. Mrs. Craig is not only self-confident but also headstrong and makes life difficult for the security guards with her behavior. When attacks are carried out on them, Killion and Lara Craig have to come to terms. She tells him that she serves as her husband's alibi wife, since he could only become president as a married man. Some time after the election, she wanted to part with him. Killion realizes that a divorced president has no chance of re-election, but a widowed one does. After the joint escape from the contract killers, he can put the chief of staff of the White House as the author of the attacks.

Reviews

"A technically inadequate action thriller without humor and tension that freezes in a listless routine."

- Lexicon of international film

background

• The film was shot in California and at the White House .
• The assassination attempt was the second and last collaboration between Charles Bronson and director Peter R. Hunt after A Man Becomes a Beast . It was also the final directorial work by Hunt and the last of a total of 16 films in which Bronson and his wife Jill Ireland occurred.

Web links

• The assassination in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The assassination attempt at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
• The assassination attempt in the online film database
• The assassination attempt in the German synchronous files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The assassination attempt. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed June 6, 2017 .  
2. ↑ Filming Locations
3. ↑ ^{a b} Trivia