Rent Assassin / Hunted (1973)
3.2 of 5 from 55 ratings
2h 4min
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- Synopsis:
- In the early 1970s, three ambitious friends - Peter Crane, Michael Sloan and Nigel Hodgson - combined the first letters of each of their names and set up the Pemini Organisation, a young and vital independent British film production company. Active between 1972 and 1974, Pemini produced one mid-length film, 'Hunted (1972)', a high-suspense thriller starring Edward Woodward and June Ritchie, and two feature films: 'Assassin (1973)', a grimly realistic spy film starring Ian Hendry, Edward Judd, Frank Windsor, Ray Brooks and Mike Pratt...
- Actors:
- Ian Hendry, Edward Judd, Frank Windsor, Ray Brooks, Mike Pratt, Verna Harvey, Caroline John, Alison Frazer, Frank Duncan, Andrew Lodge, Lee Peters, Paul Whitsun-Jones, Edward Phillips, Patrick Monckton, Drew Wood, David Rowlands, Molly Weir, Peter Hawkins, Michael Ensign, Celia Imrie
- Directors:
- Peter Crane
- Producers:
- Peter Crane, David M. Jackson, Michael Sloan
- Writers:
- Michael Sloan
- Aka:
- The Pemini Organisation
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama, Romance, Thrillers
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 30/05/2022
- Run Time:
- 124 minutes
- Languages:
- English LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.75:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- (0) All
- Bonus:
- Audio commentaries on Hunted and Assassin with Pemini co-founder and director Peter Crane and film historian Sam Dunn (2022)
- Organising Principles (2022, 32 mins): Crane remembers the origins of Pemini and his subsequent work in Hollywood
- An Amazing Time (2022, 7 mins): Pemini co-founder and writer Michael Sloan looks back at his three early films
- Good Chemistry (2022, 29 mins): Pemini co-founder Nigel Hodgson revisits an exciting chapter in his life
- A Group of Friends (2022, 14 mins): June Ritchie, star of Hunted, recalls her time with Pemini
- Scoring with Gerry (2022, 13 mins): the veteran Soho musician Graham Dee remembers his work with Gerry Shury on the compositions for In Search of Lebanon and Hunted
- The Life of My Memories (2022, 22 mins): assistant director Martyn Chillmaid recounts his adventures on the three Pemini films
- Assassin's Creed (2022, 22 mins): Ian Hendry biographer Gabriel Hershman explores the life and career of the troubled actor
- Hunted': The Lost Prologue (2022, 10 mins): video essay, narrated by Crane, reconstructing and reappraising scenes shot for the missing US television version of Hunted
- Restoring Hunted' and 'Assassin' (2022, 5 mins)
- Image galleries: extensive behind-the-scenes, promotional and publicity materials from the Pemini archives
- Assassin script gallery: complete shooting screenplay
- World premieres on Blu-ray
- Disc 1:
- This disc includes the following Films:
- Hunted
- Assassin
- Special Features - Disc 2:
- This disc includes the following Film:
- Moments
- Special Features
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Reviews (1) of Assassin / Hunted
Enigmatic - Assassin / Hunted review by sb
Having been blown away by Hunted earlier in the week - a follow up screening of Peter Cranes full lenth debut - and a much chillier and enigmatic work it as well.
Hendry plays an un-named assassin who is a Callan-esque hitman employed by some shadowy Govt department that is given jobs even MI5 won't touch.
The latest target is an Air Ministry official Stacey (Windsor) who is to best man at a colleagues wedding and the hit is planned for then.
Its never explained why he is a target - Control (Judd) asks Hendry if he wants to know - would it make a difference he snaps back.
Control also hires two other figures - one older and austere and the other young and arrogant whose role seems to shadow Hendry but like a lot of the film this is never made clear.
We also see previous hits but Crane edits it like Boorman in Point Blank so you are never sure if what is happening in now or before.
There is a brief dalliance with a sad lonely girl but as soon as she suggests to see him again - its clothes on and out the door - this is a man without any personal encumberances.
Things get even more complicated when its revealed the wrong target has been selected so the race is on to stop the hit regardless of the cost.
Hendry is excellent in the role - a man of few words but much violence and it used the icy North London locations to great effect.
As mentioned before Crane spent years in US TV - he seemed to direct entire seasons of Murder She Wrote - a real waste of a talent - 4/5
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