page_title: List of assassinations in fiction
section_title: 1960s
hierarchical_section_title: List of assassinations in fiction / Films / 1960s
context_page_description: Assassinations have formed a major plot element in various works of fiction. Passing mentions are omitted.
  Assassination can be regarded as the murder of a prominent person for a motive which is broadly public and political rather than merely personal or financial.
  Assassinations in fiction have attracted scholarly attention. In Assassinations and Murder in Modern Italy: Transformations in Society and Culture, as well as analyzing Italian assassinations in their historical and cultural contexts, Stephen Gundle and Lucia Rinaldi explore the films, plays, other works of fiction, and art that the act of assassination has inspired. Nick Cullather has discussed "The Movie Version" of John F. Kennedy's assassination.
  This list prefers to highlight less familiar cultural artifacts, while trying not to itemize every Ian Fleming or Agatha Christie title, or every Mafia film. The historical–historically based or historically inspired–takes precedence over the purely fictional and sensational.
context_section_description: Esther and the King — 1960 film by Raoul Walsh and Mario Bava about Persian Queen Esther and her husband King Ahasuerus, based on the Book of Esther
  Khovanshchina — 1960 Soviet film by Vera Stroyeva, starring Mark Reizen, based on Mussorgsky's opera
  Murder, Inc. — 1960 film by Stuart Rosenberg about the Murder, Inc. group of professional hitmen, starring Stuart Whitman
  The Gleiwitz Case — 1961 East German film by Gerhard Klein in which Nazis plan to murder a concentration camp inmate dressed in Polish uniform as a pretext to invade Poland, based on the 1939 Gleiwitz incident
  Vanina Vanini — 1961 Italian film by Roberto Rossellini, set in 1824 during the Risorgimento, when a Carbonari revolutionary (Laurent Terzieff) plans to assassinate a traitor to the secret society, loosely based on the novella by Stendhal which does not involve assassination
  Blast of Silence — 1961 film by Allen Baron where a hitman (Baron) stalks a mob lord during Christmas
  Becket oder Die Ehre Gottes — 1962 West German television film by Rainer Wolffhardt about the assassination of Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket (Heinz Baumann) in 1170, based on the play by Anouilh
  Shinobi no Mono (a.k.a. Band of Assassins) — 1962 Japanese film by Satsuo Yamamoto in which two ninjas vie to assassinate warlord Oda Nobunaga in the 1570s
  Chushingura: Hana no Maki, Yuki no Maki — 1962 Japanese film by Hiroshi Inagaki about the Forty-seven Ronin, a group of samurai who plotted to avenge their lord's death in 1701, starring Toshirō Mifune
  The Manchurian Candidate — 1962 film by John Frankenheimer, adapted from the novel by Richard Condon, in which a U.S. Korean War P.O.W. (Laurence Harvey) is brainwashed into assassinating a Presidential candidate, thus allowing a Communist agent to become President
  Dr. No — 1962 thriller by Terence Young about the murder of British agents in Jamaica, and the investigation by an agent, James Bond (Sean Connery), who is "licensed to kill"
  Cleopatra — 1963 film by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, about the Egyptian queen (Elizabeth Taylor), includes the assassinations of several historical figures, Pompey, Pothinus, Julius Caesar, Caesarion and, unhistorically, Egyptian ambassador Sosigenes
  Nine Hours to Rama — 1963 film by Mark Robson about Mahatma Gandhi and his assassin (Horst Buchholz)
  The Ugly American — 1963 film by George Englund, starring Marlon Brando, in which a Southeast Asian nationalist revolutionary is assassinated by a Communist double agent
  The Little Soldier — 1963 French film by Jean-Luc Godard about an agent for French Intelligence who is assigned to kill a sympathizer of the Algerian FLN
  From Russia with Love — 1963 film by Terence Young in which James Bond and an ally are targeted for assassination by a SPECTRE agent
  Becket — 1964 film by Peter Glenville about the assassination of Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket (Richard Burton) in 1170, based on the play by Anouilh
  Kustaa III — 1964 Finnish television film by Mirjam Himberg about the 1792 shooting of Swedish King Gustav III (Lasse Pöysti) by a disgruntled officer (Uolevi Vahteristo) at a masquerade ball
  Atentát — 1964 Czechoslovakian film by Jiří Sequens about the assassination of Nazi Reinhard Heydrich by Czech commandos in 1942
  The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald — 1964 film by Larry Buchanan in which the accused assassin (Charles Mazyrack) of US President Kennedy is not himself assassinated but instead receives a fair trial in Dallas
  The Fall of the Roman Empire — 1964 film by Anthony Mann about the rumoured assassination of Marcus Aurelius (Alec Guinness) in AD 180 and the actual one of Commodus (Christopher Plummer) in 192
  Behold a Pale Horse — 1964 film by Fred Zinnemann about a Spanish Civil War grudge between an exiled guerrilla (Gregory Peck) and a policeman (Anthony Quinn)
  De l'assassinat considéré comme un des beaux-arts (Assassination Considered as One of the Fine Arts) — 1964 French film by Maurice Boutel lists a role for a "President of Gentlemen Amateurs" (Anthony Stuart)
  Shaheed — 1965 Indian (Hindi) film by S. Ram Sharma about Indian nationalist Bhagat
caption: Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat, 1793
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