revolt and assassinate their headmaster, inspired by the 1968 Paris riots and the 1605 Gunpowder Plot Nobody Runs Forever (a.k.a. The High Commissioner) – 1968 film by Ralph Thomas in which an Australian policeman (Rod Taylor) arrives in London and prevents the assassination of the Australian High Commissioner (Christopher Plummer) Che! – 1969 film by Richard Fleischer in which Argentine revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara (Omar Sharif) meets his death in Bolivia in 1967 The Royal Hunt of the Sun – 1969 film by Irving Lerner, based on the play by Peter Shaffer, in which Inca Emperor Atahualpa (Christopher Plummer) meets his end in 1533 at the hands of Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro (Robert Shaw) The Price of Power – 1969 spaghetti Western by Tonino Valerii depicting the assassination of President Garfield (Van Johnson) by a disappointed office seeker in 1881, fictionalized in the manner of the 1963 Kennedy assassination Z – Oscar-winning 1969 Algerian film by Costa-Gavras in which a magistrate struggles to prosecute the assassins of an opposition politician (Yves Montand), based on the 1963 murder of Greek MP Gregoris Lambrakis Oikeamieliset – 1969 Finnish television film by Veikko Kerttula about the assassin (Esko Salminen) of Russian Grand Duke Sergei in 1905, based on the play Les Justes by Nobel laureate Albert Camus Crossplot – 1969 film by Alvin Rakoff where an executive (Roger Moore) learns of a plot to assassinate a visiting African leader in London The Assassination Bureau – 1969 romp by Basil Dearden, set in Edwardian Europe, in which a journalist (Diana Rigg) hires an assassination agency to kill the head of the agency itself (Oliver Reed), inspired by the much more serious novel by Jack London Burn! – 1969 film by Gillo Pontecorvo in which the revolutionary activities of a British agent (Marlon Brando) on a Portuguese colonial island lead to assassination 1970s 1970–1974 Julius Caesar – 1970 film by Stuart Burge about the assassination of Julius Caesar (John Gielgud) in the Roman Senate on the Ides of March, 44 BC, adapted from Shakespeare's tragedy Little Big Man – 1970 revisionist Western by Arthur Penn, about a settler raised by Cheyenne Indians (Dustin Hoffman), includes the assassination of lawman Wild Bill Hickok in 1876 Consigna: matar al comandante en jefe (Assignment: Killing the Commander in Chief) – 1970 Spanish-Italian film by José Luis Merino where an attack on German Gen. Rommel (Piero Lulli) fails, but