don (Marlon Brando) leads to retaliation and further assassinations among Mafia families The Mechanic – 1972 film by Michael Winner about a hitman (Charles Bronson) and his protégé (Jan-Michael Vincent) Il delitto Matteotti – 1973 Italian film by Florestano Vancini about the assassination of Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti (Franco Nero) in 1924 by the Ceka of Prime Minister Mussolini, who maintains the support of King Victor Emmanuel and strengthens his dictatorship The Day of the Jackal – 1973 film adaptation by Fred Zinnemann of the novel by Frederick Forsyth, where the assassin of Patrice Lumumba and Rafael Trujillo is assigned to kill Charles de Gaulle Executive Action – 1973 film by David Miller details a presumed conspiracy to assassinate John F. Kennedy, based on a 1966 bestseller by Mark Lane and subsequent 1967 documentary by Emile de Antonio Love and Anarchy – 1973 Italian film by Lina Wertmüller about a 1930s anarchist (Giancarlo Giannini) who prepares to assassinate Mussolini over the murder of a friend The Day of the Dolphin – 1973 science fiction film by Mike Nichols in which talking bottlenose dolphins are used in a plot to mine the U.S. President's yacht Sleeper – Hugo-winning 1973 science fiction comedy by Woody Allen, set in the year 2173, when rebels have killed a dictator, and a defrosted health food store owner from 1973 (Allen) is sent to assassinate the dictator's only surviving part, his nose, before it can be cloned Theatre of Blood – 1973 film by Douglas Hickox in which an overacting Shakespearean actor (Vincent Price) assassinates his critics in the manner of Shakespeare's most grotesque murder scenes Scorpio – 1973 film by Michael Winner about a French assassin (Alain Delon) engaged by the CIA The Werewolf of Washington – 1973 horror satire by Milton Moses Ginsberg raises the question whether party loyalty is enough to protect the U.S. President when he hires a werewolf (Dean Stockwell) as his press secretary Live and Let Die – 1973 film by Guy Hamilton that opens with the assassinations of several British agents on the orders of Dr. Kananga (Yaphet Kotto), ruler of the fictional country of San Monique, later killed by James Bond (Roger Moore) – the first time 007 is shown assassinating the leader of a country Fall of Eagles – 1974 BBC miniseries by Bill Hays, David Cunliffe, et al. includes the assassinations of Vyacheslav von Plehve (†