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