Day of the Assassin (Spanish: El día de los asesinos) is a 1979 American-Spanish-Mexican action film directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith, who called it "a trainwreck of a movie.
According to Trenchard-Smith, the original director was to be Leslie Martinson, who had just made Missile X – Geheimauftrag Neutronenbombe for producer Ika Panajotovic.
[1] Trenchard-Smith says Glenn Ford was to be paid $100,000 for two days' work and that his friend, Taylor Lacher, would be given a role.
[1] Trenchard-Smith was fired during the sixth and last week of filming after refusing to shoot a sequence in which Chuck Connors' character shoots and kills several guards while committing a robbery, as he was concerned that such a scene would prevent audiences from rooting for his character.
I like those types of competing experts movies, it’s a good slumming cast and there’s just kind of a cool vibe to it.