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Fourth Protocol (The)
- Director: John Mackenzie
- Writer: George Axelrod; Richard Burridge
- Producer: Timothy Burrill; Michael Caine
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It's just a bloody good yarn.
Entertaining, no gimmicks - just plain, good old-fashioned fun.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
KGB agent Major Valeri Petrofsky has been reassigned at the request of the KGB Chairman for a secret mission wherein he is sent to England to establish a residence near an American military base and receive various items from couriers from the USSR. John Preston is the top British spy catcher, currently at odds with his superior because he doesn't lick his boots. After he conducts an operation without his superior's permission caused his superior some embarrassment, he is reassigned to the menial task of overseeing airports and ports. One day one the couriers Petrofsky was expecting comes off a freighter has an accident which leaves him dead. Preston is informed by the pathologist that the man is not a seaman so Preston goes through his things and finds that he was carrying something which he is told is an atomic bomb component.
Cast & Characters
Michael Caine as John Preston;
Pierce Brosnan as Valeri Petrofsky / James Edward Ross;
Ned Beatty as Borisov / Pavel Petrovic;
Joanna Cassidy as Irina Vassilievna;
Julian Glover as Brian Harcourt-Smith;
Michael Gough as Sir Bernard Hemmings;
Ray McAnally as General Karpov;
Ian Richardson as Sir Nigel Irvine;
Anton Rodgers as George Berenson;
Caroline Blakiston as Angela Berenson;
Joseph Brady as Carmichael;
Betsy Brantley as Eileen McWhirter;
Sean Chapman as Captain Lyndhurst;
Matt Frewer as Tom McWhirter;
Jerry Harte as Professor Krilov