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Innocent Bystanders is a British film of genre Thriller directed by Peter Collinson released in USA on 24 january 1973 with Stanley Baker
Innocent Bystanders (1972)
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Add to a movie listInnocent Bystanders is a 1972 spy thriller directed by Peter Collinson that was filmed in Spain and Turkey. It stars Stanley Baker and Geraldine Chaplin. The screenplay was written by James Mitchell based on his novel The Innocent Bystanders (1969). Mitchell had previously written several John Craig spy thrillers under the name James Munro.
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John Craig (Baker) is an aging British secret agent who is tasked with returning a defector, the Russian scientist Kaplan (Mayne) who has foregone science for a modest life as a goatherd in Turkey. Craig faces opposition from his boss, his younger replacements, an American secret agent, a Turkish hotel keeper, and an organization of Russian Jews hostile to Kaplan. Craig's mission is complicated by Miriam (Chaplin), an innocent bystander who is taken hostage.Actors
Stanley Baker
(John Craig)
Geraldine Chaplin
(Miriam Loman)
Donald Pleasence
(Loomis)
Dana Andrews
(Blake)
Sue Lloyd
(Joanna Benson)
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