The Fourth Protocol

“If the Fourth Protocol is ever breached, there would be no warning, just a nuclear explosion from a bedsitter... The unthinkable has just begun.”

6.3(194)19871h 59m

ActionThriller

Led by Kim Philby, Plan Aurora is a plan that breaches the top-secret Fourth Protocol and turns the fears that shaped it into a living nightmare. A crack Soviet agent, placed under cover in a quiet English country town, begins to assemble a nuclear bomb, whilst an MI5 agent attempts to prevent its detonation.

Director

John Mackenzie

Budget

$6.0M

Revenue

$12.4M

Cast

Michael Caine

John Preston

Pierce Brosnan

Valeri Petrofsky / James Edward Ross

Ned Beatty

Borisov

Joanna Cassidy

Irina Vassilievna

Julian Glover

Brian Harcourt-Smith

Michael Gough

Sir Bernard Hemmings

Ray McAnally

General Karpov

Ian Richardson

Sir Nigel Irvine

Anton Rodgers

George Berenson

Caroline Blakiston

Angela Berenson

Betsy Brantley

Eileen McWirther

Matt Frewer

Tom

Reviews

1 review

Geronimo1967

3y ago

7.0

There is something plausible abut Michael Caine's performance here. He ("Preston") is the antithesis of Sir Alec Guinness's "George Smiley" - a hard nosed, blunt spy catcher who hates toeing the line with his bosses. After a bit of clandestine activity, he is on his way out and is sidelined until a seemingly straightforward fatal accident gets his alarm bells ringing. Meantime, KGB agent "Petrofsk...