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    Innocent Bystanders (1972)

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    Featuring Stanely Baker’s last big-screen role, Innocent Bystanders looks and feels like a hard-boiled low-rent James Bond.

    Proof that Baker could still do tough guys well, his character John Craig is a traumatised spy long past his peak, who is assigned one last job by his reptilian boss, Loomis (Donald Pleasence), to find a Soviet scientist wanted by the American secret services and the KGB.

    His mission to locate the defecting Russian sees him travel to Turkey via New York. In the process, he discovers that although he has lost his taste for killing, he hasn’t lost his talent for it.

    Halfway through the film, Warren Mitchell enters as a Turkish hotel owner called Omar who has learnt English from Australians he met during the war. He is a delight and walks off with this secret agent caper which had been flagging until then.

    John Craig
    Stanley Baker
    Miriam Loman
    Geraldine Chaplin
    Loomis
    Donald Pleasence
    Blake
    Dana Andrews
    Joanna Benson
    Sue Lloyd
    Royce
    Derren Nesbitt
    Aaron Kaplan
    Vladek Sheybal
    Omar
    Warren Mitchell
    Marcus Kaplan
    Ferdy Mayne
    Asimov
    John Collin

    Director
    Peter Collinson

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