Innocent Bystanders

1972

Innocent Bystanders is a 1972 spy thriller directed by Peter Collinson that was filmed in Spain and Turkey. It stars Stanley Baker and Geraldine Chaplin.[1] 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.[2]

John Craig (Baker) is an aging British secret agent who is tasked with returning a defector, the Russian scientist Kaplan (Sheybal) 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.[3]

Roger Greenspun was dissatisfied with what he termed the "general inconsequence" that the script evokes. However, Greenspun expressed that Chaplin's performance was "so reticent and so appealing as to constitute a small personal triumph. She is granted the film's only moments of quiet intelligence. She fills these moments with delicate intimacy that contrasts with everything else in the film that really does suggest a reservoir of feeling to oppose the lives around her that are wasted in mere action."[3] Time magazine noted the standout performances of Donald Pleasence as the Head of British Intelligence and Vladek Sheybal as a minor agent.

Quelle: Wikipedia(englisch)
Kinostart:23.07.1972 in Schweden
12.10.1972 in Vereinigtes Königreich
05.01.1973 in Irland
24.01.1973 in New York City
14.03.1973 in Dänemark
16.03.1973 in Madrid
13.04.1973 in Finnland
15.06.1973 in Italien
30.08.1973 in Frankreich
September 1973 in Türkei
16.01.1974 in Deutschland
13.04.1974 in Japan
25.05.1976 in Portugal
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Genre:Agentenfilm
Herstellungsland:Vereinigtes Königreich
Originalsprache:Englisch
Farbe:Farbe
IMDB: 337
Verleih:Paramount Pictures
Regie:Peter Collinson
Drehbuch:James Mitchell
Musik:Johnny Keating
Darsteller:Stanley Baker
Geraldine Chaplin
Donald Pleasence
Dana Andrews
Derren Nesbitt
Sue Lloyd
Vladek Sheybal
Warren Mitchell
Cec Linder
Howard Goorney
J. G. Devlin
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