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.
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 |
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