The Fourth Protocol

– Plan Aurora, led by Kim Philby is a plan that breaches the top-secret Fourth Protocol and turns the ..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
6.50 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 59 Minutes
Release Year:
1987
The Fourth Protocol (1987)

Plan Aurora, led by Kim Philby 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 MI5 agent John Preston attempts to prevent it's detonation.

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Producing Country:
UK
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The Fourth Protocol (1987) - Trailer

Release Date:

28 Aug 1987

Language:

English

MPAA Content-Rating:
R – Restricted

Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian. Contains some adult material. Parents are urged to learn more about the film before taking their young children with them.

Director:

John Mackenzie

Writer:

George Axelrod (screen story), Richard Burridge (additional material), Frederick Forsyth (screenplay), Frederick Forsyth (novel)

Main Actors:

Michael Caine, Pierce Brosnan, Ned Beatty, Joanna Cassidy

Plot:

KGB agent Major Valeri Petrofsky has been reassigned at the request of the KGB Chairman for a secret mission wherein he is sent to England to establish a residence near an American military base and receive various items from couriers from the USSR. John Preston is the top British spy catcher, currently at odds with his superior because he doesn't lick his boots. After he conducts an operation without his superior's permission caused his superior some embarrassment, he is reassigned to the menial task of overseeing airports and ports. One day one the couriers Petrofsky was expecting comes off a freighter has an accident which leaves him dead. Preston is informed by the pathologist that the man is not a seaman so Preston goes through his things and finds that he was carrying something which he is told is an atomic bomb component. Preston now suspects that someone is bringing in parts for an atomic bomb, his superior doesn't want to let Preston be proven right so he doesn't authorize further action and suspends Preston. But a man who works with intelligence approaches Preston saying he might be right because a sleeper transmitter went active twice once probably to alert Moscow that he is in place and the second sent after the man's death probably to inform that the component he was delivering wasn't received. So the man offers to let Preston find the man who is bringing in the bomb. And back in the USSR, Petrofsky's boss is so disgruntled that Petrofsky and so much of his department's resources are being taken by the Chairman for his op, that he calls his old friend, the Vice-Chairman of the KGB, to find out what's going on because he believes that the Chairman wouldn't be able to do any of these things without his friend's input. But his friend is just as incredulous as he is. So he tries to find out what the Chairman is up to.

Awards:

1 nomination.

Production:

Lorimar Home Video

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
6.5/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
72%
Metacritic:
64%