The Fourth Protocol (1987)

Director
John Mackenzie

Main cast
Michael Caine; Pierce Brosnan; Ray McAnally; Ned Beatty; Joanna Cassidy

Genres
Action, Drama, Thriller

Description
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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