Experienced British spy must retrieve a defecting Soviet scientist from Turkey. When a pretty female innocent bystander gets kidnapped by mistake by his enemies, he feels responsible and decides to help her as well.
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Stanley Baker | ... | John Craig | |
| Geraldine Chaplin | ... | Miriam Loman | |
| Donald Pleasence | ... | Loomis | |
| Dana Andrews | ... | Blake | |
| Sue Lloyd | ... | Joanna Benson | |
| Derren Nesbitt | ... | Andrew Royce | |
| Vladek Sheybal | ... | Aaron Kaplan | |
| Warren Mitchell | ... | Omar | |
| Cec Linder | ... | Mankowitz | |
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Howard Goorney | ... | Zimmer |
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J.G. Devlin | ... | Waiter |
| Ferdy Mayne | ... | Marcus Kaplan | |
| Clifton Jones | ... | Hetherton | |
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John Collin | ... | Asimov |
| Aharon Ipalé | ... | Gabrilovitch | |
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Experienced British spy must retrieve a defecting Soviet scientist from Turkey. When a pretty female innocent bystander gets kidnapped by mistake by his enemies, he feels responsible and decides to help her as well.
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Loomis: Blake. Good to see you. Can I get you something?
Blake: [tentatively] Could I have a dry Martini?
Loomis: [deadpan] I shouldn't think so.
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Music by Johnny Keating (as John Keating)
Lyrics written by Norman 'Hurricane' Smith
Performed by Norman 'Hurricane' Smith
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The film is an adaptation of the final novel in the quartet that James Mitchell wrote under the pseudonym James Munro, all featuring Department K's John Craig. They are: "The Man Who Sold Death" (1964), "Die Rich, Die Happy" (1965), "The Money That Money Can't Buy" (1967) and "The Innocent Bystanders" (1969). See more »Quotes
Blake: How are you, Loomis?Loomis: Blake. Good to see you. Can I get you something?
Blake: [tentatively] Could I have a dry Martini?
Loomis: [deadpan] I shouldn't think so.
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What Makes the Man?Music by Johnny Keating (as John Keating)
Lyrics written by Norman 'Hurricane' Smith
Performed by Norman 'Hurricane' Smith
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I think Stanley Baker was starting to show some of the ravages of the cancer that eventually killed him. Still as always he's tough as nails starring in Innocent Bystanders.
Baker stars as a compromised spy who spymaster Donald Pleasance feels will crack under the pressure. So he sends him out as a sort of decoy while a couple of other agents are to do the real assignment which is getting a hold of a defecting Russian scientist who has escaped from a Siberian gulag and is now in Turkey somewhere.
Of course when Baker finds out he's a British version of a Bashi- Bazook, expendable troops you put in the front line expecting them to be killed, he doesn't take it kindly and goes into business for himself. Along the way Baker acquires Geraldine Chaplin who is in the title role of the Innocent Bystander.
I'm told in the book that Innocent Bystander the lead character does have the exaggerated mustache that Baker sports. I really can't buy that since part of espionage is the ability to blend into the background.
Pleasance who is always in his films having evil intent is no different here. Dana Andrews makes an appearance here as the American spy chief who has contracted out this assignment.
As it turns out there are others who want the scientist for more than matters of geopolitics.
Fans of Stanley Baker will like Innocent Bystanders.