INNOCENT BYSTANDERS (1972) ¢ ¢ ¢
D: Peter Collinson
Stanley Baker, Geraldine Chaplin, Donald Pleasence,
Dana Andrews, Sue Lloyd, Derren Nesbitt
A transparent James Bond knockoff starring Stanley Baker as a veteran agent who takes on a final assignment to prove he still belongs in the game. Geraldine Chaplin plays an American woman he kidnaps along the way, an "innocent bystander" who may know more than she's letting on. This hasn't got the flippancy or the slick production values you associate with the Bond films, but there are car chases, fistfights and gunplay enough to keep things moving along, and Baker's resemblance to Sean Connery, under the circumstances, can't be accidental.
