TY - ADVS AU - McKenzie,John AU - Axelrod,George TI - The fourth protocol PY - 1987/// CY - Great Britain PB - Rank Film Distributors KW - Spy films N1 - Title from title screen; Executive producers, Frederick Forsyth, Wafic Said, Michael Caine ; music, Lalo Schifrin ; director of photography, Phil Meheux ; editor, Graham Walker; Cast: Michael Caine, Pierce Brosnan, James Edward Ross, Ned Beatty, Joanna Cassidy, Julian Glover, Michael Gough, Ray McAnally, Ian Richardson N2 - 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 for couriers from the USSR. John Preston is the top British spy catcher, currently he is at odds with his superior cause, he doesn't lick his boots. After a recent operation 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 had an encounter with customs which left him dead. Preston then went through his things and found that he was carrying a thing that is part of an atomic bomb ER -