Released into UK cinemas March 20, 1987, The Fourth Protocol is a British cold war thriller starring Michael Caine. He's an MI5 agent who is battling the MI5 bureaucracy as much as he is the KGB who are working on assembling a nuclear weapon on home soil. It's Michael Caine vs a pre-Bond Pierce Brosnan, who is cast here as a KGB agent posing as a visiting American. It's great stuff with an over-supply of stiff British upper-lips.

Dan Barrett and Simon Foster take a look at the movie, which neither of them had seen until now. It is part of their deep dive into the films of 1987. Was it, in fact, the Best Movie Year?