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starring: Michael Caine, Nigel Green, Guy Doleman, Sue Lloyd, Gordon Jacksondirected by: Sidney J. Furie
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780764005466
Format: Color, Letterboxed, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0764005464
Label: Starz / Anchor Bay
Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Starz / Anchor Bay
Release Date: October 12, 1999
Running Time: 108 minutes
Sales Rank: 19423
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Theatrical Release Date: August 02, 1965
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In the spy-crazed film world of the 1960s, Len Deighton's antihero Harry Palmer burst onto the scene as an antidote to the James Bond films. Here was a British spy who had a working-class accent and horn-rimmed glasses and above all really didn't want to be a spy in the first place. As portrayed by Michael Caine, Palmer was the perfect antithesis to Sean Connery's 007. Unlike that of his globetrotting spy cousin, Palmer's beat is cold, rainy, dreary London, where he spends his days and nights in unheated flats spying on subversives. He does charm one lady, but she's no Pussy Galore, just a civil servant he works with, sent to keep an eye on him. Eventually he's assigned to get to the bottom of the kidnapping and subsequent 'brain draining' of a nuclear physicist, all the while being reminded by his superiors that it's this or prison. Things begin to get pretty hairy for Harry. Produced by Harry Saltzman in his spare time between Bond movies, the film also features a haunting score by another Bond veteran, composer John Barry. --Kristian St. Clair
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Rating:  - "Spy High"
Maurice Micklewhite (Michael Caine) has always been one of my favorite actors. I saw this 007 Era movie when it was first released and watched it again more recently. It is a FAB movie. It has lost nothing over time and can even be more appreciated today. Caine is very magnetic as the oh so sexy but slightly nerdy instrument of espionage. A great, suspenseful movie that is effective without all the 007 gimmicks.
Rating:  - Palmer, Harry Palmer...
1965's "The Ipcress File" is an extremely well executed dramatization of Len Deighton's excellent spy novel of the same name. In one of his earlier roles, Michael Caine stars as British secret agent Harry Palmer, working class spy but smarter and tougher than he looks.
Palmer is assigned to a mysterious case in which top British scientists disappear for a few days, then reappear having been brainwashed to uselessness. The only clue is a fragment of recording tape with the word "Ipcress." ... Read More
Rating: - Pretty good... IPCRESS FILE
Michael Caine plays ex-con turned spy Harry Palmer in this very cool British spy thriller from the 1960s. His understated performance and the great and stylish directing of Sidney J. Furie really lift this movie several echelons above other films in the genre. Also, a nice score by John Barry (from 007 fame) adds to make this one of the classics of the time period. highly recommended, especially for michael caine fans.
Rating: - The Non-Glamorous, "Gourmet" Spy
"The Ipcress File," is first in a series of three movies made from Len Deighton books, produced by Harry Saltsman, directed by Sidney J. Furie, and with a sound track by John Barry, all of them apparently taking breaks from their other, more famous spy series, the James Bond 007s. As one of Michael Caine's earlier films, it undoubtedly helped make him a star. However, as most people would say, he's the anti-Bond in this series, cockney accented before it was cool, wearing glasses and ill-fitting suits, ... Read More
Rating: - Outstanding British espionage thriller
Michael Caine stars as reluctant, unregulated British secret agent Harry Palmer, a role which propelled him to stardom in "The Ipcress File". Filmed in the midst of the cold war and in competition with the popular James Bond series, this movie, the first of the Harry Palmer trilogy, has far more plausiblity.
Palmer, an ex-thief, food and music connoisseur and still a sergeant in the British army is transfered by his superior, intelligence agent Col. Ross played by Guy Doleman. His new boss ... Read More
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