Photos Top cast Edit. Guy Doleman Colonel H. Ross as Colonel H. Aubrey Richards Dr. Radcliffe as Dr. Frank Gatliff Bluejay as Bluejay. Thomas Baptiste Barney as Barney. Oliver MacGreevy Housemartin as Housemartin. Freda Bamford Alice as Alice. Pauline Winter Charlady as Charlady. Anthony Blackshaw Edwards as Edwards. Barry Raymond Gray as Gray. Sidney J. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Several leading Western scientists have been kidnapped only to reappear a fews days later.
Unfortunately, each scientist has been brainwashed and is now completely useless. The British send Agent Harry Palmer to investigate. Palmer is surprised to be selected for such a mission considering his past and believes he has been chosen because he is expendable. The spy story of the century Did you know Edit. Trivia Harry Palmer is depicted as an accomplished cook, but when you see Palmer skillfully break a couple of eggs, the hands in the close-up belong to Len Deighton , author of the book on which this movie was based.
Deighton was an accomplished cook and also wrote a comic strip about cooking for The Observer. The walls of Palmer's kitchen are full of these strips. Goofs When Harry makes his coffee in a French press during the opening credits, he pours in the hot water and immediately pushes the plunger without waiting the standard three or four minutes.
His coffee would be so weak that he couldn't possibly wake up. Connections Featured in V. User reviews Review. Michael Caine is my favourite movie star and, as Harry Palmer, he is my favourite movie hero. Back in the late '90s when I began working for the civil service and inexplicably found that I was indeed required to sign the Official Secrets Act, my wavy haired, bespectacled figure would often be found stalking the labyrinthine, anonymous corridors of the department I worked in; daydreaming that I was in fact Palmer, working for the WOOC P and not the….
A significant part of this British spy thriller seems to take for granted the idea that a good spy is one who never experiences an emotion. Extremely wry jokes are permitted, especially if they're about the complete humorlessness of people in the intelligence game, but actual facial expressions are apparently just distractions in the spy game. Eventually, this dour procedural turns into The Parallax View , complete with brainwashing booth and a ton of unanswered questions, and when Michael Caine's central up-and-coming agent actually has to fight for his life and sanity, the film gets pretty compelling.
But the leadup, featuring the world's grimmest people competing to see who can be most joyless, is pretty sleepy. This film also features maybe the most rote, passionless, uninteresting kiss I've ever seen in a movie, and that's really saying something. This film needed some human characters. I dare not say that I liked The Ipcress File more than your average Bond flick, but I found seeing Michael Caine making himself a coffee or preparing dinner to be strangely relaxing.
Maybe the movie itself is quite relaxing, like reading a classic spy novel on a Sunday afternoon. No high-tech gadgets, car chases or explosions but a flawed, insolent low-ranking spy tasked to uncover a ploy that aims to brainwash British scientists, while at the same dealing with the day-to-day struggles of a bureaucratic organization and, how surprising in a spy movie, a possible….
This movie went into production in , deliberately offering a very fashionable alternative to the early James Bond films. Letterboxd is an independent service created by a small team, and we rely mostly on the support of our members to maintain our site and apps. Where to watch Trailer. Furie Synopsis The spy story of the century. Director Sidney J. Peter R. Otto Heller. Ken Adam. Peter Murton. In contrast to Bond's public school background and playboy lifestyle, Palmer is a cockney who lives in a Notting Hill flat and has to put up with red tape and inter-departmental rivalries.
When appointed to a new post, he immediately asks whether he will get a pay rise by contrast, Bond's salary is hardly mentioned and he only goes to the best hotels, often using the presidential suite. The action is set entirely in "a gritty, gloomy, decidedly non-swinging" London with humdrum locations.
In this respect, it is a tribute to the complexity and flexibility of the mind of Harry Saltzman, who was an acknowledged master of proposing "bigger and more extravagant ideas" for Bond films according to the MGM Home Entertainment documentary Harry Saltzman: Showman. Five prominent members of the production team — producer Harry Saltzman, executive producer Charles Kasher who also produced the sequel Funeral In Berlin , film editor Peter R.
Harry Saltzman gave Jimmy Sangster a copy of the novel to read. Sangster enjoyed the book and was eager to adapt the novel, and suggested Michael Caine play the role and Sidney J. Furie direct. However, Saltzman would not commit to the timeframe that Sangster insisted upon. The film was shot in Techniscope, the 2 perf widescreen format introduced by Technicolor Italia in Techniscope allowed a greater depth of field facilitated by the use of lenses with shorter focal lengths than theanamorphic widescreen processes.
This allowed cinematographer Otto Heller to construct images in deep focus, shooting behind objects and allowing both the objects in the foreground and the action taking place in the background to be in focus. The complex electronic sound effect of the brain-washing process was conceived by sound engineer Norman Wanstall and created by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
The protagonist of Deighton's novel was nameless, but in Chapter 5 he remarks, "My name isn't Harry, but in this business it's hard to remember whether it ever had been.
Newspaper cuttings shown in Palmer's kitchen are actually cookery articles written for The Observer by Deighton, an accomplished cook and cookery writer. When the film premiered at the Leicester Square Theatre in London on 18 March , the film critic for The Times had mixed feelings about it. While enjoying the first part of the film, and generally praising Michael Caine, the critic found the second half bewildering to the extent that the characters "cease to be pleasantly mystifying and become just irritatingly obscure.
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