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The Ipcress File (1965)
Also Known As:
Len Deighton's The Ipcress File
Directed by
Sidney J. Furie
Writing credits
Len Deighton (novel)
Bill Canaway (screenplay)
Plot description:
Michael Caine made his first appearance as novelist Len Deighton's bespectacled British-spy Harry Palmer in The Ipcress File. Palmer has no real love of espionage, but he doesn't really know any other life. With studied insolence, he takes on the case of locating missing doctor Radcliffe (Aubrey Richards), who has in his possession a valuable file that would prove injurious to the Free World should it fall in the wrong hands. The government also fears that Radcliffe will be brainwashed by the enemy, as has happened to two previous British scientists. While Palmer is off doing everyone else's dirty work, his superior, Nigel Green, is making a deal with duplicitous information "broker" Frank Gatliff to win Radcliffe's release. The price for this would seem to be Palmer, who is captured by the enemy and subjected to a grueling brainwashing session. Palmer escapes, whereupon he confronts a traitor in his midst in the climactic exchange of gunfire. Advertised as "The Thinking Man's Goldfinger, The Ipcress File offered a far more realistic view of the morally ambivalent world of espionage than did the like-vintage James Bond films. [Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide]Cast:
 | Michael Caine | .... | Harry Palmer |
 | Nigel Green | .... | Major Dalby |
| Guy Doleman | .... | Colonel Ross |
| Sue Lloyd | .... | Jean Courtney |
| Gordon Jackson | .... | Carswell |
| Aubrey Richards | .... | Dr. Radcliffe |
| Frank Gatliff | .... | Bluejay |
| Thomas Baptiste | .... | Barney |
| Oliver MacGreevy | .... | Housemartin |
| Freda Bamford | .... | Alice |
| Pauline Winter | .... | Charlady |
| Anthony Blackshaw | .... | Edwards |
| Barry Raymond | .... | Gray |
| David Glover | .... | Chilcott-Oakes |
| Stanley Meadows | .... | Inspector Keightley |
| Peter Ashmore | .... | Sir Robert |
| Michael Murray | .... | Raid Inspector |
| Anthony Baird | .... | Raid Sergeant |
| Tony Caunter | .... | O.N.I. man |
| Charles Rea | .... | Taylor |
| Ric Hutton | .... | Records Officer |
| Douglas Blackwell | .... | Murray |
| Richard Burrell | .... | Operator |
| Glynn Edwards | .... | Police Station Sergeant |
| Zsolt Vadaszffy | .... | Prison Doctor |
| Josef Behrmann | .... | Prison Guard |
| Max Faulkner | .... | Prison Guard |
| Paul Chapman | .... | Prison Guard (as Paul S. Chapman) |
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