Ipcress File, The (1965)

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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)

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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