The Ipcress File (1965)
Directed by Sidney J. Furie
Sly and dry intelligence agent Harry Palmer is tasked with investigating British Intelligence security, and is soon enmeshed in a world of double-dealing, kidnap and murder when he finds a traitor operating at the heart of the secret service.
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And is it a sly nod to Michael Caine’s famous 1960s spook Harry Palmer from THE IPCRESS FILE that Fassbender wears dark-rimmed glasses here?
…and, for die-hard spy film fanatics, Harry Palmer, played by Michael Caine in five films throughout the 1960s and ’90s.
…evoking memories of Michael Caine in The Ipcress File…
Fans of The Ipcress File and le Carré's The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, rejoice.
Colin Firth plays Harry Hart, a well-tailored superspy in the vein of The Avengers (the British one, don't you know) or The Ipcress File.
Seeing Michael Caine (“The Ipcress File,” anyone?) is a nice reminder of the era.
Not even three years out from Dr. No , Bond producer Harry Saltzman released The Ipcress File , the first of several Len Deighton novel adaptations starring Michael Caine as Harry Palmer, a sort-of downmarket, unglamorous James Bond.
Their leader, Arthur, is played by Michael Caine -- an in joke, perhaps, since Caine helped invent the ring's square-cool dress code in 1965's "The Ipcress File."
Michael Caine, the star of The Ipcress File and a couple of other Len Deighton Harry Palmer adaptations, plays the role of Arthur, Kingsman's version of "M."
Basically, the film is a throwback to the 60s anti-Bond spy thriller (a la The Ipcress File), except here the genre's annihilating irony has been replaced by Pollack's liberal piousness.