The Ipcress File (film)
The Ipcress File is a 1965 film adaptation of Len Deighton's novel the The IPCRESS File.
Writers Bill Canaway and James Doran received a 1966 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Foreign Film Screenplay.
The film won the Bafta for Best
British Film and Ken Adam won the Bafta for 'Best British Art Direction, Colour'.
The
protagonist of Deighton's novel was nameless, but the film gives him the name
"Harry Palmer". The name was partly inspired by a line from Chapter
5 of the novel: "my name isn't Harry, but in this business it's hard to remember
whether it ever had been".
Plot outline
A number of leading
Western scientists have been kidnapped only to reappear a few days later. Unfortunately,
each scientist has been brain washed and is now completely useless.
Harry Palmer is a sergeant in the British Army who was court-martialed for running a black market ring in Berlin. He was given the choice of either going to prison or becoming a spy and chose the latter. Assigned to the case, Palmer soon finds himself getting involved in inter-departmental rivalry and at odds with the Americans. He soon comes to realise that he has been chosen because he is expendable.
During
the investigation a tape turns up with the word 'Ipcress' written on it. Despite
his truculence Palmer does get results, and he is soon in contact with the man
who could be behind the operation.
In the kitchen when Palmer (Michael Caine) cooks for Courtenay (Sue Lloyd), there is a newspaper cutting pinned up. It is a Cookstrip – one of a series of strip cartoon-style recipes that IPCRESS author Len Deighton contributed to London's The Observer during the early- to mid-1960s. A collection of the strips was published in the UK in 1965 as Len Deighton's Action Cook Book, and in 1966 in the US as the Cookstrip Cook Book.
Nigel
Green and Michael Caine appeared in a number of films and TV episodes together,
including Zulu and Play Dirty. Zulu had been Caine's big break and he had been
cast-against-type as an aristocratic Lieutenant, while Green had been his Colour
Sergeant. In this film it was Green who is a Major to Caine's cockney Sergeant.
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 (as Oliver Macgreevy)
Freda Bamford -
Alice
Pauline Winter - Charlady
Anthony Blackshaw - Edwards
Barry
Raymond - Gray
David Glover - Chilcott-Oakes
Stanley Meadows - Inspector
Keightley
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