The Ipcress File ( 1965 )

The Ipcress File ( 1965 ) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Cannes Film Festival
Edgar Allan Poe Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
English ( DTS-HD Master Audio )
English ( Subtitles )
Portuguese ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
108 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1965 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Sidney J. Furie
Len Deighton

Written By:
Sidney J. Furie
Bill Canaway

Actors:
Michael Caine ..... Sergeant Harry Palmer
Nigel Green ..... Major Dalby, Counter-intelligence bureau
Guy Doleman ..... Colonel H.L. Ross, Ministry of Defense
Sue Lloyd ..... Agent Jean Courtney
Gordon Jackson ..... Agent Jock Carswell
Aubrey Richards ..... Dr. Radcliffe, Kidnapped from Train
Frank Gatliff ..... Bluejay aka Erik Ashley Grantby
Thomas Baptiste ..... Barney
Oliver MacGreevy ..... Housemartin, Bluejay's Chief of Staff
Freda Bamford ..... Alice, Dalby's Secretary
Pauline Winter ..... Charlady
Anthony Blackshaw ..... Edwards
Barry Raymond ..... Agent Gray
David Glover ..... Agent Chilcott-Oakes
Stanley Meadows ..... Inspector Pat Keightley

Synopsis:

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.

Ex-sergeant Harry Palmer is now working as a spy, and is investigating the disappearance of scientists and their top-secret files. During the investigation a tape turns up with the word 'Ipcress' written on it.

In London, a counter espionage agent deals with his own bureaucracy while investigating the kidnapping and brainwashing of British scientists.

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