The Ipcress File

Buy This Item The Ipcress File by Starz / Anchor Bay  Available from Amazon  $9.99  on 11-14-2008     In the spy-crazed film world of the 1960s, Len Deighton's antihero Harry Palmer burst onto the scene as an antidote to the James Bond films. Here was a British spy who had a working-class accent and horn-rimmed glasses and above all really didn't want to be a spy in the first place. As portrayed by Michael Caine, Palmer was the perfect antithesis to Sean Connery's 007. Unlike that of his globetrotting spy cousin, Palmer's beat is cold, rainy, dreary London, where he spends his days and nights in unheated flats spying on subversives. He does charm one lady, but she's no Pussy Galore, just a civil servant he works with, sent to keep an eye on him. Eventually he's assigned to get to the bottom of the kidnapping and subsequent "brain draining" of a nuclear physicist, all the while being reminded by his superiors that it's this or prison. Things begin to get pretty hairy for Harry. Produced by Harry Saltzman in his spare time between Bond movies, the film also features a haunting score by another Bond veteran, composer John Barry. <I>--Kristian St. Clair</I> Reader Reviews I thought $26.99 for FUNERAL IN BERLIN was robbery but this is even worse. Only a real low forehead would pay this much. Save your money. Sooner or later this will be available again -- and probably in Blu-Ray down the road -- and you will feel really, really stupid and for good reason.

The Ipcress File Available from Amazon Price: $9.99 Updated on 11-14-2008.

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