The Ipcress File (1965)

De voormalige dief Harry Palmer is nu (onvrijwillig) spion geworden. Hij krijgt de opdracht de vermiste doctor Radcliffe op te sporen, die evenals twee collega's voor hem, verdwenen is. De doctor heeft een dossier dat extreem gevaarlijk kan zijn voor de Westerse wereld. Het blijkt dat de vijand de doctor wil hersenspoelen, terwijl Harry's baas in het geheim met hen onderhandelt.

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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 super...
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ior, 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.
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Michael Caine plays master spy Harry Palmer, in this mystery thriller about an undercover gang who brainwash England's leading scientists.

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