Introduction The IPCRESS File is Len Deighton’s first spy novel, published in 1962. The story involves Cold War brainwashing, includes scenes in Lebanon and on an atoll for a United States atomic weapon test, as well as information about Joe One, the Soviet Union’s first atomic bomb. The story was made into a film in… Read More
Introduction Midnight in Saint Petersburg is a 1996 made-for-television thriller film starring Michael Caine for the fifth and final time as British secret agent Harry Palmer. It served as a sequel to Bullet to Beijing (1995), which had been released the year before, the two films having been shot back-to-back. Three previous films featuring Caine… Read More
Introduction Bullet to Beijing is a 1995 made-for-television film that continues the adventures of the fictional spy Harry Palmer, who appeared in the 1960s films The Ipcress File, Funeral in Berlin and Billion Dollar Brain, based on books by author Len Deighton. Though an alternative title is Len Deighton’s Bullet to Beijing, Deighton was not… Read More
Introduction Billion Dollar Brain is a 1967 British Technicolor espionage film directed by Ken Russell and based on the 1966 novel of the same name by Len Deighton. The film features Michael Caine as secret agent Harry Palmer, the anti-hero protagonist. The “brain” of the title is a sophisticated computer with which an anti-communist organisation… Read More
Introduction Funeral in Berlin is a 1966 British spy film directed by Guy Hamilton and based on the 1964 novel of the same name by Len Deighton. It is the second of three 1960s films starring Michael Caine as the character Harry Palmer that followed the characters from the initial film, The Ipcress File (1965).… Read More
Introduction The Ipcress File is a British cold war spy thriller television series set in 1963. Written by John Hodge and directed by James Watkins, it stars Joe Cole, Lucy Boynton and Tom Hollander. The series is a very loose adaptation of the 1962 novel The IPCRESS File by Len Deighton. The story has been… Read More
Introduction The Ipcress File is a British cold war spy thriller television series set in 1963. Written by John Hodge and directed by James Watkins, it stars Joe Cole, Lucy Boynton and Tom Hollander. The series is a very loose adaptation of the 1962 novel The IPCRESS File by Len Deighton. The story has been… Read More
Introduction The Ipcress File is a British cold war spy thriller television series set in 1963. Written by John Hodge and directed by James Watkins, it stars Joe Cole, Lucy Boynton and Tom Hollander. The series is a very loose adaptation of the 1962 novel The IPCRESS File by Len Deighton. The story has been… Read More
Introduction The Ipcress File is a British cold war spy thriller television series set in 1963. Written by John Hodge and directed by James Watkins, it stars Joe Cole, Lucy Boynton and Tom Hollander. The series is a very loose adaptation of the 1962 novel The IPCRESS File by Len Deighton. The story has been… Read More
Introduction The Ipcress File is a British cold war spy thriller television series set in 1963. Written by John Hodge and directed by James Watkins, it stars Joe Cole, Lucy Boynton and Tom Hollander. The series is a very loose adaptation of the 1962 novel The IPCRESS File by Len Deighton. The story has been… Read More
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