The Ipcress File

[sim16v]

On BBC2 now.

Rather a lot of classics running around in period

[Riley Blue]

The Mercedes ambulance for me please.

[Halmyre]

This must be one of my most-watched films. The scenes between Dalby and Ross are great, barely disguised hatred bubbling under the veneer of politeness. Palmer needs to let his coffee stand in the press for a few minutes before plunging it though.

[hondafanatic]

Halmyre said:

Palmer needs to let his coffee stand in the press for a few minutes before plunging it though.

This too has me cringing

[Riley Blue]

I noticed that he liked very weak coffee - and tinned mushrooms...

[Halb]

Missed it today, so I forget, the shot with the eggs, yOu may notice those aren't Caine's hands. Not sure if coffee/other shots are also hand close-ups

[Pericoloso]

I've seen this a few times too ,don't remember who the bad guy is though ,Dalby or Ross......

[Abbott]

Pericoloso said:

I've seen this a few times too ,don't remember who the bad guy is though ,Dalby or Ross......

Smack your hand on the projector stand and you will remember

[Halmyre]

Pericoloso said:

I've seen this a few times too ,don't remember who the bad guy is though ,Dalby or Ross......

Well, I'm not going to put up spoilers for a 53 year old film.

[Pericoloso]

I should have watched the whole film ,I turned over to watch the BBC football scores service from 2.45 onwards

and my team lost 4 - 0.

I'll wait for the next showing for the Dalby Ross conundrum.

[SpeedBash]

Never seen it - worth the watch?

Have a month to decide.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0074sv0/the...

[Pericoloso]

Definitely worth a watch ,good old 60s spy drama, deffo not in the James Bond slightly unbelievable category.

[Halb]

THe Ipcress File is in my top ten spy films and shall probably always remain so. As an example of pure a callan-like, gritty, dirty, ex-scumbag squaddie bottom of the stheap real-life 'spy' type.
It was also a Salzberg film. I've read Caine's autobiog, this was one of Caine's first big films.
Yes it's a 60's film, so it's dated, in more ways than one, but it's a cold war film and the height of the cold war was the 60s...now I'm gonna have to think on my top ten spy films.

[Pericoloso]

Do you mean Harry Saltzman ?....not Salzberg....

[Halb]

you expect me to talk, Perioscopy ?!

[Pericoloso]

Bond to Goldfinger said:

you expect me to talk, Perioscopy ?!

"No ,I expect you to die"....

[motco]

From the same era are 'Odessa File' with John Voight made some years later but still cold war period), and 'Funeral in Berlin' with Harry Palmer/Michael Caine again. These are so atmospheric and are redolent of the time.

[Halb]

Pericoloso said:

Bond to Goldfinger said:

you expect me to talk, Perioscopy ?!

"No ,I expect you to die"....

Operation Grandslam!

[Halmyre]

motco said:

From the same era are 'Odessa File' with John Voight made some years later but still cold war period), and 'Funeral in Berlin' with Harry Palmer/Michael Caine again. These are so atmospheric and are redolent of the time.

And king of gritty and atmospheric, 'The Spy Who Came In From The Cold'.

[P5BNij]

Halb said:

Missed it today, so I forget, the shot with the eggs, yOu may notice those aren't Caine's hands. Not sure if coffee/other shots are also hand close-ups

The hands belonged to Len Deighton

Definitely in my 'top ten', it's one of those films which I can happily watch over and over again, all the right ingredients are there somehow, the icing on the cake being John Barry's wonderful score.